today was another short 4 km Trail Race , I had the option to do 8 km or 4 km, I decided to do the short Option and the Plan was, to run really fast and it worked out the Way I wanted it .
Trail runs tend to be a bit tougher than Road runs anyway and it was slippery at certain areas and a huge amount of People which actually slowed me down once or twice. I think this is the first time that this has happened to me, I'm usually the one who slows others down. I gave it everything during the run and I had to walk once or twice but that was OK for me as well.
I just had a look at my stats this month and so far I have done only this month 241 km on exercise , most of it comes from cycling but 28 km from this is running, not even remotely enough on the running side but I'm getting there. I don't think I have ever done in my life so much exercise and I actually enjoy it quite a bit.If this should be my so called Midlife crisis then I have to say , why didn't it come earlier ?
I have a huge amount of Fun , I'm energetic and I love the Challenges I have given myself .
Next stop will be a couple more Trail Races and then in April my first real Adventure Race.
Training's wise , I'm looking forward to more Cycle rides with the Triathlon group and I'm seriously considering to do a triathlon Trainings Camp over Easter.
somebody who has started to enjoy Exercise and actually got hooked on doing Triathlons
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Cycling, Running and a Triathlon Club
Yesterday was a another "long" Cycling Ride with the Triathlon Club that I want to join. We did a 40km Ride which included one or two quite though Hills but I have to say I really enjoyed most of that Ride.
In the Evening was the new members Meet and Greet Event from the Triathlon Club and I got quite a few nice tips , it seems I have found my Triathlon Club.
I will order now the Club gear in a Couple of Days and I guess putting it on, during a Race will put a tiny bit extra pressure on,
I don't really want to finish second last in Club Gear, just because I might not have trained enough,
that would be a bit too embarrassing.
This will be another motivation to do good regular training, which meant that I was out for a short run this morning.
I also have realized that it is only 15 Weeks until my first planned Olympic Triathlon and I'm not remotely in a shape for that one yet.
At the same time I know that I'm improving all the time , I'm tracking my results with Endomondo and I checked now through the History , I'm getting faster , I do longer distances, and I do a lot more cross training , if I can keep this up then a Olympic Triathlon in June should be possible
In the Evening was the new members Meet and Greet Event from the Triathlon Club and I got quite a few nice tips , it seems I have found my Triathlon Club.
I will order now the Club gear in a Couple of Days and I guess putting it on, during a Race will put a tiny bit extra pressure on,
I don't really want to finish second last in Club Gear, just because I might not have trained enough,
that would be a bit too embarrassing.
This will be another motivation to do good regular training, which meant that I was out for a short run this morning.
I also have realized that it is only 15 Weeks until my first planned Olympic Triathlon and I'm not remotely in a shape for that one yet.
At the same time I know that I'm improving all the time , I'm tracking my results with Endomondo and I checked now through the History , I'm getting faster , I do longer distances, and I do a lot more cross training , if I can keep this up then a Olympic Triathlon in June should be possible
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Discussions between the Couch Potato and the Racer
The Couch Potato and the Race is the same Person ,ME . The Part of me which is the Couch Potato was today very loud and very annoying ,it tried to stop the Racer in me, nearly the whole Day.
Sounds Crazy ? Maybe it is, but here are my internal Discussion I had today with myself.
Today I was signed up for my first 10km Race of 2012, the Race was in the afternoon , rather unusual, but it should not make a difference it's still 10k.
So I woke up this morning and the Couch Potato immediately tried to convince the Racer to chicken out of the Race , first argument : Your Back is still to bad, if you run it will hurt more .
Racer, yes maybe you are right but it feels OK today and I at least can start and if it starts to hurt then I always can quit.
Couch Potato now : but it is cold and rains out there, you will get sick if you do it . Racer , I can wear a rain Jacket, but yeah I might not do it , you are right , the Weather is bad my Back is still not OK .
Couch Potato : Yippee , ten minutes later the Racer in me : are you crazy? If I don't go today, I again will end up sitting the whole Day around doing nothing.
Couch Potato : Yes, and what is wrong with that ? Racer , shut up, we are going .
And the Racer won this argument , I'm writing this, after I successfully finished my first 10k of the Season , yes it did hurt a bit and it was cold but I'm proud of myself that I did it .
This is for everyone out there who has this Couch Potato Daemon as well, I always have to fight against it, but I have to say these Day's the Racer has won more often then the Couch Potato.
The best Way for me to win the Argument is to show on social Media ( Facebook / Twitter etc ) that I will do a Race, as soon as I have written this on a Public Site, then it means to me a serious Commitment and that trick works for Races and events ( I'm still working on the regular Training bit ) .
The best Example for this is, when I did last Summer my Night Hike , I was scared about that Hike , I was seriously in doubt, that I would be able to finish a 33 Km night Hike , so to prevent me to chicken out of that, I posted like crazy on Facebook and Twitter and I did the Night Hike and i was telling everyone what I had signed up for.
It was the toughest thing I ever did, but I did it and the Couch Potato in me was silenced quite a bit. however that was not the biggest Surprise.
The biggest Surprise came after the Hike, when I told the Guy who guided us through the Night, that I actually had wanted to quit at the First Checkpoint but something in me told me to continue ( probably the Racer ), his simple answer was : I wouldn't have let you Quit this, you posted so much about the Hike on Facebook/Twitter, from that I took it that you really wanted to do that.
So Couch Potato for the Rest of the evening you can take over but tomorrow we are going for a Bicycle Ride .....
Sounds Crazy ? Maybe it is, but here are my internal Discussion I had today with myself.
Today I was signed up for my first 10km Race of 2012, the Race was in the afternoon , rather unusual, but it should not make a difference it's still 10k.
So I woke up this morning and the Couch Potato immediately tried to convince the Racer to chicken out of the Race , first argument : Your Back is still to bad, if you run it will hurt more .
Racer, yes maybe you are right but it feels OK today and I at least can start and if it starts to hurt then I always can quit.
Couch Potato now : but it is cold and rains out there, you will get sick if you do it . Racer , I can wear a rain Jacket, but yeah I might not do it , you are right , the Weather is bad my Back is still not OK .
Couch Potato : Yippee , ten minutes later the Racer in me : are you crazy? If I don't go today, I again will end up sitting the whole Day around doing nothing.
Couch Potato : Yes, and what is wrong with that ? Racer , shut up, we are going .
And the Racer won this argument , I'm writing this, after I successfully finished my first 10k of the Season , yes it did hurt a bit and it was cold but I'm proud of myself that I did it .
This is for everyone out there who has this Couch Potato Daemon as well, I always have to fight against it, but I have to say these Day's the Racer has won more often then the Couch Potato.
The best Way for me to win the Argument is to show on social Media ( Facebook / Twitter etc ) that I will do a Race, as soon as I have written this on a Public Site, then it means to me a serious Commitment and that trick works for Races and events ( I'm still working on the regular Training bit ) .
The best Example for this is, when I did last Summer my Night Hike , I was scared about that Hike , I was seriously in doubt, that I would be able to finish a 33 Km night Hike , so to prevent me to chicken out of that, I posted like crazy on Facebook and Twitter and I did the Night Hike and i was telling everyone what I had signed up for.
It was the toughest thing I ever did, but I did it and the Couch Potato in me was silenced quite a bit. however that was not the biggest Surprise.
The biggest Surprise came after the Hike, when I told the Guy who guided us through the Night, that I actually had wanted to quit at the First Checkpoint but something in me told me to continue ( probably the Racer ), his simple answer was : I wouldn't have let you Quit this, you posted so much about the Hike on Facebook/Twitter, from that I took it that you really wanted to do that.
So Couch Potato for the Rest of the evening you can take over but tomorrow we are going for a Bicycle Ride .....
Thursday, February 9, 2012
random thoughts of an Alpha1
today I thought might be good Day to talk again a bit about Alpha 1 ( Antitrypsin deficiency) also known as the Viking Disease .As mentioned before I am a so called MZ which means I have one normal gene ( M ) and one abnormal Gene ( Z) . Antitrypsin gets created in the Lungs gets into the Blood stream and protects the Lungs.
Without that Stuff you will very likely get COPD , Emphysema , shortly put, very nasty Lung and maybe also Liver disease.
I don't know if I ever get COPD or anything like that, no one one this planet can tell me, MZ shouldn't get any of those Disease unfortunately there are out the enough MZ who have huge health Issues , so since I don't know if I get it, I at least try to look after my health as much as possible.
I know that a lot of MZ are ignoring that there is a potential of getting seriously ill and even they know that they have one bad gene they for example still smoke ,yes it is scary to think I might get Emphysema but I have learned I can't ignore, took me actually more then 10 Years to understand that ignorance is not the answer .
So these Days I try to life healthy , I avoid pollution , no one in my surroundings is allowed to smoke , I try to eat healthy ( Work in Progress ) and I try to do regular Exercise and these Days I actually really enjoy doing Exercise , even though I'm the slowest in the running pack.
When I did last Weekend the first Cycle trip with the Triathlon Group I was and I'm still very existed about it ,not only because it was fun, but also for the first time this was something where I was for most of the time able to cycle with the pack.
Basically my breathing stayed normal and that gives me a huge boost in regards to Triathlon and fitness in general, I defiantly have a problem when it comes to running and I will know more in 2 month time, when I have my annual checkup but I guess for the moment I can keep up with cycling.
Time to start the "racing" Season , on Saturday I will have my first 10km race of the Season , have I trained enough = No , will I be able to run the whole distance = No , will I be one of the slowest one or even last = yes maybe , will I enjoy it = YES
Without that Stuff you will very likely get COPD , Emphysema , shortly put, very nasty Lung and maybe also Liver disease.
I don't know if I ever get COPD or anything like that, no one one this planet can tell me, MZ shouldn't get any of those Disease unfortunately there are out the enough MZ who have huge health Issues , so since I don't know if I get it, I at least try to look after my health as much as possible.
I know that a lot of MZ are ignoring that there is a potential of getting seriously ill and even they know that they have one bad gene they for example still smoke ,yes it is scary to think I might get Emphysema but I have learned I can't ignore, took me actually more then 10 Years to understand that ignorance is not the answer .
So these Days I try to life healthy , I avoid pollution , no one in my surroundings is allowed to smoke , I try to eat healthy ( Work in Progress ) and I try to do regular Exercise and these Days I actually really enjoy doing Exercise , even though I'm the slowest in the running pack.
When I did last Weekend the first Cycle trip with the Triathlon Group I was and I'm still very existed about it ,not only because it was fun, but also for the first time this was something where I was for most of the time able to cycle with the pack.
Basically my breathing stayed normal and that gives me a huge boost in regards to Triathlon and fitness in general, I defiantly have a problem when it comes to running and I will know more in 2 month time, when I have my annual checkup but I guess for the moment I can keep up with cycling.
Time to start the "racing" Season , on Saturday I will have my first 10km race of the Season , have I trained enough = No , will I be able to run the whole distance = No , will I be one of the slowest one or even last = yes maybe , will I enjoy it = YES
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Today was the Day of Cycling
Today was my First Time that I was cycling with a Group, organised by a Triathlon Club, most of us were beginners and so the pace was nice and Easy, have to say enjoyed it much more than I thought I would .
The Weather was always on the Borderline of Rain and it was around 6-8 Degrees Celsius. The Ride actually felt nice and easy for the first 40 km , after that I was gone and Dead, the last 10 km was pure hard Work.
My Back is at the moment absolutely killing me and I suspect I will have really sore Legs tomorrow , but when that Pain is gone I will look forward to the next ride in 2 weeks time.
Have to say the Experienced Guy's who looked after us were extremely nice and they gave some good advice , really happy with that , so I guess I have found my Triathlon Club now as well
Would love to write more about the Spin but I'm too tired now , more in the next couple of Days
The Weather was always on the Borderline of Rain and it was around 6-8 Degrees Celsius. The Ride actually felt nice and easy for the first 40 km , after that I was gone and Dead, the last 10 km was pure hard Work.
My Back is at the moment absolutely killing me and I suspect I will have really sore Legs tomorrow , but when that Pain is gone I will look forward to the next ride in 2 weeks time.
Have to say the Experienced Guy's who looked after us were extremely nice and they gave some good advice , really happy with that , so I guess I have found my Triathlon Club now as well
Would love to write more about the Spin but I'm too tired now , more in the next couple of Days
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