In my experience with meditation the goal is to quiet your mind till it thinks of nothing. As you sit trying to think of nothing, thoughts arise. The goal is to not dwell on them but let them float away until new ones stop coming. Thich Nhat Han describes it as letting the idea bubbles [...]
This weekend is the Wildflower triathlon. It is my first half ironman race since last year.
I am feeling pretty confident about my bike and run. I swam today at Aquatic Park and my open water swimming is not where I would like it to be. Even though I am getting much more comfortable in the [...]
Run-on sentence of the day:
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who actually strive to do the deeds; [...]
So I went to my first yoga class ever last night. My thinking was that a yoga class would help me stretch out and recover from training weekend. It might also motivate me to stretch more often. The class I went to was along the lines of “kick your ass power yoga”. The poses were [...]
Last weekend was training weekend for both the spring wildflower TNT team and ironteam. We camped out at Lake San Antonio and ran the Wildflower triathlon course. It is a ton of fun with all the teams together and the camping helps everybody get to know each other. It’s also a good chance to see [...]
Last night I stayed up way too late geeking out with Google Earth on the Wildflower Course. It’s a ton of fun and it’s interesting to learn things about the area that aren’t on the race map. It seems so much more adventurous to think that we will be cycling through Williams Canyon instead [...]
I seem to be running more than riding these days. I think it is because running in the rain is more fun than riding in the rain. Riding in the rain takes so much concentration, looking out for oil slicks, debree and drivers with fogged windshields who can’t see you. Ever since I realized that [...]
The best rides start with a bump. I’m talking about a hill. Not a large hill but enough to get your blood moving on the way up and the wheels spinning on the way down. It reminds both your body and mind what is most fun about the bike and carries you through when [...]
The funny thing about triathlon is that triathlon races aren’t really that fun. Unlike mountain bike racing or cyclocross, triathlon for me isn’t really about the race itself. I don’t find myself smiling during a triathlon. Triathlon is all about training and suffering and what kind of shape I can get myself into. I keep [...]
We had our first practice triathlon today. It was a sprint distance at Treasure Island. It was confidence inspiring to do all three sports again. Most of my training up till now has involved either biking or running and occasionally “a brick” which is two sports back to back.
As usual I came out of the [...]