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I’ve talked to my wife occasionally about the science between your heart rate while exercising and different levels of fitness. But this has always been an abstract discussion. No more. This past Christmas, my wife got me a Garmin Forerunner. Mine came with a heart rate monitor, but you can also get them with a [...] Read the full article
With the current celebrations of Darwin’s birthday, a recent story about how we humans have evolved for running long distances seems to be appropriate. It makes me feel better about the fact that I’m anything but fleet afoot, as well. The ongoing mantra among my group of running buddies is that humans were built to [...] Read the full article
I ran across an interesting website today, ran by Nike. They are sponsoring an event called “The Human Race 10K.” They are billing it as the first global 10K race. It looks to me like the goal is to get 1 million runners to race simultaneously in 25 cities around the world. If you can’t make it to one [...] Read the full article
I completed a half-marathon. That means I traversed, in a period of just over 2 hours, a distance of 13.1 miles. I completed the training to meet this goal. To manage that task, I went from running 12 miles per week to 25 miles per week. I felt like I had really managed to accomplish [...] Read the full article
Again, I went looking for a training plan, this time for a half-marathon. This time, I settled on the plan from Half.com. Why? To be honest, because it looked relatively simple. With only one long day per week, I could do that run early on Saturday morning, and the rest of the workouts could be [...] Read the full article
Well, I guess at this point, it’s time to ‘fess up regarding where I stood. After all, in order to prove I’d made progress, I’d have to “weigh in” with some regularity. On the day I started training, my weight was 242 lb. To put that in perspective, I’m 6’2″ tall, and at the time [...] Read the full article
Luckily, another guy I work with was thinking about getting in better shape and we were near the same level. So, we searched the web for a beginner’s training plan and stumbled upon the Cool Running, Couch to 5-K training plan. This plan was perfect for beginners, since it focused almost exclusively on time of [...] Read the full article
So we’ve established that up to this point in my life, I had never tried “weight loss.” I had generally been pretty healthy and slim. This was mostly a by-product of having been very active. I had played basketball or tennis a few times a week, so never really thought about the matter. Now I had [...] Read the full article
