Category: Off the Bike

  • Technology and Exercise : 13/100

    Technology and Exercise : 13/100

    Do I need to have an Apple Watch? Absolutely not. Does it help me stay organized and motivated to stay active? Totally. Completing the circles is a daily habit so I put them in the center spot. To the right is Workouts so I can click into there and start a workout. Back to the…

  • Rest Day! 11/100

    Rest Day! 11/100

    The existential dilemma of blogging. My colleague, Jon, talks about the difficulty of writing about your life’s personal details and publishing them for the world to read: I have this mental block when it comes to sharing the mundane details of my life in public on the internet. The mental block has nothing to do…

  • Avoiding Fatigue : 8/100

    Avoiding Fatigue : 8/100

    Well this post ended up feeling a little like a lecture. Maybe I am grumpy today. 😂 Happy Friday yall! Fatigue and Training: Fatigue can be described as a lack of energy or motivation, both physically or mentally. It can be caused by a lack of activity, and also by an excess of activity. Stress…

  • Keeping fit : 6/100

    Keeping fit : 6/100

    When we hit the road 6 years ago Kate and I had just completed our second of two half Ironman triathlons. We had trained with a coach for about 8 months. As a result we were in possibly the best shape of our lives. Once we hit the road our workout volume dropped significantly. I…

  • Manic Monday | 4/100

    Manic Monday | 4/100

    So far the writing in the morning habit is falling off the face of a cliff pretty well here. I am thinking about writing all day though so that counts for something, right? 😎 Watching: Listening to: Reading: What the Happiest Countries in the World Have in Common – Among – “While rankings are based…

  • So it begins! 1/100

    So it begins! 1/100

    Big day, today! Its day 1 of the 100 days of blogging challenge. I have reached out to my coworkers to join me in writing a blog post everyday for 100 days. We start today, May 1st 2020, and continue till August 9th, 2020. So far these are the other sites involved in the challenge:Jon’s…

  • Body-weight Wednesday

    Body-weight Wednesday

    Listening to: Fitbit story of how it came to be on How I built that. Fun listen about the start of a big brand that got clobbered by the Apple Watch. Product Strategy from the Rework podcast. Always interesting to hear how people design and build things. One take away for me here is setting…

  • Recommended Routine

    Recommended Routine

    Ok Monday lets go! Its a day off today. Well not from working-out but from working. Since we moved back to Colorado over the weekend it seemed like taking an extra day to settle in is a nice touch. Plus there is a lot of work to do on the land, and family and friends…

  • Core then TGIF

    Core then TGIF

    Featured Image from Dustin CC BY-NC 2.0 Happy Friday! Tomorrow we drive the trailer north to our land in Southwest Colorado. Getting pretty excited about that. Tomorrow we will drive about 6.5 hours to Cameron AZ just north of Flagstaff. Its a trading post/gas station town near the east entrance to the Grand Canyon. We…

  • Strength Day Wednesday

    Strength Day Wednesday

    Heyo! Happy hump day and lets get right into the strength training day. Before I started this current 12 week cycling training program I was pretty consistently doing a 3 day a week bodyweight training program. I have a love then not so love relationship with strength training in general. I love that it makes…