Welcome 2010. After spending the past three months opening up Exygon health and Fitness, the 2010 training year has began! Dusted off the bike with a nice 45 mile ride yesterday. The running scene has been moving, I have logged about 100 miles thanks to the new Sunday running group. Its going to be a great year:
Triathlons
Trail running
Hiking
Open water swimming
Kayaks and more!

John and I planned another ride for today after our ride last weekend.  Around Wednesday, he asked if some of his friends could join us and if one of them could use my road bike….not a problem, the more the merrier.  WOW, what an interesting ride that was.  Dr. T ran off the road when two dogs starting chasing us, everyone’s rear end was throbbing, and it was the first ride for both of them.

We ended up getting 30 miles in going to China, Tx and back.  Despite having to pray to get these 3 rookies home alive, it was a great time.  Hopefully, we have a few more people who will consider adopting this lifestyle.

Laters,

Triman

CrossFit Beaumont is coming soon! Neal came down and served up a taste of what is to come this past weekend at Central Park here in Beaumont. It was a GREAT workout and everyone should look into trying out CrossFit. It is another option for SETX to get fit!

Deadlift PR this past sunday! 335lbs.

This is where I will be for my 31st birthday…

0°40′50″S 78°26′16″W

More information to follow. The training begins now…

So the swelling, soreness, and purpleness in my foot are actually just a bye product of the damage I did to my calf 1.5 weeks ago at rugby practice.

Doc figures Quantico just did some more damage to calf and that the bleeding from that damage is just settling in my foot.

So it is back to RICE for me, getting a big bucket tomorrow so I can just put half my leg in there, and going to start wrapping it at night.

The keys here are…

1. I was right not to worry.
2. Having a student health services where you can see a sports medicine doc with about 2 hours notice is AWESOME
3. I now have a clearance to start riding and rehabbing my calf/leg/ankle. Exercise will just help the built up blood get out of there faster.
4. I have to focus on TP, ice, and elevating this thing so it can heal and I can really start to rebuild.

So here is hoping this is my last injury for quite some time… after all I have a mountain/volcano to climb in a few months and I can’t be the weakest link on my rope team. Whoops. That’s another announcement for another time.

it only takes 1:59 seconds to cook 2 fried eggs from carton to plate?  That’s right, and people say they don’t have time to eat breakfast or cook at home.  That is faster than the McDonald’s drive thru!  A few pictures from this mornings 6am cross fit workout with my new Vibram 5 finger shoes…..

Nice Shoes!

Please hold your applause.....

Applaud now!

It was early, you have to do something to get things going …..thats for you SWR!

Nope, this isn’t a Daniel Day Lewis news item… but I think it may be time for me to see someone about this foot.

Click HERE photo for more exciting leprosy pics…

One of these is not like the other.

Purple and black and blue oh my.

Hi all, I am doing great. Philly and school are treating me well.

However, I haven’t been on a real non-stationary bike since I got here due to INJURIES. Yes, multiple.

First week I was here I played flag football and jacked up the tendons in the bottom of my foot. Then last Monday I tweaked my calf at rugby practice and could barely walk. And then Friday at Quantico I did something to my foot/ankle that has left my foot swollen and purple. Aka tore something and there was internal bleeding. I am guessing that sometime during the obstacle course I twisted, hit, or just generally injured my ankle. Fun times.

So hopefully this post will break my current curse and I can heal and get back on the bike. Here’s hoping.

Ok. Got the theme mostly recovered. Put my images back in place.

Can anyone (Tyler, Linds, Kirs) with photos that got lost email them to me?

As always, if you see anything that is broken please email me.

More bad nutrition advice from runner’s world.  It seems that endurance athletes, specifically the ones that write for the magazines, can’t seem to let go of the grains.  Follow this link to and look at the recommendations: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-242-300–13284-0,00.html.  The only meat listed is……bacon.?  WTF!

And I saw this link on the website for the inaugural marathon that will be run in Beaumont next May.  There will be lots of beginners running this who are being led in the wrong direction with this info.

Although grains may be great for feeding a large mass of people very cheaply during times of famine, they are not optimal for athletes seeking peak performance.  For a better look at how athletes should eat for peak perfomance, including endurance athletes, get a copy of the Paleo Diet for Athletes by Cordain and Friel.