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April 3, 2010: Team in Training 60 mile ride

mark — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:13:13 +0000

Well, what do you know a new ride this past Saturday. I did like this ride a lot. It proved a lot of things to me for the last couple of weeks of training though.

We started our way at the Carlsbad Pointsettia Train Station. It was a new location to me but I remember riding by this train station so many times now on the last couple of rides we have had. Now we are starting here. I didn’t know much of the terrain at all on this ride. I remember seeing so many new things and sites I did enjoy on the ride.

We headed south for a small distance to go to the restrooms at the nearest Jack in a Box and talked a little before we took our morning ride. It is funny sometimes how we always seem to be the last group to leave but in the end we are always first. We followed Avenida Encinitas till we hit Carlsbad Blvd.

Onto Carlsbad Blvd and we headed north for a quite a distance and followed into S. Pacific Street. We then got onto the San Luis River trail that seemed like a large bike and running path that was single lane and had traffic coming both ways. There were a lot of people on this pathway. I liked it though. It gave a new scenery to look at and it proved a little tough with the headwind we were experiencing here. We did do a lot of changing here on the front. This pathway followed the 78 freeway east and we took this for a good distance till we got to College Blvd and made our way to N. River Road.

N. River Road was a different road. It seemed similar to roads in Rancho Santa Fe. There was a lot of rolling hills here. I remember going up and down a good amount of them. We followed it to Mission Rd and then back onto Old River Road and then to McDonalds where our SAG was stationed at. We met with the Ace Team riders. We were in Bonsal, I didn’t know of this area at all. It seems that doing all this training is great and has many new sights to see around San Diego.

After the SAG, I asked about our new path. We were going to be doing some climbing. I decided to keep a mindset of taking it easy on the hills so that I wouldn’t get an overall burning in my legs. I had to keep my heart rate down. We headed onto W Lilac Road and it proved to be a tough hill with different grades. At the top it intersected the 15 freeway on a bridge that I seem to drive by on the way to Temecula. I always wondered how to get onto it and now I know.

We took a break at the top and then rode down onto Old Highway 395. We were screaming down this hill at 40 mph max. As this road connects into Champagne Blvd, I knew I was in for it. This climb was a steady grade that was something around 3 miles long. I think it took me around 15 minutes to get to the top where we had another SAG. I was tired. I am glad the weather was nice or it would have been worse. We had a long rest and waited for one of the other team mates as he was having a hard time that day.

We eventually got going again and left him at the SAG and continued our way west again through Deer Springs Road. We continued our way through N. Twin Oaks Valley Road and followed that as we crossed the 78 freeway. We made our way and got onto W San Marcos Blvd. and continued to head west and get back to the coast. This area was nice. It was just some rolling hills and we got to our last sag with about 10 miles left next to a Carls Jr.

We followed San Marcos Blvd. till it intersected with El Camino Real and followed that and then we got onto Cannon Road where we saw our last hill of the day. It wasn’t too long of a hill but it proved to be steep and tough. I was burning my legs at the top with some standing and I knew that we were almost home. We crossed the 5 freeway and got back onto Avenida Encinas and got to the parking lot. It was a tough day.

I know now that I will be prepared next week for the ride. I know it will be tough but with some riding I will do this week, hopefully I can do better.

Insanity Results Day 63 youtube video

mark — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:44:20 +0000

Feb 20, 2010: Spin Class

mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:51:39 +0000

We were not able to get outside again for a ride this past Saturday due to the weather. I am beginning to think that we won’t be doing much cycling outside. I am kinda bummed because I wanted to get outside. We just did a spin class. I think my butt needs to break in faster though. The new seat helped and also did the new gel liner that I bought but it still doesn’t feel quite right.

I might need to get the seat at the correct angle and position. I hate to change anything on my bike because it might always change my cycling. It was crazy at the spin class because it seemed like everyone was there. We had about 30 or so people in the intermediate class and about 20 people in the advanced class.

I ended up going to trek after the spin class to get me some new livestrong bands and also to look around. I also picked up some chamous butter. I wonder if it might help at all. We will see!

one hundred pushups: Week 3 Day 1 repeat

mark — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:38:47 +0000

I managed to get this workout in yesterday. I did them pretty early in the evening and not wanting to beat the bush and wait till later that evening after dinner. I was supposed to also go to a Team in Training spin class that night but I didn’t eventually go because it was raining and I didn’t want to deal with a wet body and wet bike in the class. I know I should have gone. Maybe this Thursday will be better.

The workout was easier than I expected. I don’t know what will be for tomorrow though. The reps really do go up. I did rest a lot between sets so I don’t know if that might have helped also. I think it was over 120 seconds between sets. The last set was tough but I slowly got the last 10 in. I guess we will see what happens next time for tomorrow on the new workout. Hopefully it won’t be so tough and I can finish the last set.

workout: 20,25,15,15,25
actual: 20,25,15,15,30

100 pushups: February 5, 2010

mark — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:32:18 +0000

This is a tough workout no matter what. I can’t seem to get all the reps in the last set. I wonder if I am supposed to be going to a lower week or just get to something that I can finish. I am feeling that I am getting stronger though. I think I will probably have to repeat Week 3. Even though this week is technically my week 3 I should be doing Week 3 I guess. I probably should be posting some videos along with them to see where I am and to show the peeps out there my progress.

Team in Training seems promising. I need to get on my letters and to create those and to also mail some of them out.

100 pushups Week 2 Day 2

mark — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:51:42 +0000

That workout was tough yesterday. My rep counts were supposed to be: 22,30,20,20,28. I was able to do 22,30,18,20,18. I didn’t read that I had to take 2 minute breaks in which I probably should have. I think I would have been able to pump out a little bit more reps if I did.

I think my progress is getting better. I have gotten a little bit stronger and still been able to keep up with the workouts. I just don’t know if I will do it in 6 weeks, but I guess I am ahead of the schedule so I am in some type of advantage. I guess this wasn’t going to be easy so I just have to work at it to get things done.

I missed my workout yesterday for Team In Training on the bike doing some spinning. I wanted to go but my car is having trouble.

It looks like it might rain on Saturday. I am a little bit skeptical though. I don’t like being in the rain running or on a bike. I guess we will see how it goes though.

100 pushups Week 1 Day 3, Week 2 Day 1 and stuff

mark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:03:57 +0000

This is a tough workout. I do believe that I am getting stronger but not like the reps are on the workout. Maybe its just me. The instructions do say that you repeat till you can get to the reps that are shown on the workouts. I will continue to do them but will see how they play out.

I went to my first meeting with the new Team and we talked about a lot of things regarding bikes and other things. I was supposed to go to my first spin class today but my car is acting up. I wanted to go but couldn’t make it. Maybe later this week or next.

I just found out that I couldn’t make the Rock N Roll half marathon. It is the same day as my century bike ride. I wanted to run with my brother. We did a training run together this past Saturday that went really well.

100 pushups: Week 1 Day 2

mark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:21:16 +0000

I did another day of 100 pushups. I continued with the Week 3 day 1 numbers to keep me up there. I did a little bit more this time though. The sets were as follows: 14, 18, 14, 14, 20. I was only able to do 14, 18, 14, 14, 10. It was a little bit more this time but I felt sore throughout the whole thing. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be but still tough nonetheless.

I feel that I am strong but its hard to tell if I am getting stronger. I haven’t done any pushups in a long time so it is hard to say where my strength is at the moment.

I am going to sign up for the rock n roll half marathon. My two brothers are doing it and I think it is a good thing we are doing this together as a group. I want to help them out as much as possible. Especially my older brother who doesn’t run at all. I think he needs some help to get him through it since it is his first!

I want to recruit some other friends that may want to complete their own first half marathon or run. I have a friend that might want to do it and so I want to help him out also.

100 push ups

mark — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:59:31 +0000

I decided to take a look at the 100 pushups website. I tried the first week. My initial test said that I was supposed to be at week 3. After doing all the sets yesterday, I feel that I need to start this week as a week 1 instead of a week 3. I did my best though. The first day required me to do 14, 18, 14, 14 and 20 for the final set with 60 seconds of rest in between each set.

My legs are still sore but feeling a lot better now since Sunday’s marathon. I need to continue to stretch.

Insanity Day 62 Max Cardio Conditioning and Cardio Abs

mark — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:41:46 +0000

This workout was brutal this morning. My fan cut out on me and I didn’t have enough energy to pull it through. I always think that doing a workout first thing in the morning is tough after waking up in the morning because you don’t have any real energy to work off of. If it wasn’t so intense of a workout then yes but since Insanity demands a lot out of you then maybe having a breakfast is better.

So I have one more day which only includes my fit test. Then I have to take pictures and get measurements for my final results. The only is that I want to get great results on the fit test but I should do like I did it on the first day. Which meant to do it exactly how the video was. No extra breaks.