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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Reasons you suck at racing/training

Ok that is a bit of an exaggeration of a very good blog post but how else was I going to suck you in.

8 Reasons athletes don't achieve success  from Fast at Forty A lot of truth.  I'm guilty of A LOT of the 8 reasons.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Creative Training

With my work schedule its hard to get a lot of miles in.  I'm kinda maxed out at 50-55 per week.  I've been kicking around the idea of running to work.  This being a transitional week & I'm back on weekends I figured it was time for a test run. 

If it isn't too bad I'm going to try & run commute a couple times per week.  Will give me 7 miles each way.  That should let me bump my mileage up.  I'd like to try a hundred mile week just for the Hell of it.  Haven't done that since college.  110 was my all time max.

I doubled up on the amount of food I brought to work last night so didn't have to lug that.  I did forget to bring an extra set of clothes so had to bring that but those fit in my GoLite running fanny pack.  Next time I'll plan better so I carry less.

Had a pretty good head wind which made the hills at the end of the run hard.  I think I managed around a 7:30 avg.  Will have to wait till I download the file. 

Now the interesting part of the test.  Working all night & then running home.  All the hills are in the 1st half going home so have that going for me. 

My Damn head phones lost sound in one side again.  I don't know why but that is how all my headphones die.  This was a cheap pair & it showed since they barely lasted a month or so.  I've had 4 or 5 pair die this way I'm the last couple of years.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Garmin Connect & Ubuntu 11.10

Sine switching to Linux i have had to make some adjustments.  Garmin doesn't support Linux with their Garmin Connect feature.  Not really a problem since I can manually upload workouts from my Garmin 210.  If I have a bunch stored it becomes a bit of a hassle.

I found a nice little Firefox plugin that works like the regular Garmin plug in.  Andreas Diesner wrote the plugin.  On his website he has great instructions how to use the plugin.  Highly recommended if you use Linux & have a Garmin device.

A funny little bug with the Garmin site while using Linux.  When I use Firefox the note function in calendar doesn't work.  But if I use Chrome to browse the site it works.  Hopefully Andreas writes a Chrome plugin so I don't have to use Firefox at all.

http://www.andreas-diesner.de/garminplugin/doku.php
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