By Mark on February 14, 2010
Lots Of Watts
I just got done with a workout on the old Kurt Kinetic trainer in the basement that I was planning on doing all of this last week. It looked like the weather was going to be cold/snowy today so I decided I’d test my fitness by doing a hard 60 minute interval to [...]
Posted in Bike, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged aerobics, FTP test, Heart rate based training, Training with power
By Mark on February 7, 2010
Heart Rate Is Key To Fitness
One of the best ways to build your fitness and increase your ability to workout better, is by using your heart rate to set your workouts. I’ve been training with a heart rate monitor for nearly 27 years and have found it to be very helpful. Back in the Fall [...]
Posted in Fitness For The Beer Lover, Heart rate based training, Training, Training Tips | Tagged Heart rate based training, maximum heart rate, training zones
By Mark on January 16, 2010
Alright, 2009 is in the books and I finally got all of my rides entered and logged. The result is the following video which shows a little more detail of all the bike riding I did in 2009, my best year yet as far as distance and time spent riding. It was also a record [...]
Posted in Bike, Training, Training Updates
By Mark on January 11, 2010
An Abominable Day
We had a rare snow in Atlanta that actually stuck around due to the cold weather. Cold never stops me from using the Big Green Egg so I fired it up in 20 degree weather to grill some T-Bone steaks. Since it was a special day weather-wise I decided to try a potentially [...]
Posted in 3 Mugs, 5 Mugs, Beer, Beer and Food Pairings, Ride Reports, Russian Imperial Stout, Styles | Tagged Great Divide Brewing, Oak Aged Yeti
By Mark on November 30, 2009
The Last Week Of The Month
Sorry I didn’t get an update for two weeks ago up but the Thanksgiving holiday got in the way a bit. I’ll summarize that week plus this most recent week all in one exciting post!:
Week ended November 22nd
Time Spent Training- 5:28 (bike only)
Time In Sweet Spot- 117 minutes
Miles Ridden- 102
Miles [...]
Posted in Bike, Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training Tips, Training with power
By Mark on November 15, 2009
The Best Laid Plans
Well, this week ended up not being what I wanted but there wasn’t much I could do about it. I had business meetings/dinners Monday and Tuesday so I was planning on riding inside Wed and Thurs then outside on the weekend. But, we had a ton of rain on Tuesday (4+ inches) [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates | Tagged walking to work, yoga
By Mark on November 11, 2009
Sorry for the delay with this. I was hoping to get it posted Tuesday evening but we became preoccupied with some minor flooding in our basement as a result of the 4+ inches of rain we got yesterday! We were able to prevent any damage to the drywall, etc. but we had to stay up [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on November 2, 2009
Back On The Trainer
This past week was the 1st one this Fall where I have done indoor trainer workouts. I rode the trainer Tues-Thurs. Not big rides but 30-40 minutes each night in the 240-255 watt range, which gave me a big boost in “sweet spot” time. If you notice below I had 30% more [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on October 27, 2009
Week In Review
Ok, It’s been a while (7 months I’m embarrassed to say) but I’m going to start up my weekly training reviews again. These are a way for you people who are interested in fitness training to see how I am doing on a week to week basis and maybe get some ideas. It [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged functional threshold power, Powertap, Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on October 19, 2009
A Frosty Fall Day In Atlanta
Today was the first day this Fall that there was frost in the yard. I don’t know if it was “officially” the first frost but it was 32 degrees or so in our neighborhood and it was perfectly clear with no wind. It definitely felt like Fall and I wanted [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Personal, Training | Tagged walking to work, weight bearing exercise
