Team McAlister

I decided that my training was in need of some serious heart-pounding, lung- burning time on the bike.  Nothing like some intervals to get your blood pumping.  After a good warm up, I started some 1 minute all-out efforts with 2 minute recoveries in between.  The main lesson from today is that a whole bunch more of this kind of day is needed.  The original intention was to use some type of plan from Chris Carmichael, but poor planning resulted in just going out and pushing myself through a few laps.

Never having been a runner, I’m not all that familiar with the attendant injuries. For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to learn to distinguish between all the different sorts of pain that come with this sport. Sure my legs are going to be sore, my calves feel like they’re on fire about 60% of the time now. My upper leg muscles weren’t used to anything more strenuous than walking up a hill or an occasional bike ride. So there’s a certain amount of just shutting up and getting over it that I have to do. But the past few runs have had me worrying. All the info I can find points to shin splints, but fortunately at this point it’s not bad enough to warrant real recovery time.

I’m pretty sure that it’s my shoes’ fault. I’m running on neutral trail shoes when I definitely need at least a stability shoe, more likely a motion control, in the road variety. Maybe this week I’ll hit a few specialty running stores and get gait analyses and shoe advice. Until I can afford new shoes though, I’ll just have to back off on the running and maybe substitute biking. If it would just stop freaking raining all the time I’d put some miles on the ol’ Cannondale, but until that happens I’ll be on the stationary at the gym (ugh). Now’s as good a time as any to start swimming, I suppose, but I want to swim even less than I want to run.

Tags: equipment, injuries, running, Weather

So, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but it’s also been a long time since I’ve made any serious progress in my training. This is not the post to change that.

This is a post asking for help from our kind readers so that I can have my dream job. I need everyone to go to islandreefjob.com and rate my video highly. Every view and every star will bring me that much closer to getting the best job in the world.

Thank you for all of your support, I look forward to training with the Makos in Australia soon!

P.S.- Though my training hasn’t really moved to a new level, I have gotten better at the training I’ve been doing. TRX never gets easier, but I’ve been increasing the resistance a little each class. I’ve also been getting more confident in Krav Maga and can endure a little longer with each class.

Tags: australia, dream job, help, Krav Maga, mako shark, TRX