Sports massage reveals muscle tightness. Muscle tightness is a symptom of weakness! Advice to First Time Ironman Over 50 Athletes: Fix it before it becomes an injury!. There are at least two kinds of massage, sports massage and 'fluff and buff!' Sports massage to fix potential training damage, fluff and buff to relax. Both are good. My recent sports massage, from Tara, revealed an important issue. ... Read more
Being on a fixed income, and yet to make a profit with my business, I have to watch my spending. This doesn't leave room for a full-time Ironman coach. I already save plenty of expense, by camping at races. I learned a lot from my previous coaches. So I was conflicted, as I considered the best approach to training for my next race. The 2016 Louisville, Ironman, in October. After searching the web, I opted for ... Read more
Ironman training begins again, TODAY! It's all about attitude! I'm afraid that I neglected this blog for a while. I was distracted by (1) my business, (2) a pelvic problem, and (3) my recent animal rights work, but I'm back. Be consistent with your training. Whether you are working to reach the bathroom unaided. Or undertaking an ultra-marathon. Um! I'd like to do an ultra. I need to qualify for Boston again ... Read more
King James Version Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." [Except my babe, see below, is in his early 40s] I recently visited Hawaii, to watch my youngest son, Nigel, in the Ironman (his eighth). During the trip, Nigel said, "Dad, I don't think you're suffering enough pain on the bike. Why don't you ... Read more
Plant-based Ironman training is another FitOldDog experiment in life, and it is coming with some interesting surprises - embrace surprise for healthy aging. I'm not the first, but I am one of the older people to try it, I imagine. My run is coming back, after two years. Yes! Two years, but it was a smooth and steady run, of 7 x 400 repeats, at the track, with Julie, today. My pace was not horrible, finally! Now ... Read more
Pauline and I had a very enjoyable, though hot, race at the 2015 Eagleman Half Ironman event, in Cambridge, Maryland, last weekend. Pauline left me far behind, but we both finished unhurt, unlike a number of people carried away in ambulances with heat stress or dehydration. Rupert (my Cook Zenith Stent Graft) and I were really looking forward to this race, not expecting a fast time, and not really competing with ... Read more
PLEASE NOTE: If you have aortic disease, don't undertake any kind of sport or exercise before you have carried out your own benefit/risk assessment, with the guidance of your medical advisors. In the fall of 2010, I started this blog, in the hopes of finding another Ironman-distance triathlete with an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft. I am yet to find such an athlete, but the first person to respond to my ... Read more
The first time I sat on the beach in Lake Placid for my first full Ironman race, in 2007, at age 64 (I think I was 64), I was really nervous. In fact, scared might be a better term. Now, when I do these things, I'm just excited, but I still ask myself, as I wait for the gun to go off, "What the hell am I doing?" But I do it anyway, and never, ever, regret it. As I was rebuilding one of my websites the other day, ... Read more
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