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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:23 PM

Piling it on

I've strung together four days of very solid workouts this week after feeling fatigued on Sunday. Extra sleep helps! Mon: AM: slept in PM: track workout. 7x1000 w/ 2:00 rest Tue: AM: swim incl 5x100 @ 4:00 ALL OUT PM: bike incl 2x(4x(180sec hard,
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:57 PM

website updates

Over the last month I've fixed up a few things on my static site, http://www.ChrisTremonte.com : I've updated the "Sponsors" page for 2008 I've upload a bunch of race pictures to the "Pictures" page Check out my tentative
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:42 PM

Shelled

Last night and today I just felt *drained.* We have had a bit going on outside of sport this weekend, but I can probably point at Saturday's workouts as the biggest proximal cause: 8am: track workout at Roosevelt. 2 x 2 miles target 5:35-5:40 pace
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:25 PM

Old Man Winter

The highlight of my last week of training was the Recycled Cycles Racing Team's training camp in Bellingham. We planned to get in a long ride on Saturday and another long ride on Sunday but the weather didn't cooperate. Saturday was one of my
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Friday, January 18, 2008 5:23 PM

Science of Sport blog

I just discovered a cool blog called The Science of Sport where two South African kinesiologists discuss a variety of topics related to exercise. The first post that I read was about Running Economy but I also saw topics ranging from Roger Clemens to
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:33 PM

apple cups!

I made it to the Sultan Bakery for an apple cup today. It was fabulous. Everything I'd been dreaming of -- gooey, sweet, cinammonny... My three previous tries were thwarted in various ways. The weather made it a beautiful day for a bike ride. Week
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Monday, January 07, 2008 10:10 PM

weekly summary

I made my triumphant return to track workouts tonight at Dempsey Indoor. I am still easing into things but it felt awesome to really open up and run again. Megan and I ran 3x(400-400-800) while the marathon girls ran a different set. I'm not sure
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:01 PM

Last year's training volume

Since I have 3+ years of training logged in a spreadsheet, I figured it would be cool to add up some numbers and see how much I really train in an average week. I was also curious about how this has changed over the years as I've focused more on the
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