My nature is to be efficient. I want to be able to get to where I'm going with the least amount of steps. Today I decided to reduce the amount of steps it takes to enter training distances in my log. It should save me a couple of minutes each day. Normally I record in miles, even though my speedometer on my bike is in km's. After every workout I manually calculate km's to miles and then log it into my "map my run" training log. It's an extra step I know, but I've always felt comfortable in miles. When they did the conversion from Imperial to Metric, I was in elementary school. They originally taught us Imperial and then a couple years later they had to re-teach us metric, so I know both very well.
When I was running 20 years ago, everything was a minute per mile pace and I am very comfortable with that system, even now. Biking I've converted to metric after watching the Tour and wanting to relate to the racing times. On the bike I now prefer kph. For running, I'm reluctant to change, but I will. I'm going to change my Garmin to metric and try to learn what km per minute means in terms of effort.
This week of training is going to be interesting. I just found out I need to go to Vancouver for a couple of days on business with one of my business partners. Unfortunately his father just passed away this past weekend after a lengthy illness. I can tell it's tough on him and was surprised he was feeling okay to come. His fathers service isn't until the New Year. I'm sure it will be sombre. I feel for him.
It's a 5 hour flight each way. I'm leaving tomorrow and returning Wednesday. Lots of air time. To bad I couldn't bring my bike and do my long ride in the air and kill two birds with one stone. To make it all work, I took Alice, the kids and Alyssa's boyfriend out for Alice's birthday dinner a day early. We went to the Olive Press, great Italian food. Her real birthday is tomorrow. When we got home we had ice cream cake and I went to the basement to do a bike ride. An hour and a half into the ride I was mentally toast and irritable.
I can tell already that these indoor bike rides are going to be hell. Somehow I managed to persevere and finish. I did find a blog from Rich Roll, he is a guy who does Ultra Ironman's and it was an interesting read. It killed about 20 minutes. I'm intrigued by Ultra's and one day plan on doing one or more. I think they are a great way to get your family involved first hand with them being the crew.
Weights - 45:00 / End 1
Mod Bike Ride - 2:50:00 / 93.29 km / 32.93 kph / 125 avg hr
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Welcome to the 21st Century - I'm English so the Imperial system is deeply deeply ingrained. I now love metric though and wonder when those silly Brits and daft Yanks will come join the party with the rest of the world.
As for Ultras - you need to do Marathon Des Sables - pure hell. I did it for my 40th birthday. Check out the posts on my blog, they're based on the emails I sent over the seven day race. http://www.promarkstrategies.com/pm_only/NewsletterMay2006/web/Marathon_Des_Sables.html
I probably should have trained for it though.
I can relate to that miles and km thing. They did the same in the UK, ackkk!
The one good thing about kph is that you gain a higher number, sadly not extra actual speed ;)
B
Ah, finally we can talk the same language, km/h.
Good luck with traveling during this crazy time. my condolences to your busines partner. Not nice losing a father and then during this time of year, must be very hard.
Ultra's?? Don't you think you are already training too many hours for IM. Ultra will just be to many hours training, but good luck on decision, which I think will be the hardest. Once decided on doing it the rest will come by itself
J
S, thanks for the link. I checked it out. Looks interesting. I'll also read your blog on my next long ride. haha. Your amazing.
JM, I guess it's now only the US that is non metric now that I changed.
J, thanks. Yeah I'm surprised he coming but he's a real stoic type of guy and knows it's an important meeting. I'm just starting to do the reading on Ultra's. I haven't found much on how to train for them. I definitely want to try at least on. Maybe the Ultra in Hawaii. First I got to get to Kona though. Until I do that I'm going to hold off. I think
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