my calves r doing their own thing......

light brick workout today.....75min indoor spin with an evening run of 30 mins. my damn calves keep cramping up near the end of my runs.......its a creeping pain that centres itself deep into my calves, probably the soleus muscle and get s worse as i climb up onto my toes. made an appointment to see john "hands" carson, my good buddy and top notch massage/pyschologist to get me thru this peroid of hurt. i want to be pain free, and i know that it is not a serious problem, just keeps flaring up now and then.

i saw this pic above and thought how awesome that is......

all things bloody and blistered.......

temps were good today, only -4 with a windchill of -14...ha ha, cant wait for the summer. my feet r still in the throes of dealing with the loss of some toenails. the blisters r starting to harden up, and i should be able to double up on wednesday with a good bike and run. today is just a day to recover and look forward to tommorrow. just trying to catch up on kelrocks techno picks and get them into my song rotation for the computrainer rides. that hypnotizing beat helps to focus your mind into the hard efforts that r needed to get thru some of the longer hill portions of a ride. i agonize on not being able to go out and run when the groups meet on tuesday, wdnesday, or thursday because of one of my fuck ups......should have turned back on sunday morn but the old ego wouldnt let me. damn.

IHOP (INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PAIN)

AM 13 miles 1hrs 42mins (hilly)


today was the longest run i have put in in 5years. total time was 1hr and 42mins. left from scott hamilton's house near erbsville and proceeded to hiedelberg/bamberg loop. about 20-21kms of really rolling terrian. the guys were great and the groups split into 2 as the faster lads picked it up about halfway. the course is a real test of mettle. the loop is where alot of us ride in the summer because of the undulating hills and changes of rythm. there was a slight north wind blowing that only instigated a windchill of -15deg. at the end of the run, i took off my jacket and ice fell to the floor of the garage. my sweat had frozen inside the jacket and onto the sleeves of my shirt. i had already felt the burning sensation on both feet from blisters as the shoes had not really been broken in.....3 toenails gone, some big blood blisters on the ends of the toes and 2 large blisters on the arches of my right and left foot. gotta love this self induced masochistic pain machine called running. so different than cycling. well....time to let the feet heal up abit and soldier on. miami, here i come.

The "Brick"

AM 70km bike (computrainer)
AM 4 miles treadmill


well, i am really hurting right now from a big brick workout this morning. since i started about 4 weeks ago, my body has been adapting to the rigors of the bricks on saturdays with the hammer heads at dearborn health. this was not done outside, as the weather is still too unkind to me and my ankles. i did a fairly hilly workout on the computrainer, thank god for the computrainer and a few friends to be around, all in all, about 70 kms done. avg 235 watts for the ride. kris kraemer just spanked us on it today, he was one with the machine!!!.......then off the bike, quik change, and then 4 miles on the treadmill, at about 8.15 to 8.30 mile pace. the legs take abit to get the "deadness" out of them, but they slowly come up to speed. now, i just throw food into my gob all day as the body is still jacked for a few hours after the workout. great day.

just some images that i thought i would share.....bart wellens drinking from bottle, sven nys with arms aloft, klass van tournout.....all cross gods.

january 2/2009

i have a nasty head cold. this sucks. hope to run this afternoon. this really sucks.

WALTER GODEFROOT

WALTER GODEFROOT left 1969 paris roubaix winner, right, beating merckx at henniger '74 and bottom godefroot's nemesis merckx at roubaix.