Workout Tip: Plan your workouts

Archive for October, 2005

Workout Tip: Plan your workouts

By Blaine Moore on Monday, October 31st, 2005 | 1 Comment

This may seem obvious as a workout tip, but plan your workouts before starting. Figure out what your goals are for the months ahead, so that you can figure out the general types of shorter term goals to set. That way you can set specific goals a week or two ahead of time, and have [...]

Former German athletes sue over forced drug use

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, October 30th, 2005 | 1 Comment

Karen König is the first of 137 former German Olympic athletes who may sue over being forced to take performance enhanding drugs in the mid 80s. The former East German sports system forced their athletes to take the drugs, but the committee no longer exists since the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse [...]

Site Meter

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, October 29th, 2005 | No Comments

I have added Site Meter to this website in the footer. I will let you know how it works out once it has had a chance to go to work. In the meantime, feel free to click the link and see statistics for this site. Obviously, there will not be any prior to today. Update: [...]

Workout Tip: Resuming weights after time off (or never lifting)

By Blaine Moore on Friday, October 28th, 2005 | 11 Comments

After a layoff of some months without lifting weights, it is inadvisable to just jump right back into it. What I do is spend 2-4 weeks on a specific workout that gets my muscles used to the motions and stresses that are unique to lifting weights and which are much different from pounding out miles [...]

Chicago White Sox sweep the world series

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, October 27th, 2005 | No Comments

The Chicago White Sox swept the world series last night, beating Houston 1-0.

Mystic Places Marathon pictures and splits

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 | 2 Comments

The Mystic Places Marathon last weekend was a bit quicker than I had intended to run. Check the full post if you want to see my splits. If you would like to see a few, I have pictures of the race online.

Mystic Places Marathon – My Race

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 | 12 Comments

I ran the Mystic Places Marathon this past weekend, and managed to knock almost 15 minutes off of my PR. My best race so far was in Cleveland where I ran a 3:07:05. My goal was to run under 3 hours, but I did not even run at 3 hour pace until mile 19.

Mystic Places Marathon

By Blaine Moore on Monday, October 24th, 2005 | 4 Comments

The Mystic Places Marathon was yesterday, October 23. Alene Reta and Dzmitry Sivou won the men’s race, coming in a minute apart at 2:25:51 and 2:26:56. Abeba Tola and Elivira Kolpokova won the women’s race in 2:46:21 and 2:47:05.

Marathon Rookie recommendations

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 | 1 Comment

In my previous two posts about Marathon Rookie.com, I went over the pros and cons of the website and the eBook. They complement each other fairly well; the eBook has some of the same content as what appears (for free) on the website, but the meat of the eBook is in the training program and [...]

Marathon Rookie eBook Review

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 | No Comments

Marathon Rookie.com is an eBook written by a non-runner who just completed his first marathon recently and is trying to help others complete their first one. The eBook was written by Brad Boughman, and the motto for him and his eBook is, “How to Train for a Marathon or Half Marathon – and have FUN doing it!“

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