- Follow We Run and Ride on WordPress.com
-
Recent Posts
Archives
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
Categories
- 10K
- 13.1
- 400 meter intervals
- 400 workouts
- 5K
- aging
- aging is not for the weak of heart
- anxiety
- bike accidents
- bike crash
- bike wobble
- blood on the highway
- boxing
- category
- Christopher Cudworth
- climbing
- college
- competition
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- cross country
- cycling
- cycling the midwest
- cycling threats
- death
- Depression
- diet
- doing pulls in cycling
- duathlon
- evangelical Christianity
- foregiveness
- game of chicken
- gay marriage
- God
- half marathon
- hating cyclists
- healthy aging
- healthy senior
- I hate cyclists
- injury
- internet trolls
- IRONMAN
- it never gets easier you just go faster
- life and death
- love
- marathon
- marathon santa
- marathon training
- Mechanical Genius
- mental health
- mental illness
- mountain biking
- nature
- Open Carry
- PEAK EXPERIENCES
- race pace
- racing peak
- religious liberty
- riding
- road kill lovers
- running
- same sex adults
- sex
- Share the Road
- steeplechase
- swimming
- Tarsnakes
- the rules velominati
- tour de france
- track and field
- trail running
- training
- training for a marathon
- TRAINING PEAKS
- tri-bikes
- triathlete
- triathlon
- triathlons
- trolls
- Uncategorized
- we run and ride
- We Run and Ride Every Day
- werunandride
- When the other man is an Ironman
- women
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsLeave a comment!
Tag Archives: indoor track
Are you ready for this?
This morning I popped the Specialized Venge on the trainer and pedaled for 40 minutes or so. We have a nice room set up for indoor training. There’s a TV and a fan and a place to hang our bikes … Continue reading
Learning things about ourselves
The nurses responsible for instructions on how to handle things after my meniscus surgery were both honest and cautious about the conditions I might face coming off the procedure. “You might need crutches,” one nurse told me. “When you go down … Continue reading
Posted in running, track and field
Tagged indoor track, learning things about ourselves, self-discovery
Leave a comment
Clockwise and counterclockwise
When you think about it, there’s no real reason the hands of a clock rotate ‘clockwise.’ The same result could be achieved if the hands were to move in the other direction, known as ‘counterclockwise.’ But it’s tradition. So … Continue reading
Posted in race pace, racing peak, running
Tagged counterclockwise versus clockwise, indoor track
1 Comment
Bloody good to be alive
This morning’s training session was conducted on a very busy indoor track at the Vaughn Center, the health club facility to which we belong in Aurora. There were two separate youth track teams working out, a pickup basketball game infringing … Continue reading
Posted in running, track and field, Uncategorized
Tagged blood stream, bloody good to be alive, corpuscles, heart rate, indoor track, track and field
Leave a comment
The inside scoop on running (inside)
Yesterday the temps were in the single digits and the wind chill ungodly. Had Jesus been born into this kind of weather, he’d have crawled back inside Mary and waited for the Holy Spirit to warm things up a little. … Continue reading
The small joys of incremental progress
Yesterday was a track session at the Vaughn Center, a public fitness facility that has a 200-meter indoor track. It’s a great place to run on a February afternoon when temperatures are in the mid-teens and the wind chill makes … Continue reading
Posted in track and field, Uncategorized
Tagged incremental progress, indoor track, track and field, workouts
2 Comments
Running inside out
This morning my companion Sue completed eight miles on the treadmill as part of her preparation for an upcoming half-marathon in April. No matter how you look at it, those are not easy miles on a treadmill. A long time, … Continue reading
Secrets to successful high intensity workouts
Shhhhh! I met up with a younger woman at the track this morning. So, that’s the secret. Of course, it had nothing to do with having an affair or anything like that. I was interviewing her for an upcoming article. … Continue reading
Celebrating the fitness of youth
As my companion Sue and I did a workout of 6 X 800 on the Batavia High School indoor track this morning, we noticed that a couple kids had showed up with their parents to run. Between intervals I jogged over … Continue reading