Work Capacity… how much can you handle?

Tren’sTrainingTip: Much of what BASE building represents for me is the process of slowly and steadily building up the amount of stress my body can handle so that by the time I start my  high intensity work (above threshold) 8 weeks out from a peak, I’ll be able to recover from these workouts and theoretically [...]

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The Slow-Grind (Legs not Coffee)

Last night was another good, hard workout courtesy of Dede @ FastSplits. This was more of a low-cadence workout which although painful, I really like. Last session I ended up having to move to a different class because I missed the reg. session being up in VT for work. I ended up in a class [...]

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The Runaway L-Train runs over anything in it’s way

I hit the road at 10AM with Michael B, of Four Burgers fame.  We suffered through some heavy headwinds to get to the Jonny Kelly statue on Comm Ave. @ about 10:45. The statue is a little setback from the road but it’s the marker of Mile #20 on the Boston Marathon Course and it’s [...]

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All I want for Christmas is…

3×17′s at 333 watts… And I got it! that is all. -L

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2-a-Day, the hard way

Status: fired up… and down. Did 2 bike WO’s today as I had yesterday and tomorrow off (travel schedule) I thought I’d flog myself good today… and I did. AM: 2-3′ hills in the Snow on the MTB.  8 hills for a total of 18′ spent at VO2 max power (going off PE and HR). [...]

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