Live Breathe Skate

Ever feel cursed? Athletes can be strange sometimes. Some surround their performance in a race with ritual while other look to lady luck for a helping hand. Some like myself simply get wrapped up in history of performance at an event. If I’ve had bad experiences at a particular race, it [...]

This weekend I raced the Texas Road Rash event in Round Rock, outside of Austin Texas.  All in all a great weekend, I came home with the wrong kind of trophy, but more on that later   When the dust had settled, I finished 19th overall out of 111 skaters, and within Pro Masters, [...]

The Texas Road Rash race is now only a couple of days away and I’ve pretty much completed my early season preparation.    There has not been a lot of time to prepare outside but have managed to squeeze in a few kilometers.    The table below shows my outdoor skating  mileage from April 1st to April [...]

Good Friday was all about some good intervals.  I spent a couple of hours over in Fallowfield training with Dan again.   Instead of distance work though, we buckled down and did our first 10/30 workout for the season.  This workout is an interval pattern.  Its particularly effective because it essentially is a simulation of race.
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Today I grabbed the 95 out to Fallowfield to skate with my skating buddy Dan Thompson.  From Jockvale the Golf Links crescent  provides a 1.7Km slightly hilly (a valley actually) loop back to Jockvale.  So a loop is 3.4Km.  We did 13.75 loops, giving a big workout total of 46Km.  Each of us pulling 6 [...]