Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday May 25, 2010
In today’s road race I worked hard on the front, in the wind. Some others did too, but a few did the minimum. Last season it made me mad, this season I just wonder what racing looks like to those guys. They are often there at the finish contesting the sprint. Sometimes they post decent [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday May 3, 2010
When I’m riding I miss CrossFit (ok, high intensity mixed-modal training). When I’m CrossFitting, I miss riding. When I’m not training at all, I miss riding. Interesting, non? On top of this, I spent the night painting big, white walls and listening to a Robb Wolf talk about the fantastic application of generalist fitness to [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday March 30, 2010
After feeling like I was coming down with something bad last night, I tucked up in bed early and work up feeling normal (and intending to get a workout in today). Our new workspace layout provides a huge incentive to start work before everyone else (it’s quiet) and when work is heavy, it’s a really [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday March 8, 2010
What’s all this about? So, with the race behind me I’ve decided to finally spend some time addressing the shortcomings in my strength foundation… properly this time. I’m going to spend at least 12-16 weeks on a variation of the Westside Barbellprogram, primarily for the same reason Red is on Starting Strength: because it works, but also [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Thursday February 18, 2010
Maybe you know it? The first time I entered I was rendered to spectatorship and the best riders I knew crawl out of the forest, broken men. Monsters ordinarily, their faces were fixed into grimaces and thousand-yard stares well before the finish line. Jim pulled out, sat down and wouldn’t stop yabbering about umbrellas, such was [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Saturday December 19, 2009
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is. . Neil made a good observation about my perception of ‘cycling ROM’ in jumping squats: Cycling ROM is 35 cm (175 mm cranks). Duh!
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Sunday November 1, 2009
It was some time ago that I last read this classic from Again Faster. Before I had a daughter. Claire is now 20 months old and loves – as pretty much all kids do – running everywhere, trying pick up the 24kg kettlebell, knocking over the little ones and hanging from the gymnastic rings until, [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday October 19, 2009
When my friends and I used to lift the old six foot bar with cement filled weights, we all thought we were pretty strong. Then, Dad would ask us to help him move a car engine or open a rusted jar of nuts and bolts, or put the ping pong table up on a rack [...]
