Unqualified Offerings

3-4-3-5 this week. Still haven’t hit 3-3-3-3-6. Still haven’t done a six-mile run. Patience, my little ones, I tell myself each week. It was a fun running week, though. The first three-miler was my standard bike-path loop in the dark on Tuesday. I did the four miles out from Georgetown along the C&O Canal and […]

The sort-of return of fitness blogging, with an emphasis on endurance exercise professional and amateur.
Urine TROUB-le Update - John Eustice offers a defense of Floyd in the IHT. I still haven’t seen any of Floyd’s defenders address Jesus Manzano’s claims that testosterone supplementation can indeed have a short-term adrenalinelike effect. I’d really like to see […]

Yee-hah! Landis wins the overall. Mrs. Offering likes that his wife, while attractive, “looks like a real person.” Alas, between work stress and warblogging, I’ve barely focused on this year’s race. I completely missed Landis’ Journey to the Underworld in Stage 16 and the The Return in Stage 17. From what I read, Landis cracked […]

Comes from Zack, who continues the low heart-rate discussion.
I still haven’t bought a heart rate monitor, but I’ve been diligent about the “conversational pace” test during running lately, and when it’s just me and Unqualified Dog, I use the “Pledge of Allegiance” test. With slightly cooler weather yesterday, I gained about 30 seconds per mile […]

President Bush has been declared the fittest President in history. Hey, did he ever build his own house out of wood he split himself? Hey, maybe he has, I don’t know. That’s not the point. The point is that Radley oversells what it means that the President is also, per standard calculations, overweight:
Critics of critics […]