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Author: Paul Radcliffe
September 19, 2012
Yellow is my colour this fall
I guess yellow is my colour this fall. Or maybe gold? It’s nice that I get these shirts long before race day so that I can train in them before my respective races. There is a superstition that you shouldn’t wear a race shirt until the race because they’re technically finishers shirts and you haven’t finished yet. But these are almost uniforms, so I want to train in them to know how they feel and get used to them. On the left is my Team LiveSTRONG shirt that I’ll be wearing for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October[…continue reading]
September 11, 2012
Classic Overtrain
Recently, I demonstrated exactly what happens when overtraining. I got the moodiness, lack of performance and illness in spades! It’s no mystery why I wound up in this situation: Work had been unusually difficult for the last month. I’m used to being out of the office a day or two a week with short site visits and walking around construction sites. Over this month I was out 3-4 times a week, in really hot weather wearing very hot safety gear and heavy steel toe-boots. One day involved walking all over a carhouse checking systems. My pedometer said I took more[…continue reading]
September 4, 2012
Hacked!
As you may have noticed, the site was down for a few days. I had the “honour” of being one of many that were ‘hacked by Hmei7‘. Maybe I should consider myself to be in elite company of Hmei7 also hacked Yamaha and Siemens. Fortunately it wasn’t a big mess and all the content is still here. There was a really helpful post on the WordPress Support Forums to help get me back up. I don’t know much about php databases and such, but I was able to hack something back together. Frustrating though… Just to be paranoid, I’ve changed[…continue reading]
