I can't count. When I started this countdown on April 21 I figured there were 40 days until the first race on May 22. I was off by 10...

On Mondays I have an early morning personal training workout. Today we focused on stability and balance. My coach, Heather Collins, is...

Yesterday morning (Saturday) I had my long run workout. We ran six miles on our "hilly" Sheridan Road / Tower Road course. There were...

Thursday afternoon, after my morning tempo ride and swim lesson I had a tempo run workout of 4 x 1 mile to be run at my 10K goal pace of...

This morning I had an indoor training tempo ride. I had planned to ride indoors on Tuesday and outside today, but I switched it based on...

Tuesday afternoon I had my run workout: 6 repeat hills. We don't have a lot of hill options in the Evanston / Northshore area. Our...

The coaching plan calls for me to do my long ride on Thursday morning and then follow that in the afternoon with a tempo run. But the...

Swimming. My races in Tuscaloosa are duathlons so there will be no swimming. But I still have swim workouts so I can be ready for...

I don't have scheduled workouts on Sunday, just mobility exercises, which I will describe in a later blog. In 2012, when I completed my...

Saturday is long run day. I often run with my coach, Heather Collins of Heather Collins Training. This picture is from the Milwaukee...

Thursday is my heaviest workout day. Normally, I have an hour plus tempo ride at 6 a.m., a swim lesson at 8 a.m., and a tempo or hill run...

Tuesday afternoon after the morning intensity ride, I had a speed workout. Last year I did all my speed workouts at the high school...

In past years, around November I would move my bike training to Craig Strong’s Precision Multisport Studio. Every Tuesday at 5:30 a.m....

Ever since the facility where we trained was closed down in May because of the pandemic, I have had mobility and strength training...

I posted this picture on my old blog, "Do Not Go Gentle..." on August 20, 2009. I was in Tuscaloosa that week preparing to compete in my...

I've submitted my next novel "Dry Heat,"to my publisher and have started work on my 5th novel (tentatively titled "Freedom's Just Another...

I’ve had two poems “published.” Not by being included in real poetry magazines, but published in the sense that one was the main feature...

Len Joy, author of Everyone Dies Famous, talks about delaying the publishing journey until arriving in his 60s, after being dissuaded in...

Back in the late 1990s while my wife and I were helping my father-in-law, Fred Sawada, move to an assisted living facility, we...

Suzanne and I often watch television in the evening when we’re home – which is all the time this year. We’ve been mostly watching series...