If you’re a runner (like I am on some days), you’re dependent on your body, the elements, and a small bit on your equipment (which is shoes, socks, clothing, sunscreen, a bit of lubricant, and maybe glasses, a hat, and/or a visor–and in rare situations your phone, music player, and GPS). You may have all […]

I have two types of training schedules. The first type is just a calendar that tells me what workouts I want to do when. My goal–which I rarely reach–is eleven workouts a week: four bike rides, four runs, and three weight sessions. I try to do the bike rides Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday; the […]

Riding a bike 100 miles in a day is not something to try to do without proper training (just like how running a marathon is not something to try to do without proper training). Yet, I’d done it before, pre-diagnosis, so my feeling was that since I was getting into better shape than I had […]

Here’s a few organized events on O’ahu for running and cycling. I’m definitely planning on doing the Honolulu Bicycling League Century Ride and possibly the Norman Tamanaha 15K; not real sure about the rest, a lot depends on how my training is going. First off is a series of runs called the 808 Race Marathon […]

I was a cyclist in college, mostly as a way to get around. The University of Hawai’i has awful parking in the area, and I had a part time job off campus a few miles away. The only way to get to and from quickly was on a bike. For whatever reason, I had gotten […]

Let me be honest about one thing here: I hate running. I absolutely hate it. But yet, I do it. I’ve now done four organized runs in less than a year and a half, including one marathon (although that was not my best exercise experience). But all that said, it’s clearly not my exercise of […]

I ran this 10K for the first time on Saturday. I found out about this year’s event through (what else?) Twitter. In fact, I found out that two of my Twitter buddies (@tadasauce and @typezero3) were going to be running it (@typezero3 along with his wife and one year old son) and another (@surfchik4jesus) would […]

Livestrong Philadelphia is not all that far off. Less than two months. I’m getting down to it. I’ve already ran two 5Ks, an 8K, a 10K, and a 13K this year, plus a 100K bike ride. I’m not where I want to be–but it seems I never am–but that’s not going to stop me. I’ve […]