This Guy Can Ride a Bike

Beast

Ryan Hall is beast. This is one of his last hard workouts before the Boston Marathon which he will race, (and hopefully win) on April 20th. He's an awesome guy, a strong christian and a freakin SICK fast runner.

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Disc Golf

Yes indeed, my title aptly describes the new hobby I've picked up as of late. Here at UT Tyler we have our own course on campus and I played once or twice last fall. Then all of a sudden I played a week and a half ago and I was hooked. For one thing, on that fateful day I shot a 9 over par for the course, and 2 over for the back 9. I just kept nailing par's after par's and even one birdie! Granted we were playing from the shorter red tees instead of the longer blue's but for a novice like me it was a pretty incredible feat that I have yet to duplicate. 

After that round I couldn't wait to play again so Saturday afternoon I called up a friend, we went to academy because I wanted to purchase a few of my own discs and we hit the course for a round. Then Sunday I played 10 holes by myself and another 18 with a friend. Monday me and a friend (All different friends) went to a different course south of Tyler that included water and a subsequent wading into said water. And today I played 27 holes with the director of rec sports (My boss) and one of the on campus ministers. Thats 91 holes of disc golf in 4 days! It has seriously been getting in the way of some studying I should be doing but... oh well. I can tell I've already improved some. My throws are getting straighter and going farther, though I still smack the occasional tree.

It's fun, it's cheap, it doesn't take as long as regular golf and you get some exercise in. What could be better!

Quickie

I have a few minutes before I head to class so I thought I'd bang out a quick blog update.

Training went pretty well last week and so far this week. I did my first real bike workout of the year last wednesday and it was bad. No power in the legs at all. Friday and Sunday were some quick brick workouts w/ 3-5 repeats of a short 5-10' bike right off into a 3-7' run. The workout was a lot more specific then that but thats the general idea. I felt stronger Sunday then on Friday and was able to push it a little harder on the bike so that was good.

Swimming is ok. As ok as swimming twice a week can be. 

This week I've just had a swim on monday, track workout tuesday, and a bike workout this morning. Bike was a little better today than last week but still not too good.

This evening the track team is leaving for San Antonio at 6pm. We added a meet at Trinity University tomorrow and I'm going to give the 1500 and the 5k a go. Since I haven't run either of those on the track yet this year (or ever) I should set a PR!