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I’m changing things up around here

By hak ⋅ June 24, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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It’s time for me to get into a routine here at The Journey of Hakado Ru. For my sake and yours.

Although using this publishing space as a personal journal of my experiences can be a nice mental release for me, and entertaining to you if I’m lucky, it appears most people are interested in learning something about multisports. Not necessarily what I ate for breakfast.

Go figure.

“Gee, honey. Look. Hak had a bowl of cornflakes this morning. I never realized eating a bowl of cereal could be so laden with drama.”

As a perpetual student of endurance multisports, I am undertaking a journey.  Along the way, I will discover things that will help me or hinder me. These lessons are what I want to share with you. Not necessarily every step I take along the way.

Being a relatively selfish bastard, I will focus on multisport activities of interest to me. Namely short-course triathlon, trail running, strength training, meditation, yoga, road cycling and so forth. When I get the free time to train for a 70.3 or an Ironman-distance race, I’ll branch off in that direction. For now, there are no shortage of Ironman-focused web sites where you can get your going long fix.

To keep us both happy, I will be bringing in some guest authors to share their experiences, training and lifestyle strategies in the months ahead. I’ll also start posting based on a daily theme:

  • Mondays: Meditation & Yoga - We’ll explore the “softer” side of training that keeps us mentally and physically healthy and supple.
  • Tuesdays: Training - Learn different strategies on multisport endurance and speed training. I’ll also cover strength training just because it scares the bejesus out of most endurance athletes.
  • Wednesdays: Multisport Life - In short, how to find balance between training, family, work and/or school.
  • Thursdays: Race Strategies -Tips and strategies for race day.
  • Friday: Fuel - Nutrition is the savior or nemesis of all athletes. Let’s figure out how to make it our saviors.
  • Saturday: Bloggeriterary Review - Best of the blogs from the past week.
  • Sunday: Fit Family - How to include our families in our passion for endurance sports; or how to not sleep on the couch so much.

We’re all here to learn from each other so feel free to comment away on what you like, don’t like or feel like you have a contribution to make.

If you want to submit an article, please send me an e-mail with your idea: hakadoru@gmail.com. You’ll get a link back to your blog and a chance to introduce yourself to another crowd.

Find your edge and dance upon it.

hak

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4 comments for “I’m changing things up around here”





  1. Sounds exciting! I am looking forward to Wednesdays and Thursdays (especially the next two). My first tri is in l1 days!

    Posted by Penny | June 27, 2007, 12:35 pm

  2. Penny,

    Best of luck to you! What distance are you doing again?

    hak

    Posted by hak | June 27, 2007, 12:57 pm

  3. Thanks hak! I am doing a sprint — the Danskin In Pleasant Prairie, WI.

    Posted by Penny | June 27, 2007, 2:14 pm

  4. Penny,

    Looks like you’ll do just fine. Just remember that it gets better after the swim. Even though I was overly confident going into the swim of my first tri, it almost got the best of me. I was sooooo close to signaling a kayak to come pull me out.

    If you start to feel like it’s “game over” during the swim, just pull yourself out to the side away from the group, tread water for a minute to collect yourself. Then motor on.

    Rinse and repeat if necessary until you round that final buoy. At that point, you will get an amazing rush that will take you to shore.

    hak

    Posted by site admin | June 27, 2007, 2:23 pm

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