May all your waves be righteous, and all your rides bring you Peace. - ceholli The break — Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Buxton, North Carolina. I’m a Texas native through-and-through, and love the ATX for sure. But sometimes, though, I really do miss this place… I’ll continue with the surfing metaphor in a bit, but first [...]
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“The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another” – Richard Feynman So when we put all of our eggs in one basket — say, judging a particular question solely [...]
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. – Rumi What in the hell does a Franciscan Friar (Father Richard Rohr, author of The Naked Now) have in common with Physical Culture [...]
Look at the contrast between these (my latest) two workouts; this is what I consider to be “Conjugate for the masses”. I do think it’s possible to blend power emphasis work with HIT/strength work and the more MetCon-ish/HIIT sessions as well — all within the same overall plan. Add a dash of some bodybuilding-like volume [...]
Since Monday was a holiday (here in the US, at least), I figured it would be a great time to ease into the Austin fixie scene, get a feel for traffic patterns and, well, just the overall vibe and such. And what I found was this: Austin is definitely a bike-friendly town; courteous drivers, plentiful bike lanes, [...]
I get plenty of questions – and understandably so – one way or another related to my fascination with the fixed-speed (or fixed-gear) bicycle. Well, one aspect of the fixie experience that I covet — aside from the cycling purist’s love of the unbroken convergence of body, machine and pavement – is the ability to [...]
TTP reader Matt asks the following question: Hi Keith, I’ve been enjoying your blog for quite some time, so thank you for providing such a fantastic resource. I eat, workout, etc., in a similar fashion as you and also happen to love riding fixed. But I’ve recently gotten a bit concerned about possible long term [...]
Went out for a little “hair of the dog” fixie huck last night. Nothing major, though; simply an attempt at working some of the soreness out of my legs resulting from Monday’s Tour De Raleigh. The TDR ride was only supposed to be a 24-ish mile gig; dumb-ass that I am, though, I turned that [...]
…or Tour DAY Raleigh, as Bob Roll would say… Ran a few errands around town on the ol’ fixie Sunday, and — wouldn’t you know it? — I wound-up at the gym. Big surprise, huh? Anyway, my thought was to do a some Istvan Javorek-inspired GPP. Nothing can make 135 lbs feel like a ton [...]
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you’ve hung around the ol’ TTP blog for long, you’ve inevitably heard me drone-on (and on and on…) about my beloved fixie. What’s the allure, you ask — I mean, Chrissakes, it’s just a friggin’ bicycle, right? Au contraire, my good [...]
Began the day with 18+ miles of mixed-intensity, fixie riding, culminating at the Rocky Mount High School football field for some serious sled dragging. A single-man tackling sled is a little too heavy to use for glute-dominant, goose-step pulls — which I would prefer, as this exercise more closely hits/resembles the at-speed sprinting (pawing) [...]
Actually, let’s back up just a moment and look at last night’s dinner. Now remember, I absolutely LOVE to eat skillfully prepared, intricate and exquisite meals; thank goodness, then, for Meesus TTP’s kitchen skills, and for the talents of my favorite restaurant’s fine chefs. Making such meals myself, though? Meh, I’ve neither the time nor [...]
I found myself with a bit of spare time yesterday after work, so what better option than to saddle up the ol’ fixie and head for a spin? I stopped off by the library and returned The 10,000 Year Explosion (a good read, but not quite the ground-breaker I was expecting). Quick interlude — it [...]
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Ahh, and what a nice break it was. After flying-in and spending the night in downtown Houston, Meesus TTP and I drove out her to father’s place in Chappell Hill. [...]
45 minutes worth of fixie sprints to start this one off today; 17-hours fasted. I stopped off at the library for about an hour, and winded-up leaving with a copy of The 10,000 Year Explosion. I’ve been wanting to read it for some time, now, as I keep seeing anti-Paleo arguments [...]
