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Fixie

“Age is mind over matter — if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter” – Mark Twain

A long bout of fixie intervals, some barefooted sprints, and a little bit of iron heavin’.  Spring broke in a beautiful way here in eastern NC, so I got out and about and made the most of [...]

135 lbs hasn’t felt this heavy in quite some time.  I cut down the rest time between exercises here to next to nothing — just long enough to catch a gasp of air — before hitting the next movement.  If you look at the time-under-tension of each movement you’ll see that each [...]

“The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
2 miles from my house to the gym offers a perfect opportunity for a short fixie huck/warm-up prior to throwing around a little iron.  An odd combination, I know.  I was asked recently if I was the only fixie [...]

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yesterday, in what amounted to quite a departure from my usual explosive-type workouts, I spent three-and-a-half hours in the fixie saddle, terrorizing the downtown streets and greenway trails in and around Raleigh, NC.  Why the departure?  Well, I don’t [...]

“…Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
Some guys come home from work and wash up,
And go racin’ in the street…”
- Bruce Spingsteen.  Though I’m kinda partial to my buddy Charlie Robison’s version.
Saturday’s workout commenced during hour 18 of an IF (intermittent fast), and consisted of a good [...]