Treadmill Intervals

My wife Kasia and I are currently training to run the Leavenworth Oktoberfest [half] Marathon. I'm still a long way from running 13.1 miles nonstop, but I'm working on my endurance via HIIT -- High Intensity Interval Traning, a.k.a. running treadmill intervals. It's a little counter intuitive that running short intense bursts of speed can help with a long, relatively slow-paced event, but there is considerable evidence to support this theory.

A brief internet search reveals there are as many HIIT protocols as there are people running them. Rather than pick a random protocol from a random website, I did the only reasonable thing -- I made up my own.

MIA

I haven't posted anything on this blog in roughly... forever. During this off period, Kasia & I got married and bought a house in Woodinville. We also completed our first metric centuries (the 2007 Flying Wheels, also our first organized ride), or first imperial centuries (not organized), and our first double-metric centuries (first day of the 2007 Seattle to Portland).

It's the end of March, and Spring is upon us, although you wouldn't know this by looking outside. Woodinville received about 2" snow last night.

If Spring is here, then Organized Bike Ride Season can't be far behind. Kasia & I are planning to participate in a number of rides this year. See the Event Calendar for upcoming organized rides. No, we're not planning to do all of them.