John Simons

Training Recap: Jan. 29 - Feb. 4

I was not able to train over the last couple of days. We had too much going on. The first half of next week will be busy too. I may need to do a light week. It will be good on my legs anyway. After the first dose of strenght training and then a marathon ride on Thursday night, a lighter week will be good for me.

I spent a total of 4 hours and 10 minutes on the trainer last week. I had hoped to hit 4:30 or even 5 hours, but that will have to come later. Sometimes life interferes with my goals, but that is okay. I have higher priorities than riding the bike.

I will post goals for next week in a couple of days. I won’t be riding tonight. I need to schedule a time to ride next. Maybe Monday or Tuesday.

Tags: training, BRAG, cycling, bicycle, goals, family

Training Feb 2

Rode tonight. The goal was 1:30 to 2:00.

Total time riden was 2:45. Not all in one block though.

Breakdown:
0:35:00 Had to stop to change the entertainment. The original show I had on was too boring. I put on Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. It was much better for the remainder of the ride.

1:00:00 Had to stop to refresh my drink, have a snack, and have a short rest. I also put in some laundry. I also set up to burn some sermon CDs for Christ Community Church. I burned the CDs while I rode. I setup the laptop on a table next to the trainer and switched out CDs from the bike.

0:30:00 Time to change the laundry into the dryer. I also printed the labels for the CDs and affixed them.

0:40:00 Time to end, during the midst of the battle for Helms Deep.

I am tired. It is time to shower and go to bed. Once the battle is over.

Tags: training, bicycle, cycling, bike, LOTR, Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, church, Christianity, sermon, Audacity, Christ Community Church

Training Jan. 31

Last night’s training:

Cross training - played basketball with the youth team. We didn’t scrimmage the whole hour like we have been doing recently. We did some much needed work on fundamentals first. Then scrimmaged at the end, but I got some exercise in.

Cycling - the goal was 45 minutes, working on strength. To work on strength, I increased the resistance on the trainer by one notch, and then did intervals. I warmed up for 15 minutes, then did three five minute intervals that consisted of 1 minute standing at higher resistance, 1 minute sitting at higher resistance, and 3 minutes of recovery. After the last recovery, I did 15 minutes of spinning to finish the 45 minute workout.

I listened to a John Piper sermon on Romans 1:16-17. The sermon dealt with salvation for the believer being in the future and as a result of being justified by faith. It also dealt with the phrase “from faith to faith.” According to Piper, the phrase means that we are saved by faith at the beginning, but also by persevering in our faith. That initial faith then increases our faith. By living in faith every day, we receive more faith to continue.

This morning I finally dropped below 200 lbs. for the first time in a couple of months. The holiday feasts were not kind to my waistline. I need to lose more weight to get into shape for BRAG.

Tags: training, bicycle, cycling, bike, John Piper, sermon, Christianity, faith, Romans