John Simons

The podcast mystery

As part of my ongoing work on the website for Christ Community Church I have created a podcast. If you are curious you can check it out and subscribe at Feedburner.

Feedburner has expanded their free stats several weeks ago. I am amazed a the number of people who have downloaded our sermons, and at the number of people who are listed as subscribers. › Continue reading

Feeling no love

So, I haven’t had time to post any entries on either blog for over a week. Nobody noticed. Nobody commented. The story of my blog. I am glad that I only do this for me, but the occasional comment would be nice.

Doesn’t anybody read this thing?

Tags: blog, blogging, love

Training, Mar. 26

I am still catching up on the training blog entries.

I was on the trainer on Sunday after riding on Saturday. I haven’t been on the bike since.

Here are the stats from the HRM:
45:01.8
115 Avg. HR
128 Max. HR.

It was all recovery ride. I was working on my computer getting the sermon from church ready to put on the internet.

Tags: training, bicycle, cycling, bike

Riding, Mar. 25 — Silver Springs Shores

I was back on the bike this past weekend. I just haven’t had time to post any information about the ride. This will be brief. It is late, I am out of town, and need to get to sleep. I just want to get caught up.

I rode in the afternoon and headed from my house out to the baseline greenway and then through Silver Springs Shores. I rode a pretty good pace, but wasn’t trying to go too hard. I must have had a tailwind on the way out because I averaged over 17 mph, without trying too hard. However, I then had to fight a headwind on the way back, and it slowed me down considerably. Overall, it was a good ride. Out where I turned around to ride home, there is a rifle range. It makes you paranoid to be on the bike and hearing gunshots, particularly in rural Marion County.

Here are the stats:
Computer
1:35:30
25.00 miles
15.7 Avg.
28.4 Max.

HRM
1:38:18
155 Avg. HR
206 Max. HR

Here is the map from the GPS:

And this is the elevation chart:

Tags: training, bicycle, cycling, bike, Ocala, GPS, Silver Springs Shores

Training, Mar. 21

I was on the trainer tonight doing a recovery ride. The same one that I have put off for the last couple of days. This is supposed to be a low key week. However, I need to get into the habit of riding more times every week. I doubt that I will have time to ride tomorrow. I will try to ride on Thursday. I am not sure about Friday, but hope to ride 20-30 miles on Saturday. On Sunday, I may have to ride on the trainer as my wife will be out of town and I will have the kids.

So tonight’s stats:
Time: 30:04
Avg.: 122
Max.: 138

I had the mp3 player on, but listened to several shorter programs. Some stuff from NPR, and some Key Life by Steve Brown.

Tags: training, bicycle, cycling, bike, NPR, Key Life, Steve Brown, recovery