You look at a label for food these days and everything says “Less Fat!” There are always caveats like “less fat than the regular brand”, or “less fat than a pound of bacon inside 2 pounds of ground beef”, or “Less fat than Fat Albert”. They can legally say less fat, because those caveats are [...]

This post will be short and to the point; I lost 2 pounds yesterday. And I didn’t work out. I simply counted my points, consumed healthy foods, and most importantly ate healthy potions of those foods. I was supposed to have a recovery day on Monday, but I really wanted to ride, so I switched [...]

There are some things in life that it can be difficult to figure out what the return on investment is. My favorite example: Making the bed; what exactly is the point of this when you’re 100% guaranteed to mess it up in about 12-14 hours? Others though, have an obvious and immediate benefit. This blog [...]

In Chales Dickens famous “A Tale of Two Cities”, we see parallels drawn between the French revolution and life in London during the same period of time. Today’s post will make a similar comparison in A Tale of Two Bennys (it both kind of rhymes with cities and happens to be Rach’s nickname for me). [...]

I hope everyone is having the awesome day that I am. Last friday, my group at work finally moved out of the basement and into new digs on the first floor of the building. I get to see daylight out my bosses window every day now, and that’s never a bad thing. Plus, Rach had [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I went out to Springfield College last night to take a lactate threshold test. This test is used to give you guidance on how to train within certain heart rate zones; basically giving you a metric for determining how hard your training was that day for your body and not just [...]

With 86 days left until Patriot Half, It’s time to start ramping up the training volume. I’ve been reading a lot recently in both cycling and triathlon magazines about athletes using short, high-intensity workouts can take the place of some % of slower high volume workouts. I’ve been following this approach as of late as [...]

Good morning! Sorry for my unscheduled absence yesterday. I spent the day recuperating from a long weekend spent driving. It was a weekend I know I’ll never forget, and I’d like to share a bit of it with you today. Friday Night – Rachelle and BU Women’s hockey were in Pennsylvania at the site of the Women’s [...]

Two things we can be absolutely certain about in this post are: 1. I have the most kind, generous, and supportive friends, readers, and family around.2. I will never win a blogging award for best video work. (There are some great shots of my nostrils though). Also, please excuse the rambling, I still have to [...]

This morning, I dropped Rach off at work, after which the team flies to Erie, PA for the Women’s NCAA Frozen Four. Last night, before she packed and prepped we made use of our BuyWithMe deal for admission to the Frog Pond at Boston Common for outdoor ice skating. Being that it’s March, and we’ve seen [...]