February 2012
6 posts
Oops - fellrnr.com outage!
The server ran out of disk space yesterday and had to be restarted. I have my dropbox account on the server for backups and file sharing (it’s great for both purposes and I don’t know how I survived without it). However, the server had only been allocated 4 Gb of space and dropbox replicates 2Gb free, so I blew things up. Lesson learned! BTW, if you don’t use dropbox yet, please use this...
Feb 26th
Training Monotony
Monotony is considered a sign of an ineffective training program. Monotonous training has a similar level of stress each day. High levels of monotony tend to increase fatigue, have a higher risk of overtraining, and produce less benefit than low monotony routines. This new article is part of my work on Overtraining and introduces the concept of Monotony, how it can be calculated and provides a...
Feb 23rd
TRIMP ('TRaining IMPulse')
As part of my research into overtraining, I’ve been looking at ways of measuring the impact of training. I’ve created an article on TRIMP (‘TRaining IMPulse’) and the various ways it can be calculated. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/TRIMP
Feb 15th
Free software for altitude training released
I’ve release the software I use for altitude training. I use this software with a pulse oximeter and the AltoLab altitude training system. I’m not sure how many people will find this useful, so the documentation is embryonic. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Hypoxic_Timer and details of the supported pulse oximeters at http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Pulse_Oximeter More background at...
Feb 14th
Mental fortitude
I had a question about my wiki entry on ‘Top 10 marathon racing mistakes’ about mental fortitude and if it could be actively developed. I’ve spent some time thinking about this and I believe that you can train your fortitude in much the same way you can speed or endurance. I’ve written this up as http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mental_fortitude and I’m interested in any...
Feb 13th
Janurary 2012 Mileage
It’s rather late, but I worked out my January mileage, which was 367 miles. More details at http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Training_Macrolog
Feb 9th