Tony Thaller

2010

2010-03-13T14:29:00.002-06:00

This year is going to be a great year, Going to focus on impoving my overall health and just enjoy what ever comes my way. Looking forward to Long Hikes with the family and getting them all Motivated to be outside and moving....Can't wait for the weather to break so I can get some good riding time in.

Trail work and riding

2009-03-31T21:14:00.003-06:00

The last few weeks I've been extremely busy with trailwork and it has set my running and riding back a few weeks, not to worried since the weather been crappy but hopefully the weather will turn around and i could get a few more long rides in before my first race of the season Sylivan Island stampede on 4/19.

Now trying to juggle training and trailwork? I would say the last few weeks I've been pretty obsessed with trailwork, it started the first week of march when we got 4" inches of rain in two days and with the permafrost still in the ground it made for some pretty disasters consequences, we installed 8 new bridges at Black Partridge last September but didn't get them tied down before the ground froze so when the rain hit we got a massive flash flood and it moved a few of the bridges down stream a bit and took a few more way down stream(About a 1/4 Mile),so we've been putting those back in place but with some Major modifications.Some of the bridges started out as 20footers that now have been turned into 30footeers with a major rock pillar system i came up with to hold them in place. I told the wife that I would start keeping track of how much time I put in on trailwork projects by writing them in my blog so this is a start.

I write more tomorrow cause I'm having a hard time keeping my eye's open....

goodnight!

2009

2009-01-22T22:11:00.001-06:00

Hey, I wasn't for sure this still worked....

Sixth week

2008-03-02T21:23:00.003-06:00

I'm at the half way point of the body for life and everything is going well. I started out at 159# and after to days weigh in I was at 150#. I've been paying close attention to my food intake making sure I have the proper amount protein,carbs and veggies but I can say that the easiest food part are the protein shakes, I have one in the morning for breakfast and then one in the afternoon for snack. Protein intake is around 125g to 150g and seems to be okay, there are days that I feel so full that it is difficult to eat all six meals. All in all I would say that the food part is going Great. Now the weight Training part is the fun part of the program, It's only surposed to be three weight lifting days a week but now i'm going to start lifting four days a week. I'll give that a try and see how it goes.

4th week

2008-02-17T09:20:00.002-06:00

I'm a little off on my weeks cause I caught some stomach bug and really couldn't do any kind of training, so figured I missed three days which ended my 4 weeks on thursday instead of monday. Weighed in at 150.8 pounds and now can diffenitly see some results from proper eating and training. I feel much stronger and have come to love the upper body lifting days, can't wait to see what the next 4 weeks can do for for me....also going to try some yoga which I know is going to kill me but need to do something to help me get more limber.

I've been trying to figure out what races I'm going to do this year and the only one I'm certain about is the 6 or 12 hours of bluemounds( that place rocks). It kicked my ass serverly last year and I need to go redeem myself. Howie had a couple 12 hour races that looked pretty interesting that I may also try....XC races, how many and which ones???? Races are everywhere so I think I'll play those by ear and see which ones sound good.

Sounds like all the kids are up so I'll post more results next week.

Going Well...

2008-02-03T21:32:00.000-06:00

It's my third week of training and all is going pretty well. I started out at 158.5 pounds three weeks ago and at todays weigh in I was 152.6pounds. I'm hoping not to lose any more weight but I geuss you got to lose the fat before you can start putting on muscle.. I have been watching my diet very closely to make sure im eating the proper amount of protein and carbs but I was thinking on upping my amount of protein just a little. I want to try a new shake that has 39 grams of protein in it( talk about drinking your food).
This week it was 2 upper body workouts and 1 lower body workout with an aerobic day between each weight lifting day. I usally ride the bike for one of my areobic days and run on the treadmill for the other two. I'm really starting to enjoy my running days. I feel i get more out of them over the bike days. Im only running for 30 minutes which includes my warm up and cool down and averaging around three miles which isn't a whole lot but with the interval I do it pretty much kicks my ass...
Cant really tell that much on appearance but my wife says my stomach and love handles are disapearing and I diffinitly feel stronger. Hopefully everything goes good this week and I'll have more positive results to share. Oh ye, still no diet coke.

New work out plan!!!

2008-01-27T17:54:00.001-06:00

Well, its been almost a year since my last post and decided to give it a try again. I need a place to keep me on track with my new training. The last few months I haven't did much at all and was getting way out of shape, MY diet was extremely bad and i was hardly drinking any water. Most of my fluid intake was soda(diet coke). The training I'm doing is for all around good health and fitness so I wanted something different than my typical ride to get into shape.......

I had a few friends that did the body for life program and it helped them out a bunch so I decided to give it a try. You work out 6 days a week, 3 days weight training and 3 days of aerobic. I really look forward to getting up in the morning working out. The diet plan is really easy to fellow and I had no problems with that but I did have a hell of a time kicking the soda habit. I quit cold turkey which wasn't really a problem, what was the problem is i was addicted to the caffeine in the diet coke which in return gave me a killer headache for three days and then went away.....could you say ouch.... specially with 4 kids.....

I've been doing this for a couple weeks now so i will try to post something every week to see how my progress is going. Time for bed and get my stuff set up for tomorrows work out.

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Finally

2007-03-11T21:35:00.000-06:00

Weather was great...finally got to get out on the road bike. It was nice to not be on the trainer. Ride was fairly short, around 20 miles, but I had limited time. I was so happy to finally be out side riding that I started off way too fast, not paying attention to my HR or anything. I was enjoying the scenery when I came to my first small climb and my legs felt like steel weights. I trucked up the hill knowing there was a nice descent on the other side. By the second hill I hit my legs were warmed up and ready to go. The rest of the ride was great and can't wait to get outside and ride again. I really have to work on warming up and stretching before riding. Need to sit down with Amy and figure out what races I am going to do this year.

The next month is going to be extremely busy getting everything ready for the MTB festival. Think I have a work day every weekend until May (except Easter). Don't know if I will have enough time to train for the first I-74 race but I will decide if I am going to do that when the time comes. It would be a lot easier if we had 30 hour days!

I hate Snow shovels

2007-02-14T23:35:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was a very fun and adventures day. It started out crappy and got even crappier by days in. Got up to go to work and realized we had received 4 to 5 inches of snow which isn't really to bad till you put 30 to 40 mph winds with it. I think they call that blizzard like conditions.
I have a nice big dodge 4X4 truck so I set off for work. The roads surprisingly where in good shape accept for some drifting here and there. Got to work and it seemed like the sky was falling, At lunch we realized that it was getting worse so we decided to call it the day. The problem with that is the company I work for is out in the country with Fields all around, so guess what. Yep, we had 3 to 4' drifts all over the place. I and few others had no problem plowing threw them with are nice big trucks but the ones with 2 wheel drives weren't going anywhere without clearing a way first, so me and a few others started shoveling and we got every out by 2:30. Great work-out accept for the wind and snow was beating us to death. Got home to a parking ban on the streets so i got to shovel more snow for a couple more hours . I can tell you now that I hate snow and cold weather, can't wait for spring.....thought I did enough for the day and decide not to ride my Trainer.

Today was Val-day and Amy made a bunch of sugar cookies, I set there and eat way to many.I don't know if i was flying on a sugar overload but when i did my HR intervals I felt great..I don't recommend eating cookies all the time but it was a great pick me up. Time for bed.. if I can sleep......

So it begins...

2007-02-11T22:28:00.000-06:00

Tonight was the first night of my official training for the year. I have had a few nights where I have hit the trainer off and on and ridden in the woods whenever possible. Tonight was my first round of hr intervals. Went pretty well, only an hour and fifteen minutes of riding. Staying easy to moderate for the next 3 weeks. My schedule is to ride a minimum of 4 days on the bike, 2 days of lifting and one rest day.

I hope I can keep this schedule but as of right now life is extremely busy. Howie, Stauby and I have the jersey's we have been designing almost ready to go. I can't wait to get the template back from the company. Hoping the weather breaks here soon so I can get out and hit the trails and not completely rely on the trainer. Getting tired, time to go to bed.

2007-01-07T20:10:00.000-06:00

I have been extremely busy the last couple of days so I will play catch up .Friday was supposed to be an easy day of lifting and riding the trainer but with all the commotion around the house all I got to do is lift, felt pretty good but around 3/4 threw my workout I started feeling a little pain in my right elbow and decided to call it quits for the night. Think it was just fatigue from a hard day's work....

yesterday I was going to hit the trainer for hour or two but the wife and I needed to get out of the house without the kids. We went out to dinner and than we hit a couple sporting goods stores,let me tell you it's been a long time since the wife and I got to go out without the little ones, it was nice!!

Mike decided to move yesterday's trialcare day to today because all the recent rain. It went really well, I would say there was around thirteen people that showed up to help us carry and assemble the twenty+ foot bridge, we started at noon and where done by 3:00. Was supposed to go for a group ride after trial work but the trails were still too wet so I came home and hit the trainer for one hour of easy riding with a few hard efforts.

2007-01-03T20:26:00.000-06:00

I wanted to post yesterday, but I helped a friend build a bike up for his woman. I expected it to take about an hour but it ended up taking over 2. Had to disassemble his old bike and reinstall on the newer frame. All in all it went really well. We had a good time building and watching Never Enough Dirt.

Tonight I worked out on the weight bench. I was really happy with the amount of weight I can lift, since I haven't lifted since last winter. My goal is to be able to max 250 by the end of February and I lifted 195 fairly easily tonight. Had my wife spot me just in case and all she said is you had better be able to lift this! Last year I got 225, so 250 might be a stretch. Looking forward to a ride here soon, but may have to resort to the trainer. Got lucky and rode 3 times in the woods last week before the rains.

Talked to Staubinator and we are planning on installing a new bridge I built for BP this Saturday. This will be the 2nd 20 ft.+ bridge that we have built for this trail system. Should cut out two nasty creek crossings. Hope everything goes well.

The New Year

2007-01-01T23:14:00.000-06:00

All right...I have been wanting to start up a blog for awhile and just have not gotten enough time to figure this all out. I have a few friends who have blogs and have come to realize that this is a great place to discuss stuff. I have always been one of those people that took my training pretty seriously but never really kept great records of it, so I thought this would help out a ton. I look forward to posting a lot more, but since it has taken me awhile to set this up...I am going to say goodnight for now.
PS This has spell check! Great, I really need it!!