| Author | Message | ||
     Luvthemtorts |
Nuts, I wanted to share my disappointment with a buddy to hopefully get some of your sage wisdom. My 3 mile marathon never came to fruition this year. I'm still plugging along, doing 15-20 miles a week. I've shaved my first mile down to a little less than 10 minutes but then my second mile takes 14 minutes. The third mile is 16 minutes due to having to walk some of the distance. As an avid hiker, jogger, what would you recommend? Slow down the first mile and hope I get better averages and stamina or stick with it and hope the muscles build up? Oddly enough, it isn't my cardio that gives out, it's the lactic acid burn in my legs. Help a brutha' out when you get a few minutes. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Buy a heart rate monitor and set your goal at 150 bpm for 36 mins. Make sure you're using good"exagerrated" form. Legs should never be straight, always bent: absorbing shock and propelling you forward, no crashing. Keep at the three mile mark and work at lowering the total time. Minute to minute doesn't matter. When yo drive the car, sometimes your're doing 55mph sometimes 25mph. Look further ahead at your goals brother. On another note: I waited out a foxy this morning at the farm for an hour. Head shot him at 55 yds and watched him fall ten feet down, only to get hung up on another limb. Blood everywhere and my foxy stuck for owl bait. Whe we going? | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
Thanks brudda'! I'm currently using the 1/4 mile track over behind the middle school on 221 if you wanna stop by for a jog. I think my form is good since I'm not having any joint problems after 4 months. You bring up a good point about overall time. Seems I always try to get closer to that magic 7minute mile and The rest of my workout suffers for it. I'll be following your advice and getting a HR monitor, but I hope I don't get fixated on it. As of now, by the time I'm done I'd say I'm likely at 70-80% max but it doesn't scare me because I'm not seeing how fast it's actually beating LOL. Bummer about your foxy. Wish we could make it up to the farm together but we never seem to be able to make it happen. I want to see those giants running through the trees. I'm still on egg watch. The new gecko project is extremely high dollar so I'm pretty much stuck watching them via closed circuit tv all night, and sleep all day. I hate it after being back on a normal schedule for several months, but these guys are rare, expensive, and in high demand, so it's a priority.  | ||
| Nutsosane |
Picked up a new toy for enjoying the Parkway yesterday. Pics in the sunshine to follow. | ||
| Nutsosane |
As promised.  | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Nice Scoot, Nuts  | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
PS....Good lookin offspring there,Jaxson.  | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
Thanks Charlie! I was starting to get a bit worried about you. Glad to see you pop in just to let us know things are well. How'd the summer treat you down yonder? Nuts, I recently took up fortune telling and I see a speeding ticket in your future  | ||
| Nutsosane |
want to ride this afternoon? Send me a text. nuts | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Jaxson, When you get to be my age, you really don't want to wish your life away.......but, I sure will be glad when cool weather gets here.This place is H*ll in the summer.Those Gecko's roast good on a stick?  | ||
| Nutsosane |
57* last night Charlie. Been a fine few days to ride. NUTS | ||
| Nutsosane |
First doe down for the year. Been hunting hard all week. We ate a freezer full this last year and hope to do the same in 2013. She only ran 40 yards after a 25yd shot.  | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
Fine job Nuts! You have become quite the outdoorsman and I have no doubts you have surpassed any wisdom I may have had at one time. On my end, same old story. I have tried to get back into squirrel hunting and have killed several during the Spring and a few this Fall, unfortunately, the sadness just won't go away. I believe my hunting career is now officially over, however, I do take handouts | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
That's just lame.  | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
I know Charlie! I knew it was getting out of control when I started feeling guilty about chucking crickets in with the geckos. I used to watch the animals eat, now I throw the crickets in and check back later. I think it stems from realizing my own mortality and not wanting to steal the life from something else. I know it's hypocritical, but I guess it's like the vast majority of Americans who love meat but want to be oblivious of the steps it took to go from hoof to plate. | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
I was just pullin your tail feathers. When I lived in Buchanan, I got so used to seeing the deer in the yard and around the house that I had no desire to shoot them.They were just yard animals, like my dogs. I had a ten pointer that would stand between an old spruce and my bedroom window two or three mornings when i'd get up to go to work. I'd come home in the evening and there would be a dozen or more blocking my drive way, they were like pets. Now the squirrels, that's a different story. Those varmints would eat the copper wiring off my cars.I'd sit on the "john" and shoot them out my bathroom window.  | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
I knew you was just yanking my chain Charlie . So let me get this mental picture straight just so there is no confusion. You'd sit on the pot, and shoot squirrels out the bathroom window. Please tell me this didn't involve having your trousers down and a magazine as well, because it's burning a hole into my brain. | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
It was just the perfect vantage point. It opened to my parking area behind the house and the would perch on top of the basketball goal waiting on the morning fog to lift. As far as pants down and magazine....well I'll have to leave that to your imagination.  | ||
| Nutsosane |
Dumbest hunting question ever asked... How do you make deer go away when it's time to climb out of the tree and head home? I tried whistling, snorting, grunting and finally shaking a tree limb while making various noises. That spike just wouldn't go away and it was dark. tough problem to have I know. | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Just so I really understand....are you bragging or complaining? You weren't afraid of that Lil'Ole spike in the dark were you.  | ||
| Nutsosane |
No Charlie I wasn't skeered, but I didn't want to spook him and every other 4 legged critter within a country mile. I'd like to find a way to get them moving away but not alarming SW Virginia. The piece of property I hunt is small and I try to hunt every day of the season, many times from the same stand. I'm also focusing on taking does, I don't need the horn unless they are bigger than the ones I collected last year. | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
Nuts, Unfortunately you have to ride it out most times. I've been there myself and have had to sit in the woods for well over an hour past legal hunting hours. You can try anything that will spook them without associating it with a human or predator, however you run the risk of being seen and once that whistle goes up, and the pheromones are released, your spot may be ruined for a spell. Moral of the story, take a pee bottle and some extra snacks so you can settle in for the long haul. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Thanks buddy. Like many things, there's no easy way. You been riding at all?  Charlie, I saw a clean S1 for sale in Vinton recently; red with a silver frame. I was mildly tempted. | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Nuts, to my knowledge you have never ridden an S1....don't. It is 100 % hooligan bike and you would wind up buying it.Unless you can do the work yourself, the cost of making it back to it's original state would be huge. I love those bikes...I put an S1 tank and tail section on mine, nobody walks by without looking.(most don't know what their looking at)It just gives an attitude that makes you want more. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Been pretty busy with the little one home and hunting in season. Hope all is well with the rest of you. NUTS | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Ah, Nuts. What little one? You get a puppy? | ||
| Luvthemtorts |
All well here. Numerous eggs in the incubator, hatchlings in the holding pens, adults doing well, kid got a scholarship letter, and I'm fat again. That's what happens when you grow complacent . Keep that in mind Lance. Are you doing alright with the new addition? I thought of you when I saw they stripped your Tour de France titles and you lost your sponsors. How you been Charlie? You still kickin it in high gear down there, or have you found yourself stuck in first? | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Jaxson, You need to lay off the snack food while watching your four legged underlings making porno movies in your basement.  Congrats on the scholarship letter...college is very expensive these days and she will need to make a lot of money to support you in your old age.  I hated to see the doping thing polluting the USA Team and I really admired Armstrong and his battle back from cancer, he is a hell of an athlete in my book. I meet him along time ago in Buchanan during the Tour DuPont, forget the year.A more balanced rider then(still had two)He stood apart from the others even then. I hate the whole "doping culture", but I still admire the guy. Alright Nuts...I'm waiting(new addition)??? AS for me... same ole same ole. Did try a 1/4 T throttle on the Buell, but soon took it off. It was scary in this bumper to bumper traffic.Great wheelie's though. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Yep, I'm officially a full-time, stay-home dad. Our little girl has us up at all hours and we just can't get enough. Had to cool my motorcycling jets for a bit but hope to get in a good dirt road ride this Sunday. Sold my trials bike to Todd G, though his Mrs. thinks he's holding it for me so my wife won't keep on me to sell it. Crazy! Three does in the freezer and hopefully a handful more, haven't bought commercial meat in over a year. This year I'm getting most of it in steaks and fat-free ground. Enjoy that fine winter in S. Carolina and some Vinegar BBQ! NUTS | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Nuts, Congrats on the daughter, she will become your partner in crime,your Right hand man,etc...Never had a daughter, but have several grand daughters, there awesome.Take her riding while she is young and she will develop great balance. Then we can make a racer out of her.  Don't tell your wife. |
