This could possibly be the best part of any cycling website – Pez’s Daily Distractions.

Check out this link for October’s Distractions. I’m sure you will enjoy it!

And if you want in on the action, this is how it’s done.

Since this blog is kind of a case-study about my fitness and training, I figured I should talk a bit about drinking and how it fits into the mix. (Drinking alcohol, that is…)

I’m not much of a drinker since it doesn’t fit in too well with intense training, but now that I am 21, I have had the chance to check out some very nice looking stores that were previously off limits. And I just couldn’t help but sample some of these products .

I had never been really, legitimately drunk before, so I figured this past Wednesday was a perfect time to try it out. I wanted to get an idea of what it was like to be drunk and to have a hangover. A learning experience, if you will.

So late into the evening I busted out a Colt 45 to start things off. That was 40 oz of malt liquor in a short period of time. I was feeling the alcohol by the time I finished, but I was really feeling the 40 oz of fluid hit my stomach. After this I went over to a friend’s place and was immediately handed another beer. Oh, the joys of college!

A little later on I passed out on his floor. I woke up without even realizing what happened, since I wasn’t actually asleep. It was more like zoning out to a greater degree. But after all that I just chilled out, zoned out some more on the couch, and possibly got some sleep.

I tried to stay in bed most of Thursday to rest up for the upcoming 5k, and the alcohol helped keep me from exerting myself, so it all worked out OK! I could still feel everything sloshing in my stomach though, so that sucked.

Lesson learned: If I want to get drunk in the future, I’ll go with hard alcohol

Anyway, I feel great today, and I know what it’s like to be drunk. I’d call that a success.

This article was pretty interesting. It explains why you struggle to maintain your weight loss, and I had never heard it broken down like this.

Check out the article:

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Sick of iceberg lettuce? Who isn’t!?

I found a nice article about the other greens that are actually dark green and colorful, and full of nutrients.

But gone are the days when a salad was a wedge of iceberg lettuce dotted with a few radish and tomato slices. Nowadays, a lovely assortment of feathery, frilly, curled and serrated “greens” — some actually in beautiful shades of red, purple and burgundy — adorn the produce section, beckoning to become part of a salad.

Check it out:

http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=13498

Not really.  And neither does pasta.  That’s just one of the stupid myths that is still going around these days.

As an athlete, you need these foods.  And they’re not as bad as you think.  Normally I wouldn’t bother giving you a link to an article about this, but I found one that is actually useful.  It’s also written by Nancy Clark.  So check it out:

http://active.com/story.cfm?story_id=13543