Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Wine of the Month Club

I found this site that compiles a lot of lifestyle sites, gourmet sites, or any site with gift giving information. On the front page presents the Wine of the Month Club that is a competitions around wine clubs to be Club of the month. In this site you can order your gift from their selection of wines, with scheduled shipping to you. Special discounts to the club members. Here are the FAQ. If you don't like wine you can choose other club, form a vast list of clubs, for instance, beer club, cookie, club, ice cream club or movie club. I like the wine club :)

Forced rest week

Last weekend and this week until now, I did not run any day, because I have to much work to do. Only yesterday I could ran, I have a small slot of free time, but I was too much sleepy to got out training. I hope I can resume my weekly runs soon... After all the rest periods are also good to recover !

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Half-marathon

Soon I will do an half-marathon. I haven't choose yet, but I will look to the Portugal races calendar and choose one. Next I will do some specific training, just the minimum preparation for the race, and so I will start the real scheduled training program to do a fast (for me) half-marathon. I still have the goal of a 1h24m race...

Tawaret blog

This is a link to my personal blog, in portuguese language, and it's about nothing in particular: Tawaret Blog.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Running Shoes

Running Shoes is a running shoes shop, when you can find and buy the latest shoes for your training or race.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Products reviews

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Run in the morning

This week I run sometimes in the morning, even before the breakfast. I get the advice of some friends that it's good to run, just once in a while, in the morning, before you eat anything. The reason if something like to teach your muscules to get the energy, not from the normal energy source because you don't have it (you don't eat), but get it from the energy reserves in the fat or muscules. With this training the muscules will improve the way they collect the energy and use it more eficient in the other runs. I'm trying this approach during this week, because I have time.