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Rudy Project Rydon II Sport Sunglasses
The Rydon II Sport sunglasses from Rudy Project are a stylish lightweight design that is great for cycling, running or just casual wear.
Rudy Project Rydon II Sport White Pearl With Ls.blue Racing Red Lenses
Rudy Project has re-engineered their Rydon profile with a smaller eye shape for reduced geometric wraparound. Loaded with all the Rydon features, the Rydon II offers a sleek and comfortable look for performance seekers with smaller faces. Unifying seamlessly advanced design technology and materials science, the Rydon II blends cutting-edge ergonomic features with advanced materials to create a super-lightweight, versatile, high performance and elegant sunglass.
In addition to the variety of Rydon II frame styles/colors, there is a lens for everything.
- Rudy Project Polycarbonate RP Optics lenses provide 100% UVA/UVB protection and a CONTRAST LENS is best to enhance depth perception and color while a NEUTRAL LENS is best to give you the darkest coverage possible.
- Rudy Project’s ImpactX™ Photochromic Lens Technology represents the most advanced solution for vision protection in the sunglass market… (+ 100% UVA/UVB Protection)
- Rudy Project’s Polar 3FX Polarized Lens Technology contains unique light absorption molecular properties to enhance contrast and depth perception… (+ 100% UVA/UVB Protection)
- Rudy Project’s Polarized ImpactX™ Photochromic Lens Technology represents the most advanced solution for vision protection in the sunglass market… (+ 100% UVA/UVB Protection)
With additional lenses you can customize your Rydon II glasses and have a high quality lens for any weather/lighting condition. And new from Rudy Project; you can further customize your Rydon II‘s with temple tips and nose tabs available in assorted colors.
Training for my first dualthons, it’s now “crunch time”
With less than two weeks left before my first duathlon race, it’s now “crunch time” for training. I’ve always been athletic, but as far as running goes, it’s been several years since I had run for fitness. So, when cyclocross season ended for me in December, I started a run training program. The 9 weeks to a 5k training program is a great program for anyone. And, it was great for me too. It’s not designed to make me a top 5k runner, but it is great for training my muscles for a consistent run to compliment my cycling. My goal was to run the occasional 5k and to race the occasional duathlon.
Biking through the winter off season, running the treadmill a couple times a week and everything going great with my training, I suddenly encountered a mysterious knee injury. With a significant amount of pain in the outside of my knee, all workout activity was immediately put on hold. If I could have put walking on hold too, I would have. Thinking that maybe I was just over doing a bit, I iced my knee often and waited a few days to see what would happen and how it would feel. No change. I finally went to see my doctor. X-rays were negative, meaning no sign of a stress fracture. That’s a relief. However, it was more than likely a strained LCL. I still had stability in my knee so it didn’t appear to be severed. That’s good news. But only an MRI would verfy any damage to the LCL. Most activity had to be completely put on hold for a few weeks.
So with about 3 week of pretty intense PT and rehab using moist heat, electro-stimulation, massage and easy pedaling, my knee was virtually pain free. And now it feels better than before the injury.
With feeling no effect from the injury while cycling, I have raced one mountain bike race and one road time trial race. But I haven’t run until yesterday. I felt good, but the run was definitely much slower than I thought it would be. I was actually surprised how quickly my muscles change away from running.
Now it’s time to get back to running and prepare for three weekends of short duathlon races. The three races are 1.5 mile run/8 mile bike/1.5 mile run. So, even with this setback, I’m pretty sure I can handle the runs.
Winter training, cross training…Keep it fun
My off season started earlier than many of my cycling friends’ off season. While there is still a few week of cyclocross left in the season, I decided to take a break earlier than I have in the past. I’m not racing into December (last race was mid-November), but I’m still training. Part of the off season is to take a break from your sport, in my case cycling. You don’t want to get burned out by being hardcore for 12 months of the year. You take a break because you need a break. In my case I continue to train, but I’m training much different than I have all season and different than I have in the past. I’ve incorporated running into my off season training. I’ve done this for a few different seasons:
- to take a break from cycling
- to “train” my legs for running (helps cyclocross too)
- I actually feel good after a run
- planning duathlon racing in 2012
As I’ve said in a previous post, I’m starting from scratch with my running. Start off easy and gradually work my way to longer distances and to getting faster. But I also need to make sure that I don’t lose my cycling legs. I’ve done a lot of research on training plans for run, for bike and for winter training…and there is a wealth of information out there. Many of the winter training plans have a common theme to them: go easy…lower intensity…don’t get burned out…incorporate other activities (xc ski, snowshoe, run). So, in addition to winter mountain biking or exercise bike, I’m mixing in treadmill running too. I have put together a training plan that I don’t think will get stale…3 days bike, 3 days run, alternating days. It might seem stale to some people, but for me, I need a structured plan during the winter months. It’s just to easy to say, “I’ll do it tomorrow”.
9 Weeks to Running a 5k
