- Today is day 56 since my surgery. I’ve gone from walking into a surgery center and reading a book prior to surgery, to hobbling out high on Percocet (which didn’t do much for my pain). Since then I’ve progressed from getting around on crutches with a splint, which turned into a hard cast, which is now finally a boot. …
Read More Can you think of a better way to spend the holidays as a totally helpless gimp? I can, but being a gimp is actually sort of enjoyable.
I did a lot of thinking going into my surgery. When I first decided to have a screw put in to hold the fracture together, I planned out a return to activity and was planning to work …
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again. No major races, taking things a bit easy, looking back on the year that is wrapping up, and looking forward to the year that is upcoming.
I usually find myself looking forward to the next year as being full of possibilities in life, work, triathlon and all things in general. …
Read MoreA few rows down from where I sit in my Cubie Farm – there is a whiteboard that tends to have a thoughtful quote on it. I make a habit of walking by the whiteboard every morning to see if there is a new quote or not.
Yesterday I was rewarded with this gem:
The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. …
Read More- Received some feedback from a friend that the analysis posted yesterday was fairly one dimensional – focusing primarily on volume and ignoring intensity and other fitness related benchmarks.
Read More - So ends another season of triathlon. I wish that I could say otherwise, I wish that I could be OK with my season because I had a number of good races. The fact is I have a huge burden of disappointment right now. I had a solid race at Racine, as well as a few solid sprint races – but the rest of my season was …
Read More We did not have an alarm clock in our room, so I set both cell phones and one of my watches to wake us up. I set them staggered 5 minutes apart to make sure any sleepiness got kicked in the butt! Around 3:15 I woke up to use the bathroom, and in glancing at the clock on the microwave I thought it …
Read MoreFriday was a pretty uneventful day. We went down for a swim, and I did a short run. I skipped out on the bike because I broke the valve stem extender on my front tire “ and we had to spend some time searching for a way to fix it. I ended up just falling back to the previous valve extenders I had …
Read MoreThursday morning we woke up pretty early and walked down the beach to see the swim start. After spending a few minutes down there we walked back to our room and I put on my wetsuit and we walked back down there for a swim. I did one loop of the swim course “ trying to swim easy at what I felt would …
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