How about a little of both?

As I mentioned in the race report for Tri-ing for Childrens, I had a pretty satisfactory race.  Strong swim, decent bike, and weak run.  Yesterday after the race I rode home from the race and pondered the question – Why did I run not much faster today than I did last weekend at SORT? …

The goal for this race was simple and straight forward – crack two hours, with a secret goal of winning the race.  I knew that winning would be a tall order as there were a bunch of speedy guys entered.

My game plan was to swim HARD and put as much pavement between myself and the fast runners in the race (Joe Kurian, …

The picture today is a shot from probably the most epic stage in cyling history.  It’s a gentle reminder to myself that success comes from working hard – even if it doesn’t seem like fun – especially because when you look back – it might have been fun.  However, it needs to be tempered with working easy.

Racine …

The goal for SORT was to simply have a great race.  Going into the race the intention was:

Bike:
0-20′ EZ, use PM to stay easy
20′- 65/70′ 240-250 Real Time
65/70′-End “ 250-260 Real Time

Run:
First loop: Target 44 minutes (avoid last years mistake)
Second loop: Faster than first

Swim: 21:32
4th OA

I started out at a …

I’m working on my race report for SORT yesterday.  Long story short it was a good race.  I was the first person out of the water – hopefully somebody got a good picture of me in my Gear Grinder kit!  Swim was short, but fast.

The bike went really well I averaged 252 (257 NP) on the bike.  Higher than my average power …

Shannon and gang
I wanted to offer you a few pieces of feedback from today’s SORT race.

First off I am a huge fan of your races. I have done SORT 5 times now, and have done the TTT 4 times, and plan to do it a 5th next year. Up until this year I considered SORT to be equal to or only slightly behind Ironman races in …

Figured it was time for an update.  After embarrasing performances at my last couple of races – namely Elkhart Lake and High Cliff I finally had a good race.

This past weekend I returned to Stevens Point to defend my win last year, I wasn’t going alone as I had managed to convince Matt, his wife, and Mary to …

In the past I’ve always had a picture, phrase or something to really drive the wimpyness out of me.  My reminder that I needed to HTFU.

After my dismal performance at High Cliff, Mary said it was probably time for a new one – I found it last night while reading Triathlete magazine:

..each morning I wake up and take a …

Recently Gordo posted an excellent blog entry on his site.  It never fails to seem that whenever I am having some floundering thoughts about things, Gordo always seems to write something that drives deeply into the precise subject I am thinking about. 

The short summary of his recent post is that over the last several …