- A new Race Report is up! I had the Pleasant Prairie Triathlon this past weekend. I am really happy with the result. It is a great boost in confidence and motivation builder for the last couple of weeks leading up to IMWI.
Read More - Last week I started to have a lot aniexty building about Ironman Wisconsin. With only a few weeks to go until the race – I felt my fitness was not where I had hoped to be, and that I had not done enough long rides, runs, etc. to even be able to finish the race in a "respectable" time – i.e. run the whole …
Read More My race report for the Spirit of Racine is up!
I’ve got to go back and post some for earlier races this year!
Read MoreI’ve learned a lot of things thus far in life. I can only imagine the knoweldge I’ll have gained over the next 20+ years of life – some of the high points:
- Slow and Steady does win the race – when you consider a race to be a goal or objective over several years
- It’s easier to do the work and let "it" come …
Read MoreMatt and I are in Stevens Point for a long training weekend and we found out there is a Sprint triathlon tomorrow.
We are going to do it. It will be awesome.
Then we’ll go ride 4 hours afterwards.
Read More- One of my biggest downfalls when it comes to triathlon (and before that swimming) is the expectations I place on myself. If I look back across all of my athletic career my best performances happened when I expected nothing, and usually when I least expected. Of course I have had many great performances when I …
Read More - I made a small change to the site last night. Not much, but it’s pretty cool. This site now offers an RSS feed that you can subscribe to using your preferred Feed Reader of choice. Simply add in http://www.cloudsandunicorns.com or </feed/rss/> and get notified whenever there is new content. I’ll add something …
Read More Yesterday as I was on the bike trainer for my long ride (yes I rode 5:30 on the trainer, and yes it was a very nice day – more on that later) I came to realize something. The folks out there that are fast, they are in a completely different Zip Code then I am.
How did I come to that realization – beyond the fact that …
Read More- Boy I’ve been pretty lax about updating my blog. On top of that I’ve been pretty lax about training. Well not to lax, but the past couple of months it seems as though I’m unable to string together more then about 10-12 days of solid workouts, then I have 10-12 days of off/on workouts. It’s made it really difficult …
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