After Racine, I let myself dial back my training and overall focus on triathlon. I had already dialed things back a fair bit after Texas, but I wanted to get myself in a situation where I was mentally and physically 100% ready to attack the block of training leading into Ironman Arizona. I did not significantly change …

Well my writing time last week was devoted to documenting the results of my wetsuit testing, so I didn’t get around to doing the weekly update, so this one is a twofer. While I seem to have solved the swim issue, my bike fit continues to be a work in progress, after playing around with shortening the reach and it …

As I have mentioned in my last couple posts, I’ve spent some time since Ironman Texas pondering the impact of a wetsuit on my swim. I decided that rather than ponder about it and do nothing, I was going to take action and gather some data and based on that data I would be more informed about my options to improve my …

This picture sums up pretty well how I feel right now. Strong and feeling in the chase. The adjustments I’ve made to my fit appear to keep paying dividends, I’m feeling strong on both the bike and run (and the swim) – and the metrics agree with how I feel. I’m happy to say that I’ve posted *something* to my blog six …

Last week was a good for the most part. On both Tuesday and Thursday my quality workouts did not go as well as they have been for the past few weeks. I suspect that Elkhart Lake was still holding me back a bit. Swimming is going quite well, I’ve only been swimming three times a week since Texas to help facilitate …

About 10 years ago, shortly after finishing my first Ironman I wrote down on a sheet of paper that I wanted to finish as the first amateur at an Ironman race. On November 20th, 2011 I made good on that goal. Twelve days after that I sat in my dining room and hammered out the follow-on goal and what I believed it would …

I signed up for Ironman Texas last fall, about a month after finding out that we were expecting Evelyn. I’m not exactly sure what my motivation to do so was. It didn’t seem likely I would take a Kona spot, given that I was intending to do Ironman Arizona too. Which meant that if things went according to plan, we would …

Train at appropriate intensities, not arbitrary intensities.

Well because I’m an idiot I had to roll my blog back to a rather old copy, which didn’t include a lot of the added content like pictures, or miscellenous files I have posted over the years. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of those pictures did not get captured by archive.org, so they are more or less gone. I’m …

Tomorrow I’ll be embarking on my fifteenth Ironman triathlon. On the surface there is nothing overly special to me about the number 15. It’s not considered lucky, it’s not a prime number, it’s just a nice round number, half way between 10 and 20. What is more significant about tomorrow, is that I have directed a lot of …