Listening
Jun 20, 2014Before I go to far into the depths of my brain, first a long over-due update of the state of Scott. I’ve knocked out a few races this season and had some inconsistent results. I had intended to race 70.3 Worlds in Mont Treblanc via qualification at Kansas 70.3, but that didn’t work out. I didn’t get a slot outright, …
Read MoreHomecoming
Oct 8, 2013This past weekend it was Homecoming at UW-Stevens point, combined with it being an odd year – it meant that Mary, Ethan and I headed up for the biennial UWSP swimming alumni extravaganza. This meant the plan for the weekend was a laid back swim meet, hanging out with friends, drinking, and a breakfast at the Wooden …
Read MoreCatching Up
Sep 13, 2013Again, it’s been a while since my last post. Life has been keeping me busy, and for various reasons I haven’t been making the time to write – despite my desire at the end of the year to do it regularly. This season contained a few breakthroughs. On paper, looking at the results it’s not fully evident when you look at …
Read MoreOff on the wrong foot
May 11, 2013Well geez, I’m embarrassed to say that we are approaching the midpoint of the year, and I’m doing a pretty lousy job on some of my earlier stated goals for this year. The specifics of why I haven’t lived up to my goals are relatively unimportant, what’s important is that I failed to make daily choices that supported …
Read MoreThe Year Two Thousand and Thirteen
Dec 6, 2012A short post to share some of my targets and goals for 2013. Goals: Be present in the moment – enjoy every experience life offers me. Go for walks with my dog and son on a regular basis. Write a meaningful blog post every other week. Consume less. Sleep more. Eat well. Do not chase meaningless metrics in training. …
Read MoreMore Results
Nov 22, 2012The last two weeks have had some big results for a few of my athletes. Matt ran a PR in the 5k and broke 20 minutes for the first time “since the 90′s”. Nick blasted out a massive PR at 10k (3+ minutes) to finish second in the first race of the local Winter Running Series. Finally – Kendrick had a huge PR at Ironman …
Read More2012: Another chapter completed
Oct 25, 2012 Year in ReviewIt’s that time of year again – how did my triathlon season go? As a whole it went very good. There are parts of it that I’m not happy with and parts that I am happy with. Training: with the addition of a 2 year old to my family in April – there was a strong possibility that I would have issues doing the training …
Read MoreIronman World Championship 2012
Oct 15, 2012Pre-Race: After a pair of major breakthroughs at Kona and IMAZ last year, I set some admittedly lofty goals for myself this year at Kona. One of those goals was to finish in the top 5 in my Age Group; I figured a performance along the lines of IMAZ would put me in strong contention for this. We arrived on the Big …
Read MoreKona 2012
Oct 12, 2012I’ll post my race report shortly, but the long story short race report is such: Race week was magical and glittery. The few short efforts on the bike and run were a piece of cake. My typical pre-race 1,000 for time on Monday was crazy – 11:17 @ 1,000 SCY and 12:25 @ 1,100 SCY (basically 1,000 SCM). That all …
Read MoreBig Results
Sep 10, 2012While I’ve been pretty quiet about it, for the past year or so in addition to being a triathlete I’ve jumped into the role of triathlon coach. With some of the recent results my athletes have experienced I felt it high time to brag a little: A few weeks back Michele knocked out a 4th place in the W50-54 at Ironman NYC …
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