- After having a good race in Kona, but sub-optimal (broken spoke on my front wheel with massive rubbing for 65+ miles, very poor pacing on the run), my only desire for IMAZ was to qualify for Kona 2012. No time goals, no place goals, no split targets – nothing mattered except qualifying. Despite having an opportunity …
Read More Excellence should be demanded by our peers. Labeling those that demand excellence as haters, bashers, etc only promotes mediocrity. -Paulo Sousa
Paulo laid this gem on twitter a few days ago, interestingly enough mediocrity was referenced again when I checked google reader this morning by Coach Troy – “…Someone, …
Read MoreEven though it is only October 17th, and many of us have one or more races on the books for 2011, the 2012 triathlon season is upon us.
The work done starting now and over the next few months is crucial to how you will be able to prepare for your A race next summer, and ultimately how you will be able to perform at …
Read MorePre-race
The last 2 weeks of training leading into Kona were perfect. In many ways some of my workouts were so good it was frightening. I honestly couldn’t remember the last time I felt this good so early in relation to a big race. Based on my final benchmark workouts “ I felt that a time in the 9:09 to 9:20 range …
Read MoreTomorrow when I enter the waters of Kailua Bay in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – I go to war.
It is not me against them. It is not me against you. It is me against me.
There will be moments of glory, moments of pain.
There will be moments where I will feel invincible, moments where I want to quit.
This is normal, for what I …
Read More- Recently I haven’t been the type of person to talk up my training. I follow to many blogs with folks constantly talking about how ready they are and that they are going to kill it – only to blow up spectacularly. As a result I’ve tried to keep my blog posts the last few years on the topic of – ponderings, and other …
Read More For whatever reason the last 12 months or so I have become a running shoe junky – or perhaps just very picky. I don’t know why, but I have. I thought I would post my impressions on the shoes I’ve tried over the last year.
New Balance 904 – I’ve run in every NB 900 shoe since the 900. The 904 was definitely my …
Read MoreThis season has been filled with a multitude of starts, false starts and changes of direction for me – me searching for a secret that I thought I was missing (but in truth I had). If you’ve read my blog with any regularity over the years or months – you’ll have seen the last few months contain a few themes: a lack …
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