Took the swim pretty relaxed, no rush on the swim.  Got taken to school by a couple high school kids and towed the last 75 yards for a VERY VERY easy float into T2 “ ~5:50 @ touch.

Bike:
I intended to keep the real time watts +- 300, but tempered with the reality of the potential for a tactical ride (which never …

This past weekend marked my 5th completion of the Triple-T in 6 attempts.  I’ll post a more detailed race report in a bit after I get it written up, but I have some brief thoughts.

Matt and I ended up as the third place overall Male team.  When you consider the level of competition at the race, that’s a pretty solid …

It’s certainly been a while since I posted.  Reasons for the long gap include, but are not limited to

• Laziness (for writing)
• Disillusion with triathlon
• Craziness in life
• Even more craziness in life

Fortunately – even though I haven’t posted much I’ve been training consistently and am in a pretty good place. …

Despite what we have been lead to believe, the devil is NOT in the details.

The devil is the details, and the devil is very distracting and seductive.

Focus on the forest as a whole.  If you find yourself focusing on any specific tree, catch your self and go for a walk.

A breakthrough is the result of training spent using the following ratios as guidelines:

30% work

70% rest

So the last few weeks have seen me getting into a mood for writing, but after couple of posts talking about my view on season planning, I’m sort of drawing a blank on what to write about.

If there’s any subject (triathlon/athletics training/philosopy related only please) that you’d like to get *my* opinion on, leave a …

Last week I posted what I consider to be the last step in planning out your season.  I then realized that while I laid out *my* season plan, I didn’t go a lot into my thought process behind it.

An athletic season can be thought of as a project with defined time-lines. It has an outcome: perhaps winning a race, …