I have no idea what the true reader base of my blog is or how “powerful” it is.  I know I get about 50 unique visitors per day, so I thought I would the word about an issue I’ve been having with my Cycleops Cervo computer – aka Little Yellow Computer (LYC).

Mine is running firmware 7.6, and while on the bike all the …

My wife kicked some serious ass yesterday.  She PR’d by a huge 14 minutes yesterday at the Lakefront Marathon – and I was thrilled to be running with her every step of the way.

Not only that but she ran fast enough to qualify for Boston should she want to do that!!!

If I had to sum 2010 up with a single sentence I think the only one that would be appropriate would be “Wow, what a ride.”

In 2010, I had periods of time in which I was both the least fit and most fit of any other time period over the last 6 or 7 years.

In 2010, I both rediscovered the true joy that I experience while …

Ironman #8 is in the books – and boy was it one for the books.  I ended up with a PR by about 10 minutes – 2nd in my AG, and 23rd overall.  That performance earned me my second trip to Kona.

A big congrats goes out to Matt and Adrienne Amman who both had great days and qualified along with 4 other Gear Grinders – for a …

Disgregard if you do not care or are easily intimidated.  This is mainly for my benefit for future reference and to lay out the work.  So it is not going to be written well or in an organized fashion.  It’s a brain dump.

This taper has been interesting.

Key workout #1: 2:30 Bike + 45 minute run (build to HIM) – Quite …

To kick off this series of write ups, lets talk about my original taper plan – and move on to the revised taper plan.  The original taper for Ironman this year is the result of feeling flat last yearat both IMWI and IMFL. 

Prior to both races – particularly IMWI I had some incredible workouts.  One of which was a 112 …