That’s me at Ironman Florida – 317. I think that’s a good number, primarily because it will give me a constant reminder to HTFU on the Marathon and run – need a run split under my bib number.
Training has been pretty good, I’m starting to feel pretty sharp. This past weekend I did a swim, followed by a long ride, …
Read More19 days from now I’ll be in Panama City Beach, FL and hopefully about 8 miles into the bike of IMFL. (It’s 8:15am as I write this).
I don’t know what to expect for the race right now. On the one hand, I have been fanatically watching the water temperature and am thrilled to see it come down to 74F, from the 84F it was …
Read More- Mary and I went up to Stevens Poin this past weekend for the biennial Alumni swimming meet.
Read More I had decided to do this race a couple of weeks before IMWI. I thought doing it would be fun, would force me to do a threshold workout, and make sure I had an intermediate target between IMWI and IMFL. Long story short, it was a success on all counts!
My wave was projected to start at 10:55 AM, so Mary, my parents …
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Yes, today’s title is a total rip off of Battlestar Galactica.
Yes, I know that it’s really 5 and a 1/2 weeks until IMFL.
So what is new in the last week and a half? Nothing worth mentioning, unless you consider winning a race and be diagnosed with an avulsion …
Read More- It’s been a little over a week since Ironman Wisconsin. First off, thanks to everyone for the postive thoughts and encouragement – it means a lot. One of the things that I truly feel is beneficial in life is to look back on exceedingly positive events and exceedingly negative events and analyze them as objectively as …
Read More Not quite sure what to say about IMWI at this point. I’m working on my full fledged race report, but the summary is –
Swim:
Started out and felt great, got into a good draft. Was easy and felt great (as compared to feeling exhausted and sloppy in the water on Saturday). About 1200m into the swim (half way on the …
Read MoreOnly a few days remain until IMWI – at this point nothing more to be done other than stay rested, safe, and doing a few snappy efforts to stay fresh.
Oh and execute the plan. My plan is best summed up by:
No matter how hard and smart you’ve trained, know the guy who is planning on taking your spot trained …
Read More- The next item in my list of things that helps you get through the incursion of reality in your Ironman race day (or any race day for that matter), is what I call the Ember (as of last night 8-)). In my head the ember is that thing down deep inside you, something that you can’t really describe to others, and may even …
Read More Just under two weeks until Madison. That last two weeks of training has been tough, challenging and most of all – exhausting.
A couple of posts ago I talked about my plan for the final two weeks. It had some high points, some low points, but I got through and am ready to rest and heal before the race.
I don’t want to …
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