Pleasant Prairie is one of my favorite races, this was my 8th time competing at Pleasant Prairie. I enjoy doing it because it provides an objective point of view on my year-to-year progress. Last year I was 3rd Overall, and my goal for this year was to equal that or better.

Swim
19:28 (4th OA)

Pleasant Prairie does …

This weekend I had intended to do a repeat of last weeks IM Race sim, however it didn’t quite workout that way. At somepoint during the week I decided to do the Camp Whitcomb/Mason Triathlon (“500m” Swim/22 mile Bike/5k run) on Sunday with the Race Sim workout on Saturday.

I thought it was a good idea to sign up for …

Last week was a pretty decent week of training – aside from slacking on Sunday (0) by deciding to switch those workouts to today. But I did go watch the Bradford Beach Triathlon and the WORS race at Crystal Ridge.

I was fairly impressed by the Bradford Beach Triathlon – it seemed to be pretty well organized, which was …

The goal for this race was simple and straight forward – crack two hours, with a secret goal of winning the race. I knew that winning would be a tall order as there were a bunch of speedy guys entered.

My game plan was to swim HARD and put as much pavement between myself and the fast runners in the race (Joe Kurian, …

The goal for SORT was to simply have a great race. Going into the race the intention was:

Bike:
0-20′ EZ, use PM to stay easy
20′- 65/70′ 240-250 Real Time
65/70′-End – 250-260 Real Time

Run:
First loop: Target 44 minutes (avoid last years mistake)
Second loop: Faster than first

Swim: 21:32
4th OA

I started out at a …

I’m working on my race report for SORT yesterday. Long story short it was a good race. I was the first person out of the water – hopefully somebody got a good picture of me in my Gear Grinder kit! Swim was short, but fast.

The bike went really well I averaged 252 (257 NP) on the bike. Higher than my average power …