- Well I’m officially done recovering from Ironman Arizona – at least according to the training plan. Looking back at Arizona I’m still amazed at how well I did. It was by no means a perfect race, but wow – 9:46 with a flat tire. Not only that I wasn’t even phased when I got the flat. A year or two ago I would have been …
Read More As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve accomplished the goal I have been driving for since I signed up for my first Ironman in September of 2004. At the time I set the goal, I thought it would be easy.
As I learned at Ironman Wisconsin in September 2005, it wasn’t going to be easy. It was going to take a lot of hard …
Read MoreWell it’s catch up time. Not in the sense that I have training to catch up on, but it’s time to bring my blog up to date with things, and spend a little time working on the website.
Where to begin? Well Ironman Arizona was a great success. It wasn’t a perfect race, but it was pretty darn close. I won’t go into to much …
Read MoreThis is the second time I’ve tried to write this (the IE window got closed on the first try).
Fortunately for you that means all the boring garbage I wrote about the days before the race will get surmised into this:
- Mary swam with me in the lake without a wetsuit, she’s tough!
- The desert …
Read More- It’s very close to the race now, so close that I can feel it. In fact one week from know it will all be over. In fact one week from now I’ll be sitting at the awards dinner chowing on some good food. I’ll know the results of the race, how I did, how others did. And it will all be in the past. I’ll have a nice week of …
Read More Two weeks.
14 days. It’s been a long cycle so far, and that’s all that’s left. My training is pretty much done – at this point there are only a few more days of potential fitness gains before the race, after that all I can do is tire myself out.
Training has been going pretty good. I’ve had some rough days – mostly …
Read MoreHave had a couple great workouts since my last post. Good to the point where it makes you nervous.
To start with yesterday I had a great swim in the morning – a broken Ironman distance (3×150 EZ + 2×250,2×500,1×750, 1×1000). The main set was fast – I got through 1500 meters in 19 minutes swimming time, and finished up …
Read MoreI’ve had some thoughts lately rolling around my head – mainly focused around seeking out “sponsors” to help support my athletics. Why? It’s expensive doing triathlons.
There are a couple of items I’d really like to get to help my triathlon racing and training advance – hopefully to the next level. The two key things …
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