I started off writing this post yesterday. A day where I showed up at the YMCA – at zero-dark AM – to swim indoors for the first time in weeks, only to find the pool closed for some maintenance issue, leading me to toss on my running clothes and do my hard run for the week, with the plan of finding a different pool to …

Well I’ve had my blog offline for a while for various reasons, and I finally got back around to getting it back up!

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well -Duke of Albany (King Lear by William Shakespeare) I started this post about two weeks before Ironman Arizona, then got distracted by life. After the race I wanted to make this post a mixture of a season review and a statement of the plan going forward into 2016. To that end I …

I am pretty wired after the day today, so I figured it may be an interesting thought experiment to capture my postrace thoughts before heading to bed tonight, especially since the plan is to try to unplug from triathlon and the world for the rest of the week while at the Grand Canyon. There’s no need to dive into the …

Up until the last couple of years prior to every big race, I would sit down and gather my thoughts into a “concrete” race plan. This forced me to take some time and create an outline of how I want my day to unfold, and it also gives me something to compare the actual outcome of the race to, allowing me to review the …

After Racine, I let myself dial back my training and overall focus on triathlon. I had already dialed things back a fair bit after Texas, but I wanted to get myself in a situation where I was mentally and physically 100% ready to attack the block of training leading into Ironman Arizona. I did not significantly change …

Well my writing time last week was devoted to documenting the results of my wetsuit testing, so I didn’t get around to doing the weekly update, so this one is a twofer. While I seem to have solved the swim issue, my bike fit continues to be a work in progress, after playing around with shortening the reach and it …

As I have mentioned in my last couple posts, I’ve spent some time since Ironman Texas pondering the impact of a wetsuit on my swim. I decided that rather than ponder about it and do nothing, I was going to take action and gather some data and based on that data I would be more informed about my options to improve my …

Barely made this update before the end of the week after it’s updating. It’s been a busy week this week. Between work and family activities, I haven’t had a lot of free time. After pondering a lot last week about my swimming and the potential impact of a wetsuit I’ve decided that I’m going to do some testing. I’m going …

This picture sums up pretty well how I feel right now. Strong and feeling in the chase. The adjustments I’ve made to my fit appear to keep paying dividends, I’m feeling strong on both the bike and run (and the swim) – and the metrics agree with how I feel. I’m happy to say that I’ve posted *something* to my blog six …