Clouds and Unicorns

Week Ending 2015-07-05
Jul 10, 2015 · 3 min read ·
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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 …
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Week Ending 2015-06-28
Jun 30, 2015 · 2 min read ·
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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 …

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Week Ending 2015-06-21
Jun 24, 2015 · 3 min read ·
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Last week was a good for the most part. On both Tuesday and Thursday my quality workouts did not go as well as they have been for the past few weeks. I suspect that Elkhart Lake was still holding me back a bit. Swimming is going quite well, I’ve only been swimming three times a week since Texas to help facilitate …
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Week Ending 2015-06-14
Jun 16, 2015 · 2 min read ·
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This past week was a really solid one. It ended with a good performance at Elkhart Lake. I’m really happy about how the race went. It wasn’t without it’s negatives – I was a bit sad faced about my bike split when I compare it to James/Blake/Andrew, but this was probably my best Olympic distance result in at least 4 …
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Week Ending 2015-06-07
Jun 8, 2015 · 3 min read ·
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This week was a very solid week. I successfully pulled my reach in a fair bit, and have been really happy with the results in how I feel on the bike, my power output, and how much my hip flexors have relaxed. I’m going to make the cut on the bars, which are currently uncut tri-rig extensions, although maybe I could …
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Week Ending 2015-05-31
Jun 1, 2015 · 4 min read ·
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This week I spent a lot of time focusing on my bike posture – I did some reading/searching about bike position, power loss and power sustainability. The highlight of what I found is summed up pretty well in an article by Steve Hogg. The synopsis of it is that our brains can only recruit so much muscle when you are …
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Week Ending 2015-05-24
May 25, 2015 · 2 min read ·
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In an effort to try and jump start my blog updates, which I find to be very cathartic, I’m going to try and post a weekly summary of my training. Being the week after an Ironman, this week was primarily focused on sleep and gluttony.
Monday was a zero, which was followed by a slow and easy 20 minute run on the …

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Committing
May 19, 2015 · 2 min read ·
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About 10 years ago, shortly after finishing my first Ironman I wrote down on a sheet of paper that I wanted to finish as the first amateur at an Ironman race. On November 20th, 2011 I made good on that goal. Twelve days after that I sat in my dining room and hammered out the follow-on goal and what I believed it …
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Treading Water in Texas
May 18, 2015 · 11 min read ·
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I signed up for Ironman Texas last fall, about a month after finding out that we were expecting Evelyn. I’m not exactly sure what my motivation to do so was. It didn’t seem likely I would take a Kona spot, given that I was intending to do Ironman Arizona too. Which meant that if things went according to plan, we …

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Tidbit of wisdom
Feb 3, 2015 · 1 min read ·
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Train at appropriate intensities, not arbitrary intensities.
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