Hopes, Dreams, Aspirations, and Reality
Nov 20, 2009It’s that time of year again. No major races, taking things a bit easy, looking back on the year that is wrapping up, and looking forward to the year that is upcoming. I usually find myself looking forward to the next year as being full of possibilities in life, work, triathlon and all things in general. However, since …
Read MoreSimple is Hard
Nov 17, 2009A few rows down from where I sit in my Cubie Farm – there is a whiteboard that tends to have a thoughtful quote on it. I make a habit of walking by the whiteboard every morning to see if there is a new quote or not. Yesterday I was rewarded with this gem: The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. …
Read MoreWhimper Part II
Nov 14, 2009Received some feedback from a friend that the analysis posted yesterday was fairly one dimensional – focusing primarily on volume and ignoring intensity and other fitness related benchmarks.
Read MoreNot with a bang, but a whimper
Nov 12, 2009 Year in ReviewSo ends another season of triathlon. I wish that I could say otherwise, I wish that I could be OK with my season because I had a number of good races. The fact is I have a huge burden of disappointment right now. I had a solid race at Racine, as well as a few solid sprint races – but the rest of my season was …
Read MoreIMFL – Raceday
Nov 10, 2009We did not have an alarm clock in our room, so I set both cell phones and one of my watches to wake us up. I set them staggered 5 minutes apart to make sure any sleepiness got kicked in the butt! Around 3:15 I woke up to use the bathroom, and in glancing at the clock on the microwave I thought it was 3:45, so when I …
Read MorePrerace – Friday
Nov 10, 2009Friday was a pretty uneventful day. We went down for a swim, and I did a short run. I skipped out on the bike because I broke the valve stem extender on my front tire “ and we had to spend some time searching for a way to fix it. I ended up just falling back to the previous valve extenders I had used “ but I …
Read MorePrerace – Thursday
Nov 10, 2009Thursday morning we woke up pretty early and walked down the beach to see the swim start. After spending a few minutes down there we walked back to our room and I put on my wetsuit and we walked back down there for a swim. I did one loop of the swim course “ trying to swim easy at what I felt would be my likely pace …
Read MorePrerace – Wednesday
Nov 10, 2009Mary and I both woke up early. I had some coffee and pop tarts for breakfast. Then I went down to the beach to do a swim. I swam about 30 minutes “ nice and easy. When I was about 20 minutes in I was swimming along, and all of a sudden felt like I got stung by a bunch of insects on my face. After a split second I …
Read MorePrerace – Tuesday
Nov 10, 2009We left Milwaukee around 7 AM, and flew to Atlanta and then on a small jet to Panama City. The flight as a whole was uneventful. When we got to Panama City “ it turned out our rental car was a Mini-Van. It’s actually pretty sweet! The bike arrived without issues too. We headed to our condo, getting lost “ seems I wrote …
Read MoreBib Number 3:17
Oct 28, 2009That’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, …
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