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 …

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 …

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 try …

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 …

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 …

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 would …

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 would …

Train at appropriate intensities, not arbitrary intensities.

Well because I’m an idiot I had to roll my blog back to a rather old copy, which didn’t include a lot of the added content like pictures, or miscellenous files I have posted over the years. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of those pictures did not get captured by archive.org, so they are more or less gone. I’m …

Tomorrow I’ll be embarking on my fifteenth Ironman triathlon. On the surface there is nothing overly special to me about the number 15. It’s not considered lucky, it’s not a prime number, it’s just a nice round number, half way between 10 and 20. What is more significant about tomorrow, is that I have directed a lot of …