• Committing

    calendar 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

    calendar 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

    calendar Feb 3, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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    Train at appropriate intensities, not arbitrary intensities.
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  • Data Loss

    calendar Jan 30, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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    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 …


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  • Fifteen

    calendar Oct 10, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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    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 …
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  • The Secret

    calendar Jul 25, 2014 · 5 min read  ·
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    For a really long time I’ve wanted to try and capture a lot of my thoughts, feelings, and understandings about training down, but have hesitated too.  Mostly because it seems like a daunting task, and I just don’t have the courage to undertake it.  Part of it too is because my opinion can be so dynamic based on what I …
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  • Listening

    calendar Jun 20, 2014 · 5 min read  ·
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    Before I go to far into the depths of my brain, first a long over-due update of the state of Scott.

    I’ve knocked out a few races this season and had some inconsistent results.  I had intended to race 70.3 Worlds in Mont Treblanc via qualification at Kansas 70.3, but that didn’t work out.  I didn’t get a slot outright, …


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  • Homecoming

    calendar Oct 8, 2013 · 2 min read  ·
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    This past weekend it was Homecoming at UW-Stevens point, combined with it being an odd year – it meant that Mary, Ethan and I headed up for the biennial UWSP swimming alumni extravaganza.  This meant the plan for the weekend was a laid back swim meet, hanging out with friends, drinking, and a breakfast at the Wooden …


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  • Catching Up

    calendar Sep 13, 2013 · 4 min read  ·
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    Again, it’s been a while since my last post.  Life has been keeping me busy, and for various reasons I haven’t been making the time to write – despite my desire at the end of the year to do it regularly.

    This season contained a few breakthroughs.  On paper, looking at the results it’s not fully evident when you …


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  • Off on the wrong foot

    calendar May 11, 2013 · 3 min read  ·
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    Well geez, I’m embarrassed to say that we are approaching the midpoint of the year, and I’m doing a pretty lousy job on some of my earlier stated goals for this year.  The specifics of why I haven’t lived up to my goals are relatively unimportant, what’s important is that I failed to make daily …


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