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 …
Read More- 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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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 …
Read More- Train at appropriate intensities, not arbitrary intensities.
Read More 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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More - 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 …
Read More 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, …
Read MoreThis 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 …
Read MoreAgain, 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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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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