Kona 2012
Oct 12, 2012I’ll post my race report shortly, but the long story short race report is such: Race week was magical and glittery. The few short efforts on the bike and run were a piece of cake. My typical pre-race 1,000 for time on Monday was crazy – 11:17 @ 1,000 SCY and 12:25 @ 1,100 SCY (basically 1,000 SCM). That all …
Read MoreBig Results
Sep 10, 2012While I’ve been pretty quiet about it, for the past year or so in addition to being a triathlete I’ve jumped into the role of triathlon coach. With some of the recent results my athletes have experienced I felt it high time to brag a little: A few weeks back Michele knocked out a 4th place in the W50-54 at Ironman NYC …
Read More2012: Phase 2
Jul 2, 2012Well with Ironman CDA (race report here) in the books, along with a week of vacation to Glacier National park – it’s time for the next phase of 2012. Phase 1 was primarily focused on improving my run significantly, which I think I’ve done. Phase 2 is about building up some monster bike fitness to have a great race in …
Read MoreIronman Coeur d’Alene 2012
Jul 2, 2012IMCDA 2012 was a first of a kind race for me, in that it was an Ironman that I didn’t need to worry about focusing on qualifying for Hawaii “ I already had a slot tied up. This gave me the unique opportunity to approach this race different both in terms of training and execution “ most importantly I would be able …
Read MoreReview: Speed Concept 9 Series
May 29, 2012In May of 2010 Trek launched the Speed Concept, it’s answer in the Superbike arms race. They claimed the bike was fast, sexy, and pretty much the coolest thing ever, they went so far as to publish a detailed white paper backing up all the claims, and their testing methodology. The white paper is a good read, it …
Read MoreRolling along now
May 24, 2012Hi again! Now that the Triple T has come and gone, I can say that the 2012 triathlon (race) season is officially underway, and thus far it has been a grand success. I managed to have a great weekend of racing at the TTT, doing it as a Solo for the first time since 2006. The next race on the docket will either be Lake …
Read MoreAmerican Triple T 2012
May 24, 20122012 marked my 7th trip to Shawnee State Park in Portsmouth, Ohio for the American Triple-T. After having done the last 5 iterations of this race as member of a team, I was back to the solo division this year. Early on in the season planning, I established 3 goals for myself this season, one of which was to finish in …
Read MoreAnother Gap
May 1, 2012Well despite posting a month ago saying that I would be posting more soon, I didn’t keep to my promise very well! However, it’s been an action packed month these last few weeks: I set a new PR for the half marathon at the beginning of April (1:19:24). I’m quite pleased by that time. Now that I’ve finally broken 1:20, …
Read MoreJ-Hawk Earlybird Triathlon 2012
May 1, 2012I’ve opened the season with J-hawk four of the last five seasons, each year using it as a rough benchmark of my fitness. After a long winter focused on my running and a recent PR at the half-marathon distance, I had high hopes for the race. However, recent life events, caused me to wake up race morning just hoping I’d …
Read MoreIt’s been a while
Mar 12, 2012It’s been an exceptionally long hiatus for me from posting on my blog. I have several topics that have been boiling in the background. One of the foremost is the post on specific prep, and then some other meanderings. I don’t have to much more to say at the moment, I’m alive, generating some content (but not finishing …
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