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Having originally planned to race the Ironman in Lake Tahoe on this same weekend, my season plan did not include this race (although I did flirt with the idea of trying to do both – deemed insane by my wife). The year started off well with an early victory in a spring XTERRA and then […]
Continue Reading →Racing in Kona – the big island, brings many different emotions to triathletes and many other endurance athletes. It’s a place of legend for some and often-legendary conditions that have put many people to the test of their life. Images from the early races there, with people shown collapsing as they approached the finished impacted […]
Continue Reading →Having come into this race with very little training (mainly swimming) since IM CdA, I had low expectations and a heavy concern about the state of my achilles. I knew that I did not have podium level fitness and had to find a plan that would allow me to race hard and yet not put […]
Continue Reading →I was up by 4am and awoke after a fairly sound 5-6 hour night of sleep. I felt good, had a bit of tightness but it dissipated very quickly. I had a normal breakfast (Greek nonfat yoghurt with honey, nuts and granola, along with OJ) with a VIA coffee and we all departed for the […]
Continue Reading →This has been an interesting and very surprising recent few weeks. I have raced three times over four weeks to kick off my 2013 race season (proudly wearing my Team BSR colors!) and there were many question marks going into this season (primarily around my Achilles).
First up was the XTERRA Camp Eagle where I […]
Continue Reading →We arrived on Maui on a week before the race (Monday) and my goal for the week was to pre-ride the course twice, run the course once and swim most every day for 30-45min while getting used to using the new Garmin 910xt. Our trip was uneventful and the bike arrived with no issues as […]
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This is the Ironman Hawaii bike course. A course known for heat and winds that generally are a crosswind. In just a few months I will be racing on this course and am now doing some planning so that I can comfortably go sub 5 hours on it.
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A long, but fun exploration of what it takes to qualify for the Ironman World Championships
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