All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
I did awful job keeping this site up to date this year. There’s a lot to update on. I was laid off at the end of may. The truth is that I wasn’t very disappointed. The job was stale and the company was/is flailing. My team was great and my direct manager was awesome. The other l...
tldr; I got laid off, focused on family and training. Earned a slot to 70.3 World Championships in Spain at Rockford where we melted in the heat. Now, the focus is getting ready for Spain.
Here's the quick recap of the race. Going into the race I was hopeful but not expecting a ton. A week prior I was battling covid and on race day I was still recovering. The week of the race I wasn't doing a ton just trying to get my legs under me again. Overall, I'm extremely p...
With just over 15 weeks to go, I am not at all in the shape I was in when I race 70.3 Couer d'Alene. I mean, of course I'm not in shape. I took time off and then injured myself. Facing the reality of where I am is not easy. I was in such a good place with my fitness and was eager...
I know I posted recently how excited I was to get back to work and race in December. While that hasn't changed, I'm gonna be sidelined for a few weeks.
My first Ironman branded middle distance race was an all around success. I ran it in 5 hours 32 minutes and that's right around where I wanted to be. One thing to note, however, was that the swim was extremely shortened due to weather conditions. More on that later. My first rac...
6 months of training and somehow it feels like it's both flown by Up until about two weeks ago I have been lucky to have to had an injury free year. When I would do my longer runs I would feel some tightness and discomfort in my right calf/shin area. Every time it propped up I w...
13 years ago I bought a low-end TT bike. It was a That Felt bike served me well over the years. Though there was a solid 8 years there where I didn't even ride it at all. Having Rheumatoid Arthritis (and not knowing it) made handling a bike painful on my wrists and then starting...
I've been out of the sport of triathlon for nearly a decade. When I was in the sport I followed a couple of names but it was not possible to be as connected to athletes as it now. Social media and the ability to create an audience has changed how vested I am in watching such a bo...
I'm at the halfway point of training and overall feeling strong...as long as sickness doesn't creep in.
In my The second training block was solid. It was hard but it was good. It really stepped up volume in every area. The first week of the block was really tough coming off an illness but in general it felt really good to push myself again. It's always nice when a recovery week co...
It's not the way I wanted to end and start this year but sickness happens and I've just gotta roll with it.
I have been working my ass off training to start training. I've been using my Training Stress Score as an indicator and I have been slowly pushing that up. I looked up what a good TSS number should be at the time of a 70.3 and should be between 70 and 140 ( I'm feeling really goo...
I’m writing this from my phone so forgive any typos. I’m not proofreading or anything. When I signed up for this race o just wanted to have some carrot on a stick in front me to keep training after Mission Bay. To be honest, I thought the race was in December when I signed up. S...
Mission Bay is just around the corner and the excitement I'm feeling is starting to build.
I've been struggling to keep this blog updated lately. A few weeks ago I had brief moments here and there to write and gather my training logs but work and family life began to creep in. But that's ok. This blog isn't my priority. It's just a nice place to express some small thou...
Small incremental gains and a lot of patience. If I've learned anything so far from this experience it's that I need to stack a lot of workouts together to get to the big picture goal.
This week is active recovery and I'm feeling like I'm in a really good place physically.
In my workout today I caught myself saying something to push me through an exercise.
This week, I need to try and stay within myself and not injure my body doing too much.
There are so many terms in endurance sports and I often ignore them and focus on working hard. I’m trying to change that and give myself a better understanding of what the various data are and what they represent.