August 14th, 2023 — Somewhat implulsively, I registered for Ironman 70.3 Couer d'Alene.
August 15th, 2023 — A couple of pro triathletes with some words of wisdom for me.
August 17th, 2023 — In my workout today I caught myself saying something to push me through an exercise.
August 28th, 2023 — 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.
September 27th, 2023 — 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...
October 6th, 2023 — Mission Bay is just around the corner and the excitement I'm feeling is starting to build.
November 17th, 2023 — Let's take a look back at this year of racing and then my goals for 2024.
December 13th, 2023 — 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...
January 5th, 2024 — It's not the way I wanted to end and start this year but sickness happens and I've just gotta roll with it.
March 11th, 2024 — 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...
March 29th, 2024 — I'm at the halfway point of training and overall feeling strong...as long as sickness doesn't creep in.
April 10th, 2024 — 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...
April 15th, 2024 — 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...
June 17th, 2024 — 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...
July 8th, 2024 — 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...
September 2nd, 2024 — Two strong first two weeks in the books.
November 10th, 2024 — 28 days until race day.
January 9th, 2025 — It's the new year and it's time to plan some goals for the year.