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From Fat…

June 2009 - Ride For Rob

..to fit…

July 2010 - Muskoka Long Course

September 2010 - Muskoka 70.3 Ironman

..to Ironman!

July 2011 - Ironman Lake Placid

Fighting the Gorilla

 

“Training for an Ironman is like fighting a gorilla, you don’t quit when you are tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired” – Greg Henderson

 

 

Truer words have never been spoken.  When in the midst of a training program you will be tired and this will affect your pace, your [...]

2011

Ironman – CHECK!

With my new training year starting a little early my 2011 season comes to an end.  It has been a great year with some more goals knocked off the bucket list.

The year started like normal with the Chilly 1/2 marathon and a PR for me albeit still a slow run at [...]

HT5U 2012

HTFU, or Harden The Fuck Up, is a common triathlon/endurance sport term that can be defined as get tough!  At some point during your training or a race you will want to stop and that is when you have to tell yourself to HTFU.  I found five examples of people HTFU and I thought I’d [...]

Ironman Defined

I posted this photo on Twitter the other day.  It shows Patricia Tillotson, a 56 year old American woman crossing the finish line at Ironman Arizona this past weekend in 16:59:59. She swam 2.4 miles in 1:38:20 then biked 112 miles in 8:06:09 and then ran 26.2 miles in 7:00:00. She was the last [...]

July 24th, 2011

2.4 Mile swim, 112 Mile bike, 26.2 Mile run.  Sounds like a good day to me!