If you read my blog you know what happened last year. This year had to be better, there is no way it could be worse. After waiting a year, laying down a solid 20 weeks of training it was time for redemption at Rev3 Knoxville HalfRev and I got it. No kicks, crashes, craps or [...]
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June 2009 - Ride For Rob 
July 2010 - Muskoka Long Course 
September 2010 - Muskoka 70.3 Ironman 
July 2011 - Ironman Lake Placid |
A few weeks ago I posted a short review on TriSwim Shampoo and Conditioner that Adena gave me. Through the comments section Andrew from SwimSpray contacted me and offered a sample of their product, SwimSpray, to test out. Being a sucker for anything free as well as not loving the Eau d’ Chlorine I was [...] What a week! I was a bit worried leading into this past week. I’ve been happy with my swim although I took a little bit of a hit when I realized the pool I was swimming in is 25 yards, not 25 meters. My run training was validated with the 1:40 Chilly Half Marathon last [...] If you spend a lot of time in a pool you know the effect it can have on your hair. My barber always tries to sell me on some expensive shampoo to clean out the Chlorine. My friend Adena gave me some samples of TriSwim shampoo, conditioner, body wash and lotion. I normally get really [...] 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 [...] This weeks long swim got moved from Saturday to Tuesday as I am racing on the weekend and it didn’t fit my schedule. The downside of this was having to do it in the pool. 6000M, 25M at a time. The official workout was as follows: 600M Warm Up 8x50M Hard 5x800M Ironman Pace 6x150M [...] I got into a Larry the Cable Guy session on Sunday night. I was wasting time online and started watching videos on YouTube. One hour and about 1000 “Git R Done”s later I was laughed out. I am now on the verge of replacing HTFU with Git R Done as the 2011 motto. I have [...] The motto for Ironman Lake Placid this year is HTFU. Today I had to take that to a whole ‘nother level. Let’s recap…. Kicked in the head on the swim – black eye, could have quit. Flew into the forest at 30MPH – shoulders scraped and bloodied, knees scrapped and bloodied, various scrapes and [...] Sunny and calm, that lasted about 5 minutes on today’s long run. By the time the 2hr 15min run was over I had run through winds up to 50KM/hr, rain, sleet, ice pellets, snow and cycled through all those conditions at least twice. When I got home I wasn’t sure if it was Spring, Summer, [...] Every gym has one, as does every pool, in fact anywhere that you work out in public you are likely to encounter them. Douchebags, heros, call them what you want but it seems their only reason to go workout is to try and make themselves look good but running faster, swimming harder, lifting more than [...] |
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