Ramblings of an amatuer endurance athlete...
2012 Was a great year filled with fun and anguish as well as my first duathlon and a return to some of my favorite races! Here are the totals… 13,128 – Number of Unique Page Views, up 50% from 2011 726 – Number of Unique Page Views on the years most popular post 9 – [...]
Now I am the first person to say that there is no such thing as a metric century but I’m also going to say that rule only applies to cycling ;) The simple reason is I completed a (metric) double century for swimming in 2012 hitting the 200,040M mark today. I knew going into todays [...]
Pacing! Somedays I get it, somedays it “slips my mind” and I pay the price. What should be a solid run ends up being a sufferfest. Today it happened again. I’ll learn. One day. I paced the Milton Sprint well but today I got caught up in the excitement of a flat and fast bike [...]
Apparently I have had a pacing problem. It was never an issue on the swim because I get into a comfort zone and stay there and never really push it hard, luckily I am a decent swimmer. The bike I always felt was my strong suit so I would have good rides. The run has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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