Category: bike
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Race Report: Eagleman 70.3 2023
Before I can go into how the day went, we must turn the clocks back 24 hours to Saturday morning. The day started out as ordinary until …. I went to grab shorts out of the suitcase. Yep, if you’re over 40 you can probably guess what happened next. One of the my worst back…
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Race Report: Ironman Cozumel 2021
What a difference nine years can make. Alarm went off as normal (5am), got dressed as normal, ate a little bread & peanut butter, drank some Monster, and wondered how long the rain was going to last. It was just a light sprinkling but knew it would probably last a while. When we went downstairs,…
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Race Report: HITS Naples 70.3
Well, that was different. I wouldn’t say that I was untrained for this half iron distance triathlon, being my 6th 70.3 race, but it could have better (don’t we always say that?). That being said, I did finally get under 7 hours race time. HITS Naples puts on a decent race at a good location,…
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Race Report: Huntington’s Disease Olympic Triathlon 2015
So according to Athlink.com I hadn’t done an Olympic/International distance triathlon since 2012. So when the Huntington’s Disease Triathlons sort fell into training for the GFT in October (maybe more on that in a later post) sign up was a gimme. Now much has changed since the last one – Escape to Miami. Even in…
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Race Report: Egg Hunt Sprint Triathlon 2015
First multi-sport race of the 2015 season, first race at C.B. Smith park. Day started out early and was going good until we got the park – cars were crawling to get in. Turns out the lines to get in merged into one lane, which then split into three paying lanes. Tradewinds only counts the…
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MiamiMan 2013 Race Report
Race Morning: The forecast was a mix of showers and clouds, with the rain percentages between 40-50% all day with mostly cloudy skies. The drive down to the Larry & Penny Thompson State Park held to the forecast. But by the time we got to the park, it had stopped raining and it actually held…
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My Experience at Ironman Texas 2011
Wow, what can I say about it? My first Ironman distance triathlon is in books. It was a lot more difficult than I was expecting, but I am pretty sure it was due to the fact that the hills were more numerous than advertised. We got to The Woodlands on a Wednesday and when we…
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What I Have Learned About Triathlon
With only a few weeks left before Ironman Texas, I decided to give a breakdown of the three disciplines (swim, bike, and run) and what I have learned about each of them. I am in no way an expert but I like to think that I have probably experienced enough in training for Texas and…
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A Tale of Two Tradewinds Tris
Now this is a tale of two triathlons. Both were held at Tradewinds Park. Both were sprint triathlons (although the first had a run of 2.5 miles instead of 3.1). I did them almost a year apart and did not start training for Texas until the fall of 2010. So needless to say, I was…
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Feeling Good is Good
Okay, so I haven’t been writing in this as often as I had hoped. When I was looking at the training program at the start of this, I figured that at this point the training would be long and difficult every evening. Now that we are two months away from Ironman Texas, I am a…