it’s not the race, it’s the journey One moment I was dreamingly swimming in my first full Ironman in Copenhagen, Denmark and 12 hours later I was was sitting in bed registering for Ironman Maryland… there is…
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If you’ve ever trained for anything long course (marathon, ultra, 70.3, Ironman, etc.) you know how exhausting gels, blocks and bars can get–the stickiness, the sweetness, the awful tastingness. I’ve definitely consumed my fair share…
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After committing to an Ironman race for 2016 I had a lot of friends ask me if I had a training plan–to which my response most likely resembled a drunken rambling of non-sequiturs. (Think…
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In August of 2013 I decided that my goal for the proceeding year would be to complete a triathlon; specifically, I wanted to race the Boston Triathlon–a sprint distance tri (.5 mile swim, 9 mile…
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If I had to sum up my year in two words: 17 races. In all, I ran two marathons, three half marathons, a 10k, a five miler, a handful of 5k’s, a trail race…
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Exactly around this time last year I decided I wanted to attempt a triathlon. I wish I knew what planted this seed because, to be honest, at the time I didn’t know anyone in my social…