Ironman bought Timberman in 2013, killed it, and brought it back to life this year. A race just over an hour from where I live? Sign me up! It was two weeks after Boulder 70.3, but I nailed my Boulder recovery (Thank
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I’m posting this with few notes and even fewer photos, but I feel like there are still some good nuggets in here, and I like reading back on my older posts to understand where I disengaged mentally and physically and take those
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When I did my first pro race in April 2018 (Oceanside 70.3!), I went into it with my eyes wide open. I remember being in a room with Jan Frodeno thinking I had made it to the top level of 70.3 triathlon.
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How exactly does one go from a metropolis of 1.6 million to a town of 14,000? Well, necessity is the mother of…prevention? Let’s rewind back to March. With more and more COVID cases confirmed in NYC, it felt like the walls were
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The sun blinded me with every gasping stroke. Pull, breathe…SUN! Pull, brea…SUN! I focused on exhaling in the water – not something I usually think about – in order to dedicate each head turn to getting as much oxygen as possible. We
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It’s fitting that it’s Canada Day as I start this post. Well, that’s as far as I got when I started that post. It’s even four days past U.S. Day, a.k.a. July 4th, that I pick up on this again. (It’s July
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It’s already been over three weeks since my race at the Chattanooga 70.3. I thought I’d have a comprehensive analysis of my race by this point, but since I waited weeks to write it all down, I can’t exactly remember the play-by-play.
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Although she asked about the lows as well as the highs of professional racing, that wasn’t even the toughest question during my chat with Ally from Asphalt Green last week. Thankfully, she left out the pauses and the “umms” and summarized what I blabbered on
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When I got off the bike almost 14 minutes down from the leader at Toughman Championships in my last race of the season, it was impossible to ignore the simple of math of what it’d take to win: over 1 minute per
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Imagine you’re running in a desert and you’re not carrying any food nor water. You’re dehydrated and there is zero cell reception, not that you have your cell phone on you anyway – in fact, all of your personal belongings are 5
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