I hate looking at extended weather forecasts. I usually don’t count on them being accurate until you get within a 12 hour window. I’ll often wait until the night before to decide if I’m going to run outside or do an indoor trainer ride – depending on the chance for rain at 5am the next […]
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Gluten Part 1 – What is it??
The word Gluten mean “glue” in Latin. In simple terms, it’s the glue that holds breads, cakes, pastas and other wheat products together. Gluten gives dough its elasticity and makes the final food product chewy. If you’ve ever made bread or cookies from scratch, you know how sticky the dough can be. This stickiness is […]
KDF miniMarathon Race Report
As I stated in my race preview post, my goal was a 1:36 half-marathon. When I turned the corner from Main Street onto Brook Street, I was hoping that the finish line had been moved up…because that was my only shot at getting under 1:37. When I saw a few hundred yards between me and […]
Shelbyville Tri #4 Race Report / miniMarathon Preview
I’ll keep this race report fairly simple. I felt good coming into the race, but my times were not what I was hoping for. I didn’t do this race last year, but I did in 2012. My times for the swim, bike and run were all a few seconds slower this time around. I know […]
Sprint Triathlon Check List
This Sunday will be the fourth and final race of the Headfirst Performance Shelbyville Sprint Triathlon Series. Instead of doing a typical race preview post, I thought that it might be useful to go over all of the items that I will take to the race. I’m a list maker. I don’t necessarily make lists […]
Why I Love Small Races
The sport of Triathlon continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Most estimates put the growth over the last 15 years at 500%! I’ve only been involved with the sport for five years and I’ve witnessed a boom, especially locally. Our Multisport Club, the Louisville Landsharks has grown from about two dozen members in 2009 […]
Papa Johns 10 Miler & Shelbyville Tri #3 Race Reports
I wasn’t exactly sure how to approach the back-to-back races last weekend. I knew that in order to do as well as possible in the Triathlon, I would need to skip the 10 Miler…BUT I really enjoy running that race…SO I decided to do both. The plan was to run the 10 Miler at a […]
Weekend Double-Header – Part 2
A few weeks ago I ran a road race on Saturday and then did a triathlon on Sunday. It was so much fun that I decided to do it again this weekend! But instead of just doing a 5K, I’m going to conquer a tough 10 miler. This is the 14th year for the Papa […]
Genetic Testing
A few months ago I filled up a tube full of saliva and mailed it off the 23andMe. Once they received my specimen, they did a full DNA analysis and provided me with ancestry-related genetic reports as well as tons of raw genetic data. This is a really cool test and the amount of information […]
Shelbyville Triathlon #2 Race Report
I’ve done this race a few times in the past. Part of the fun when getting gear together for a race in late February is deciding what to wear. The temperature usually hovers right around freezing this time and year and Sunday was no exception. It was in the high 20’s when the race started […]