My second Ironman is only nine days away. The taper is in full effect and my workouts are short and sweet! I’m trying to stay rested and basically not do anything to hurt myself before the race. I do lots of things all season long to try and stay healthy and well (both physically and […]

Before I get into this post, I wanted to mention that four years ago today I started this blog. I really wasn’t sure what it would turn into or if I would even keep up with it. It has evolved a lot since my first post, and instead of just telling readers about my training; […]

Check out this clip from The Waterboy: Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) was right. Water is better. Sports drinks are full of bad stuff, but I won’t get into that now. I wanted to use this post to talk about how to properly acclimate and hydrate when exercising in the heat. The human body regulates internal […]

Cycling is in my genes. My dad raced competitively for many years – both on roads and the velodrome. I even have his old aluminum-frame bike, named “Silver Shadow”. One of these days I will get around to making it road-worthy again. When I started doing triathlons five years ago (hard to believe I’ve been […]

News came via a text message at 12:13am on Friday morning that the swim was cancelled due to “dangerous current” in the Ohio River. Not the best news to be see on your phone when it wakes you up in the middle of the night. So while I was disappointed in the fact that this […]

This Saturday I will compete in the Cardinal Triathlon for the third time…yet this will be the first time I’ve done this race. Confused? So am I.  Every July, Headfirst Performance puts on a Half-Ironman in the Louisville area. For a long time, this race was know as the Cardinal Harbour Triathlon, because it started […]

With less than two months until Ironman Louisville, my workouts have really ramped up in intensity and frequency. I’m also now scattering in one or two long runs/rides once a month. If you’ve asked me how my training is going, I’ve no doubt told you that I’m going with a non-typical approach to Ironman training […]

I devote a decent amount of posts on this blog to telling readers about what NOT to eat. I’ve done posts on how to frind what’s hidden on nutrition labels, the dangers of eating saturated fats, bread, fast food, artificial sweeteners, throwing out processed food, why you shouldn’t drink diet soda, why food dyes are […]

I’m a big believer in getting vitamins and nutrients through the food you eat. This guarantees that they are in their most natural form and easiest for the human body to breakdown and use. However, I also realize that it’s not easy to eat in a way to make this happen. This is where supplements […]

The last time I had a real in-depth analysis of my swim stroke was back in December of 2011. I wrote a post back then describing some of the glaring flaws in my swim technique. I figured that it was time to have an expert take a look at my swimming and tell me how […]