At the end of each year, I like to look back over my training logs and see how many miles and hours I spent swimming, biking and running. So here are the numbers for 2012: Swim – 133.78 miles (83 hours and 32 minutes) 2:08/100yd avg. Bike – 1614.7 miles (81 hours and 53 minutes) […]

Every year the USAT, the official governing body of triathlons in the U.S., issues a ranking. It’s kind of a weird ranking system, but still better than the BCS! Each race that you do has several “pace setters”. These pace setters give USAT a “par time” for that particular race. Therefore, every race has a […]

It’s been two years since my wife Jessica and I decided to go from eating “healthy” to really eating as clean as possible. We emptied out nearly everything in our cupboard, throwing out or giving away all of our processed foods and basically anything that comes in a package. The first few weeks were tough. […]

Distance – 8.83 miles Overall Place – 8th out of 136 Division Place (M 30-34) – 2nd out of 10 Gender Place – 8th out of 78 Total Time – 1:17:02.64 (8:44/mile) It’s kind of strange to wake up on race morning without having to worry about a full list of things that I need […]

Tomorrow morning I’ll head down to Otter Creek Park for my first ever trail race. I’ve run on trails exactly seven times…and all of those have been in the past two months. It’s only taken that long for me to fall head-over-heels (not literally) for trail running. It’s been a great addition to my off-season […]

When you hear someone talk about taking a cold shower, it’s usually related to cooling down a fire in your loins (if you know what I mean). Thankfully, this is not the reason I take cold showers. For the last six months or so I have taken cold showers. I can only think of one […]

Distance                 5.0 Miles Overall Place           80 / 924 Division Place         14 / 55 Gender Place           69 / 485 Total Time           34:47 (6:57/mile)   I felt better than expected during this race considering my lackluster training this time of year. I guess the climbing I’ve been getting in on the trails has helped my […]

I love Iroquois Park. I grew up a block away from it and when I first started running, I did the majority of my runs in the park. The constant hills were good training grounds for me. I know the road that loops around the bottom of the park better than any 3 mile stretch […]

I never knew what I was missing! After the triathlon season is over, several of my tri-buds like to run trails. I thought about doing it last winter, but never got around to it. This year I knew that I wanted to give it a try, so I went out and bought a pair of […]

Yesterday was election day here in the United States. Everyone was focused (rightly so) on the race for the White House, but there was a bill on the ballot in California that had my attention. Proposition 37 would have required that most foods containing genetically modified ingredients carry a “Made with GMO” label on the […]