It’s officially Ironman week in the city of Louisville. To the average citizen, nothing will seem different until Sunday when roads are shut down for the race and the local media devotes a little airtime and print to cover the race. But to us triathletes, it feels like the Superbowl is in town. There’s a […]

I didn’t get to watch as much of the Olympics as I wanted to. I watched several events live online during the day and then caught several others on NBC during prime time. I was a little annoyed that NBC chose to wait until the 11:00-12:00 hour each night to show the events that everyone […]

The swim portion of this race was in the pool at Tom Sawyer State Park, so it was a time trial start – one at a time in the water – every 20 seconds. As I was setting up transition I started to look around at other people’s race numbers (my race number was 352), […]

Swim (800m) 14:44.16 (1:51/100m pace) – 2nd out of 10 in my age group (10th out of 126 overall) T1 1:18:14 -1/10 (1/126) Bike (14 miles) 38:57.70 (21.6 mph) – 1/10 (2/126) T2 0:36.40 – 1/10 (3/126) Run (5K) 21:16.52 (6:51 min/mile) – 1/10 (2/126) Total 1:16:52.9 (1/10) (2/126) I cut almost 4 minutes off […]

August 2, 2008 is when my adventure in this sport called Triathlon began. At the suggestion of my buddy Kelly, who was also racing, I signed up for a Sprint Triathlon. On just 7 weeks of training I struggled through my first Tri, the Tom Sawyer Triathlon. It was brutal. I had to swim side-stroke […]

The fact that the Summer Olympics only come around every four years makes them even more special. If they were held on an annual basis, it was take some of the luster away. I have always loved the Olympics and have some very fond memories dating all the way back to the 1984 games. That […]

This disaster of a race started with a text at 11:22pm the night before. It was from the race director and it woke me up…then I couldn’t get back to sleep. Things only got worse from there… But instead of making this a post about all of the things that went wrong yesterday, I will […]

This Sunday is the Buckhead Border Challenge Triathlon. It’s an Olympic Distance race that takes participants across the border from Kentucky to Indiana. This is the second year for the race, but at this time last year, I was training for Ironman…so I skipped this race in favor of a longer half-IM one. This season […]

This my 400th post…and I have chosen to devote it to my gut. More specifically, the results of a recent complete Gastrointestinal panel test that I had done. I was tested for parasites, allergens for cow’s milk, soy, egg and gluten, intestinal function and overall gut heath through multiple stool and saliva samples. Yes, you […]

Last week was not supposed to be a “recovery” week. However, based on how sore my quads were in the days after the Southern Indiana Triathlon, I decided to listen to my body and take a week to recover.  So what exactly does a week of recovery mean for me? It contains three key ingredients: […]