Instead of staying in town and enjoying various Kentucky Derby festivities, tomorrow afternoon I will pack all of my triathlon gear and our family of four into my truck and head south to Knoxville, Tennessee. The 250 mile trip will no doubt be littered with several stops considering we have a 13 month old and […]

Distance – 13.1 miles Official Time – 1:37:46 (7:28 min/mile pace) Division Place – 78th out of 761 Gender Place – 396 out of 5159 Overall Place – 483rd out of 12,091 This was a weird one for me because I found myself more worried about my wife’s race than my own. Knowing that I […]

The very first road race that I ever ran was the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon. It also happened to be the 25th running of the race. I think back about how I trained for that race 14 years ago and what I did and didn’t do. I wore a crappy pair of Reebok tennis […]

People in today’s society are always looking for a “magic bullet” or an easy way to lose weight, be healthy and live longer. Unfortunately, this does not exist. But there are several things that you can do that promote good overall health and will in turn, extend your life expectancy! Courteously of Ben Greenfield, here […]

No, this wasn’t my first triathlon…but I did two things that would have made it seem that way anyone watching me.  I woke up Sunday morning and had my customary race morning sweet potato. I was feeling pretty good considering the 12 straight hours of digging, planting and mulching I had done on Saturday. I […]

This weekend starts a crazy month of racing for me. Here’s what my race calendar looks like for the next month: April 15th – Shelbyville Sprint Triathlon 12 days April 28th – Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon 7 days May 6th – Rev3 Knoxville Triathlon (Olympic) 5 days May 12th – TriFest Triathlons (Sprint & Olympic) […]

Two topics that I love to talk about – politics and food, have a lot more in common than most people realize. I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how the two are intertwined. Author and nutrition professor Marion Nestle was interviewed in the podcast and had a lot of interesting things to […]

 Official Results:  Avg Pace Per Mile: 7:39 Division (M 30-34) Place: 76th out of 430 Gender Place: 377 out of 3121 Overall Place: 445th out of 6914 As I indicated in my race preview post, I wasn’t feeling very confident about this race. Jessica and I made it down there in plenty of time (thanks […]

Something’s a little off. I’ve had a week full of bad workouts. My times for the sprint triathlon last weekend were not bad considering my condition, but every workout I’ve done this week has been horrible. In order to try and rectify things, I only ran once and biked once this week, while hitting the […]

So in my post last week, I indicated that if UofL won their game Saturday night, I would likely party all night and give up the idea of racing on Sunday morning. Well, they won; I partied all night; and I still raced Sunday morning. It was a crazy afternoon/evening on Saturday. I got to […]