First of all, I want to thank my awesome wife Jessica for taking our newborn into the living room for the night so that I could get a full, uninterrupted night’s sleep before the race. Getting a solid 7-8 hours makes a huge difference the night before a race! I woke up at 5:45am feeling […]

My 2011 triathlon season will begin Sunday morning around 8:30am. I’m participating the a Sprint distance race is Shelbyville, KY. The race will consist of a 400 yard swim in a pool, a 16 mile bike through rolling hills and then a 5K run that consists of a mixture of pavement and gravel trails. The […]

Building fitness is obviously the key to being physically able to complete a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run all in one day. But it’s impossible to do all of this without properly fueling your body during the race. Being fit is no guarantee to success on the day of Ironman, […]

…and that means that it’s finally Triathlon season! I have a race on the calendar for each of the next five months and I’m more than ready to get this 2011 season underway. From now until the end of August is going to be crazy, but I’m excited to see what the season brings. Here […]

As I was walking through the locker room at the gym the other morning the CBS Early Show was on one of the TV’s. I wasn’t really paying attention until I heard a man say “…should people just start taking aspirin as a safety precaution?”. Once I heard this statement, I decided to walk over […]

Tomorrow morning I will tackle my first long brick of my 2011 training season. I’ve done a few shorter bikes followed-up up immediately with a short run, but those were easy. Tomorrow I will do an 80-90 mile ride, a quick transition, then a 7-8 mile run. During this brick, I will attempt to simulate […]

 Official Time – 1:14:00 (7:24 min/mile pace) Overall Place – 346 out of 7013 Gender Place – 303 out of 3208 Age Group (30-34) Place – 65 out of 474 My primary goal was to set a PR – check. My secondary goal was to finish in 1:14 – check (barely!). I’m happy with the […]

  This is going to be an interesting race. Our family was blessed with the birth of our son, Adrian this past Tuesday night. Needless to say, this past week hasn’t been ideal for race prep. Not being ready for a race is a small price to pay for all the memories I’ve made in […]

As my races have progressed from Sprint Triathlons to now full Ironman distance, I’ve focused on training smarter. I knew that I didn’t have the time to put in 15-20 hours a week of training like most people gearing up for an Ironman do, so I had to figure out the smartest way to train…making […]

I’ve eaten what I consider a healthy diet for a long time now, but as part of my Ironman training this year I’ve we’ve taken it up a notch. As I described in this post, we (my wife and daughter included) have gone to a more holistic approach to eating over the last three months. […]