As part of my volunteer effort for The KIDS Center, I’ve been helping a group of runners train for the upcoming Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon. Most of the people in this group are tackling the 13.1 mile (or 26.2 for some) distance for the first time. As part of the “packet” that we provided for […]

Official Time – 44:07 (7:04 min/mile pace) Overall Place – 325 out of 7951 Gender Place – 290 out of 3520 Age Group (30-34) Place – 53 out of 503 I stayed up watching the Louisville vs. Notre Dame game until after midnight. The game had me so jacked-up that I had trouble falling asleep. […]

  I’ve only run two “stand-alone” 10K races in my life. The Rodes City Run in 2000 and 2001. These were some of the very first road races that I ran…and my times make that evident. I clocked a 55:51 in 2000 and a 52:17 in 2001. Since I started triathlons in 2009, I’ve logged […]

Last season, I followed a training program outlined by Joe Friel in his book The Triathlete’s Training Bible. It followed a basic structure of periodization training. The phases were Prep, Base, Build and Peak. Joe laid out the workouts pretty well in his book and it was easy to follow. During the Base building phase […]

Here’s some pictures from Saturday’s race. The first two are copyright of Brightroom Photography. The third picture is of some of our KIDS Center run team after the race! For the record, the older guy in these pictures is 60 years old…and fast! I only beat him by 45 seconds. He finished first in his […]

Official Time – 20:03 (6:27 min/mile pace) Overall Place – 269 out of 8720 Gender Place – 238 out of 3759 Age Group (30-34) Place – 46 out of 538 I demolished my PR by a minute and 20 seconds. I’m happy with the results – great way to start the season off! Congrats to […]

The first road race of the 2011 season is tomorrow morning. The Anthem 5K is the first leg of the Louisville Triple Crown of running. Net proceeds from this race go the WHAS Crusade for Children, which helps children with special needs. If you follow this blog, you know that I am raising money on […]

During the swim and run legs of triathlon, you are relying strictly on your body. If you’ve trained and fueled yourself (aka your machine) properly, you should be able to complete the race. The bike portion is a different story. It’s the only stage in which you rely on something other than your body’s ability […]

I’m an Engineer, so by nature, I’m a stats-geek (actually I’m just a geek in general). I recently came across a website that does an awesome comparison of all Ironman traithlon races. They also compare half and full marathon’s if you are interested in those results. The website is RunTri.com. RunTri analyzed 25 Ironman distance […]

I listen to podcasts a lot when I’m riding the indoor trainer. Riding indoors is VERY boring and listening to podcasts helps pass the time. I have a couple that I subscribe to, but one of my favorites is done by Ben Greenfield. Yesterday I listed to one with that discussed using your body’s temperature […]