A little over a month ago I had a friend take a video of me swimming. I then took this video and compared my swimming form against some of the best swimmers out there. I noticed a few things in my technique that I’m going to work on correcting. Take a look: So the still […]

My legs were feeling a little heavy on Sunday after the race Saturday morning. I thought the day off would be enough for them to fully recover. They were still tired on Monday, but I put in over 2 hours on the bike anyway. Then did running intervals yesterday…I paid the price for all this […]

Today marks the start of the Build Phase of my training. Typically, this stage consists of three, three week periods. But, due to my knee injury back in January, I had to make some adjustments and cut this stage down to a single, four week period. Details on the change can be found here. I’ve […]

Dropped off Jessica and Kate at my parent’s house around 7:00am and headed over to the starting line at Central Ave. and 3rd Street. Not many people there, so I had time to jog a little and get loose. I made the same mistake as last year and drank way too much water last night […]

Official Time = 1:17:35 (7:45 min/mile) 488th out of 6925 overall 421st Male out of 3212 68th in Age Group (30-34) out of 482 1st half in 38:34, 2nd half in 39:01 Good race, full report later.

So as with any race that I’ve done before, the goal is to beat my PR (Personal Record). I’ve run this race two previous times: 2001 – Time was 1:23:33 (8:21 min/mile) 2009 – Time was 1:23:23 (8:20 min/mile) I was 10 seconds faster last year than in 2001. I didn’t realize the times were […]

It’s been a busy week, but I’ve been able to get in some good training sessions. Here’s a recap of my week: Monday’s Workout:1h25m on the bike. This was a pretty easy ride just to get me legs back after Sunday’s race. I kept the HR is Zone 2 and did about 30 minutes of […]

My race day started at 12:00am Sunday morning as I was leaving the airport parking garage. After spending less than 24 hours in Miami, I wasn’t able to get an earlier flight home…so needless to say, this wasn’t the best way to rest up for a race. By the time I got home and settled […]

I’ll give a full race report tomorrow, but here’s my official results from yesterday’s race: Swim – 7:16.6 (31:36 min/mile pace)T1 – 2:00.3Bike – 36:49.8 (19.6 mph)T2 – 1:04.4Run – 23:38.0 (7:37 min/mile pace)TOTAL – 1:10:49.1 Goal was to beat last year’s overall time, which was 1:13:41…so mission accomplished. Here’s my comparison vs. last year’s […]

Sunday morning’s race in Shelbyville will be my first Triathlon of the 2010 season. It’s a short race and I’ve labeled it as a Priority C race…meaning that it’s not the race that my training is focused on. However, I’m really excited about the race and I’ll give 100% from start to finish! The races […]