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 […]

The third race in a four race Sprint Triathlon series takes place this Sunday in Shelbyville, KY. I’ve raced the first two and planned on doing all four…however, a few weeks ago I noticed a wedding on my calendar for Saturday night. Not just any wedding, the nuptials of a good friend of mine, Matt. […]

Official Results: Avg Pace Per Mile: 6:29 Division (M 30-34) Place: 37th out of 465 Gender Place: 171st out of 3678 Overall Place: 192nd out of 8495  This is the first race that both Jessica and I have run. So we had to get the kids to her Mom’s house and get down to the […]

Tomorrow is my first road race of the year. It’s going to be weird for me to just run 5K and then not have to bike and swim…but that means I can leave it all out on the pavement! This will be my 4th year in a row running the Anthem 5K Fitness Classic. Here […]

The errors on T2 and swim times have been corrected (some people were in the wrong age group also). It didn’t change my final placing in my Age Group or Overall, but my transition and swim times moved up in the ranks. Revised Results: 5K Run: 20:51.4  4th out of 7 in Age Group, 12th […]

Forecast all week long called for rain overnight Saturday turning into snow Sunday morning. I never trust forecasts! I woke up Sunday morning and immediately got on the computer to check the radar. Since I do all almost all of my running outside year-round, I like to think that I’m pretty good at reading a […]