Distance – 13.1 milesOfficial Time – 1:37:27 (7:26 min/mile pace) Overall Place – 408 out of 11,394 Gender Place – 346 out of 4,958 Age Group (30-34) Place – 61 out of 678 Race morning started with my typical sweet potato around two and a half hours before the start of the race, which in […]

  The first race that I ever competed in was the Kentucky Derby Festival mini Marathon back in 1998. I’ve done this race a total of five times now, which is more than any other. I think of this race as my arch-nemesis, my Kryptonite. Out of the five times I’ve run it, I’ve only […]

I’ve always kept very good records of all of my workouts. I’ve used a couple of different websites over the years to keep track of things. As part of the Triathlon Dominator package that I ordered, I could get all of my planned workouts automatically uploaded to a website called Training Peaks. So naturally, I […]

Ask anyone that owns a boat and they will tell you that it must have a name. People get very creative when naming their vessels. Next time you are out on a lake, river or the ocean, make a point to look at the back of boats and check out the names…funny stuff! While not […]

The rankings for last season have been released by USAT. The rankings are calculated as a comparison between an athlete’s race time and the projected time of the best age grouper (aka Amateur) in the rankings. It’s basically like calculating a golf score. The best athlete’s time is “par” and your score is calculated based […]

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 […]