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. […]

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 […]