While I enjoyed my Transition Phase last week, I’m paying the price for it now. Believe it or not, by limiting myself to three short workouts and not eating as healthy as I normally do, I gained 6 pounds last week! Must have been the lunch buffet at Mr. Gatti’s I had on Wednesday…or maybe […]

If you follow my blog, you know that over the last seven or so months, I’ve worked through several phases of training leading up to my race last weekend. It started off with the Prep Phase, then several levels of Base Phase, followed by several levels of Build Phase, then Peak Phase and finally Race […]

Six hours…that was the goal. Finish the race in under six hours. I had done the math in my head. 50 minutes or less in the water, 3 hours or less on the bike, 2 hours on the run…with 10 minutes to be used in transition or on the bike if I had a flat […]

Swim (1.2 miles): 46:50.50 (39:02 min/mile pace) – 8th in age group T1: 2:49.60 – 8th in age group Bike (56 miles): 2:56:08.9 (19.1 mph) – 9th in age group T2: 1:15.9 – 5th in age group Run (13.1 miles): 2:10:33.9 (9:58 min/mile pace) – 8th in age group Total: 5:57:38.8 – 9th in age […]

My first “A” Priority race of the year is tomorrow. I’m really excited right now, nerves will probably set in once my head hits the pillow tonight. Before any big race, I like to look back and see exactly what my training volume has been for this race. Here’s a look back at what I’ve […]

I’m starting to get excited about Saturday’s race. With all almost all of my training done, it’s time to focus on some other aspects of triathlon racing…such as getting all of the required gear together. I’ve made a list of everything (hopefully) that I will need to pack in the car and take with me […]

So the half-ironman triathlon that I will do this Saturday will take approximately 6 hours to complete. This is 6 hours of non-stop, high intensity exercise. Many, many calories will be burned during the swim, bike and run. I estimate that I will burn approximately 500 calories swimming, 1900 calories cycling, and 2000 calories running….for […]

It’s race week! I’m excited and can’t wait for Saturday morning to get here! In the last several weeks before an event it is too late to significantly increase fitness, but it is not too late to increase fatigue. So based on this fact, I will be doing some short, high intensity workouts this week […]

Started off the morning by heading out to see my wife Jessica run her first road race. It was a 5K through the zoo. She did an awesome job and has now apparently caught the “bug”. She’s already looking for another race to run. I couldn’t be more proud of her. She’s the definition of […]

No, I didn’t run a 4 minute mile, but Roger Bannister did on this day in 1954. For many years, the scientific and athletic communities thought that it was impossible to run a four-minute mile. It was first achieved 56 years ago by Roger in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. The ‘four minute barrier’ has since […]