What is a Louisville Landshark? If you are not familiar with the local multisport club, let me tell you a little about it. Once a small group of less than 20 athletes, the club now hovers around the 300 mark. The club has lots of group activities that not only involve swimming, biking and running, […]
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I was really excited to load up the truck and hit the road with my three year old son Adrian on Friday afternoon. We make the 140 mile trip from Louisville to Maysville in around three hours. We arrived a little after four o’clock and went down to pick up my race packet. We then […]
Gluten Part 3 – Why Are Some Gluten-Free Foods Bad?
If you haven’t read the first two posts in this series, please go back and read those first. They can be found at the links below. Part 1 – What Is It? Part 2 – What Happens When You Eat It So in this third and final post, I’m going to explore the ever-increasing world […]
Gluten Part 2 – What Happens When You Eat It??
In part 1 of my series of posts on Gluten, I described exactly what it is and how it’s made. The purpose of part 2 is to give you some details as to what happens to gluten and how does your body use it once you eat it. The molecular structure of modern gluten plays […]
Rev3 Knoxville Race Report
This was my third consecutive year racing the Revolution 3 Triathlon in Knoxville, Tennessee. It’s become a staple in my race calendar for several reasons. First of all, Rev3 does a fantastic job a catering to racers that bring their families with them. Second of all, a Rev3 race has a “big-race” atmosphere and they […]
TriFest Race Report
I hate looking at extended weather forecasts. I usually don’t count on them being accurate until you get within a 12 hour window. I’ll often wait until the night before to decide if I’m going to run outside or do an indoor trainer ride – depending on the chance for rain at 5am the next […]
Gluten Part 1 – What is it??
The word Gluten mean “glue” in Latin. In simple terms, it’s the glue that holds breads, cakes, pastas and other wheat products together. Gluten gives dough its elasticity and makes the final food product chewy. If you’ve ever made bread or cookies from scratch, you know how sticky the dough can be. This stickiness is […]
Sprint Triathlon Check List
This Sunday will be the fourth and final race of the Headfirst Performance Shelbyville Sprint Triathlon Series. Instead of doing a typical race preview post, I thought that it might be useful to go over all of the items that I will take to the race. I’m a list maker. I don’t necessarily make lists […]
Papa Johns 10 Miler & Shelbyville Tri #3 Race Reports
I wasn’t exactly sure how to approach the back-to-back races last weekend. I knew that in order to do as well as possible in the Triathlon, I would need to skip the 10 Miler…BUT I really enjoy running that race…SO I decided to do both. The plan was to run the 10 Miler at a […]
Weekend Double-Header – Part 2
A few weeks ago I ran a road race on Saturday and then did a triathlon on Sunday. It was so much fun that I decided to do it again this weekend! But instead of just doing a 5K, I’m going to conquer a tough 10 miler. This is the 14th year for the Papa […]