If you missed Part 1 of my race report, you can read it here.  So I left off with me jumping into the river. The 2.4 mile swim course for IMLOU consists of going upstream approximately 0.8 miles, then turning around and going approximately 1.6 miles downstream to the finish. When I jumped in the […]

Instead of having a blog post that would take you an hour to read, I’m going to break my Ironman Louisville Race Report into several smaller posts. The first one will cover everything I did from the time I woke up until we jumped in the water. Before I actually get to the morning of […]

While I never really stopped training after my 2012 season was over, my “official” Ironman Louisville 2013 training started 36 weeks ago. I started with a basic outline of the plan I followed in 2011, which was called Triathlon Dominator, and then I modified it considerably to fit my goals and plan for this year. […]

I had planned on reviewing the Professional Field for 2013 Ironman Louisville today, but since there is no list of said athlete’s anywhere to be found, I decided to go in a different direction. This Saturday (the day before Ironman), there will be around 50-100 people running on the riverfront in just their underwear. If […]

It’s officially Ironman week in Louisville! Most people living in the city won’t know this until Saturday or Sunday, but in my circle of triathlon friends, it’s all anyone is talking about. I thought that I would use this post to take a look back at the history of this event. But before Ironman came […]

My second Ironman is only nine days away. The taper is in full effect and my workouts are short and sweet! I’m trying to stay rested and basically not do anything to hurt myself before the race. I do lots of things all season long to try and stay healthy and well (both physically and […]

Before I get into this post, I wanted to mention that four years ago today I started this blog. I really wasn’t sure what it would turn into or if I would even keep up with it. It has evolved a lot since my first post, and instead of just telling readers about my training; […]

Check out this clip from The Waterboy: Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) was right. Water is better. Sports drinks are full of bad stuff, but I won’t get into that now. I wanted to use this post to talk about how to properly acclimate and hydrate when exercising in the heat. The human body regulates internal […]

Cycling is in my genes. My dad raced competitively for many years – both on roads and the velodrome. I even have his old aluminum-frame bike, named “Silver Shadow”. One of these days I will get around to making it road-worthy again. When I started doing triathlons five years ago (hard to believe I’ve been […]

News came via a text message at 12:13am on Friday morning that the swim was cancelled due to “dangerous current” in the Ohio River. Not the best news to be see on your phone when it wakes you up in the middle of the night. So while I was disappointed in the fact that this […]