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Downtime 13 Dec 2012 | 03:23 am
The 2012 season is behind me. It has been a little over three weeks since I raced Ironman Arizona, and I now find myself in this somewhat strange place of feeling like that was an eternity ago, yet at...
Ironman AZ Race Report 22 Nov 2012 | 12:13 am
Ironman Arizona, as I said in my previous post, is a race that I just like. After this weekend, I like it even a bit more. Arizona feels like a bit of a second home to me. I had the great fortune las...
Thats a wrap... (almost) 14 Nov 2012 | 05:02 am
2012 has been a season of change. Change from an injured athlete possibly out of the sport, to an athlete coming back. Change from a group training environment, to solo hours for the largest part. ...
Austin 70.3 Race Report 1 Nov 2012 | 03:14 am
I raced Austin 70.3 in 2010 and had pretty good memories of the race. It was warm, the course was fun, and I had to dodge a HUGE bull that had gotten loose on the race course. This year things were m...
Augusta 70.3 Race Report 4 Oct 2012 | 11:57 pm
The last time I raced a half ironman this close to an full ironman was in 2009, when a month after my first Ironman at Couer 'd Alene, I raced Vineman 70.3. I felt alright at Vineman, but remember tha...
Rev3 Cedar Pt. Race Report 14 Sep 2012 | 11:53 pm
This is the race report I have been wanting to write for a year and a half now. As any of you that have followed my racing or this blog for that time period will have noted, I have not been happy with...
The long route 18 Aug 2012 | 01:54 am
I have clearly taken the long route as to blog updates recently. Frankly, not much has been going on since Ironman Couer d'Alene until the last couple weeks. With that lame excuse for my literary lazi...
Ironman Couer d'Alene Race Report 4 Jul 2012 | 08:45 am
Another notch in the belt. That is sort of the way I am looking at my race in Couer d'Alene. I say "sort of" in that a finish, concluding a day of constant "effort," was something I wasn't exactly co...
FREE SHADES!! 22 Jun 2012 | 11:02 pm
I m extremely fortunate to have some of the best sponsors in the business. Their support of my racing has never wavered. One of those incredible companies is SPY+ Optics. And now they want to share a ...
CdA Round 2 22 Jun 2012 | 12:43 pm
I am all settled here in Couer d'Alene with internet finally up and running. Sunday will mark my second "go round" at IM CdA after cutting my iron distance teeth here in 2009 as an amateur. I had ver...