We’re now just 3 weeks out from Timberman, which means one more heavy week of training and we slowly start to taper our training up until the race. Our first taper week isn’t really much of a taper, but the second week our hardest workout is a 1800 yard swim, so you know that’s an [...]

If you ask my friends about me, they’ll say “nice guy, but a pain in the butt sometimes”. Aside from my often incredibly good luck, I also have the knack for not making things easy on people. It’s not always a bad thing, but it often is. I’m sure even my wife will tell you [...]

Back a few hundred years ago, power came from having a sword and a bow, or even having an army of people with swords and bows. Nowadays, when bows and swords will only get you laughed at as a nerd, power comes from information. The more information you have, the more powerful you are in [...]

So, for a long time I thought it was preparation that made all the difference in racing. I’m coming to realize while preparation is indeed very important, perception is even more important. I’ll give you an example. On January 1st of this year, I participated in the Lowell 1st Run. To say I felt it [...]

As with all big new purchases, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the purchase of the replacement bicycles. And by bicycles, I mean bicycle. Rach was happy and relieved to have hers, but excitement was probably too big of a word to explain her feelings about it. She was merely getting a bike she [...]

It’s funny how things happen. Sunday night, our bikes were stolen. Bikes we treasured, bikes we loved. Bikes we sweated on, trained on, and raced on. A bike that felt like it could make me, a slow, fat man, fly. It wasn’t much, but it was mine. It made me happy not just because riding [...]

As I continue to implement “The Plan”, i’m having to be agile enough to adjust it to fit the hectic schedule I’ve had going on. From yesterday, you may remember that I got in 4 miles in the morning in the form of 8 reps of 1/2 mile each. I’d been having some pain in [...]

There’s a part of the traditional wedding vows that I think people might not always put enough weight on and that’s the “in sickness and in health”. I’m not talking about something life threatening like cancer, heart disease, or anything else like that. I’m talking about the changes that happen in your daily life when [...]

As you can read for yourself in the previous posts, the past 48 hours really didn’t go much at all as planned. In fact, I would say dropping out of the race and having our bicycles stolen really is basically the exact opposite of anything I had planned to start the month between the MA [...]

Hello all. In a rare violation of my 1 post per day maximum I am providing much needed good news. Thanks to the help of a superior claims adjuster, we have already settled with the insurance company. Thankfully, the bikes are covered, and even after our deductible, we’ll have enough money to buy at least [...]