Rachelle and I have temporarily joined a gym. When I say temporarily it’s because it’s the closest gym that has a pool, but it’s $100 a month PER PERSON to be a member if you’re on a month to month plan. We’d need that flexibility due to our impending move. The gym we’re going to right [...]

Friday night, Rach and I went to a technical presentation put on by the lead engineer of the Trek Advanced Concepts Group hosted at Belmont Wheelworks. The discussion was not for the technically faint of heart as the topics included wind tunnel testing, different forms of foil shape (essentially how they bend the carbon or [...]

Last weekend at the Patriot Half, I was given incorrect information from the race director at a crucial time that led me to believe I wouldn’t be given the full time I planned to have in order to finish the race. When I contacted him after the race regarding the situation, he said he wasn’t [...]

I’m really excited for Friday night. Belmont Wheelworks is having an event this weekend with Carl Matson who is the lead design engineer of the Trek Advanced Concepts group. I don’t know what the hell that means but I think advanced concepts == FAST! Friday night Rach and I are going over there for about [...]

4 days after the race, and I think I’ve had enough time to mull over what went right and what went wrong this weekend, and the lessons I’ve learned: – More Training – This should seem obvious, but I felt ready for this race. My times were faster than Timberman, so that tells me progress [...]

The night before the race, literally everything was going according to plan. We got to the hotel on Friday night about the time I expected, even with a late start and a stop for lunch, got our packets, played some games at the amusements place across the street, and had a great pasta dinner (Olive [...]

When I first started doing triathlons, I figured the only thing I’d do that was worse than than running would be running uphill. Training in the heat, sweating, pain the undercarriage from long hours on the bike; none of these compare to the hardest part of triathlon; the dreaded taper. It’s now been 5 days [...]

Yesterday, I listed my goals. Today I list my fears. Having fears and talking about them doesn’t mean I’m not confident, it merely means these are the concerns I’ve thought about in terms of the race: 1. race day weather – Being a bigger athlete, hot weather affects me more than most. The weather reports [...]

I’ve come up with a new format for how I want to relay and record my thoughts as I prepare for my “A” races from now on. There will be a topic for each day, so I can stay organized and talk through what I am thinking. Monday is about my goals for the race. [...]

We’re just over a week away from Patriot half-ironman right now, and we’re wrapping up the hard training this week. Last night, as a way to check/work on my fitness at climbing hills, I went over to the overpass by my house, where there are back to back overpasses, plus a walking ramp that taking [...]