I’ve been lacking motivation. I’ve been frustrated with my weight loss, or lack thereof. I’ve been tired. I’ve been putting off restarting training. I have some great news about my 2012 season, but it doesn’t mean much if I don’t start getting ready for it. It really won’t matter. I’m ready to start working. I’m [...]

I know it’s a cliche but I truly am thankful for the blessings and friends in my life. I had a great day Sunday; Rach and I ran the Wake County PTA 5k, and then had a terrific Thanksgiving dinner. The race was a cross country trail run, in 80 degree heat (in November no less) [...]

It’s been a pretty good and quiet week. I go home next week for Thanksgiving, and I can’t wait to spend time with my family, run the Thanksgiving 5k, and eat some turkey. Before then I’m going to run a 5k and eat some Turkey. Confused? Rach is going to be away with her basketball [...]

When I was growing up, all I really wanted to be was this guy: I even still have the haircut Somewhere along the way, instead of becoming that guy, I became this one: I think he’s placing a pizza order into the microphone As I look back at last season I have a lot that [...]

I’ve always been an extrovert. It was my primary defense mechanism  when I was picked on pretty heavily as a kid (today they’d call it bullying). I’ve more than once been guilty of speaking before I put thought into my words. But I also have an introspective side, and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about [...]

So I’ve got some stuff to share, and not all of it is pleasant. It’s been a challenging week here, to say the least, but things are looking up! When I was on my way home from Shipwreck Tri, Rachelle called to tell me that she had just spoken to her mom, and after 28 [...]

Saturday was the last race of a very challenging, but successful triathlon season. With back-to-back DNFs in my big goal races, I learned that I hadn’t bitten off more than I can chew, I just didn’t do quite enough chewing. Even with “failures” in my “A” races, I had the itch to get back in [...]

Somebody is drinking plenty of liquids and getting lots of sleep in my house… … sadly it isn’t me. I was reading the other day that it takes 4 days to properly hydrate leading up to a race, and so it’s no surprise that someone with my sweat rate (roughly 8 gallons per hour), it’s [...]

Yesterday, I had a really bad day. I mean, really bad. And there are no reasons why I had a bad day, just excuses. Lots of shitty excuses that I made to my wife and to myself to try and justify my actions. Or technically my lack of actions yesterday. 5 days until race day, [...]