Hm. 2019. I'm not sure what to say about it. It was a strange year for me. But I feel like maybe it's just a year of change, where I settle into a new normal.

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This race was our Half Ironman Before The Ironman race. A chance to get in a long supported workout and practice transitions. Try out anything new. Test things.

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Last year I did the Rookie shortly after doing Ironman Texas. Having just done an Ironman, my body was a little beat up, but in great shape. This year was the exact opposite. This is basically the beginning of my Ironman training. I have a great run and swim base, but no speedwork for a really, really, REALLY long time, and no real work on the bike ( Read more... )

Definitely some revisionist history backdating this week, since I didn't get my race report finished until Thursday, and didn't want to post my weekly roundup until that was posted. But let's pretend like I'm posting this on Sunday, the last day of week 7!

Obviously this week was all about Ironman 70.3 North Carolina. Which I completed and ( Read more... )

My next big thing after Ironman Texas was (after a bit of recovery and downtime) to train for the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile trail race. That's almost 50 miles further than I've ever run at one time, and would require some intense and focused run training.

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I will, as usual, produce a ridiculous amount of dumb words about an event that most people would sum up in maybe 2 sentences, but I want to start with what's actually most important to me about this event ( Read more... )

Usually my What's Next posts happen because I've signed up for my next big race. An Ironman. A marathon. 3 marathons. Whatever.

This edition is extra complicated, because I've signed up for.. several things. Several very varied things. I will not get bored, is what I'm trying to say.

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I didn't really plan to do another triathlon 2 weeks after Ironman Texas, but when the rest of the band is getting back together (minus Trista, who couldn't justify another trip back to Texas for a sub-sprint triathlon), you can't just not participate.

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It's not uncommon to do a half Ironman when you're training for a full Ironman. And it's not uncommon for people training for Ironman Texas (IMTX) to do Ironman 70.3 Texas (Galveston) as a training race. However, normally Galveston is ~2 months before IMTX, so it's right as you're peaking, and you have plenty of time to recover. This year, because ( Read more... )

At some point, when you don't do something for a while, you have to stop and ask yourself, "... Was that it? Am I done with that? Am I retired now?"

Between 2007 and 2013, I did 6 Ironmans. In 2014 I did Ultraman Canada. Since UMC, I've done exactly one triathlon, and it was a sprint. Two years with only one sprint triathlon. Does that mean I'm ( Read more... )