There has been a bunch of discussion and confusion on the facebook group for the Ironman Austin 70.3 about the bike course. For the sake of clarity, I figured I'd copy some of my comments, made on the group, into a livejournal post along with some helpful links.

First up, the course page for the race is here, on the Ironman website. The bike ( Read more... )

In keeping with my re-invigorated triathlon reports, here is my race report from todays Jacks Generic Triathlon. I had to finished the intermediate distance to continue in the Textas Tri series, at one point today, this was seriously in doubt.


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I guess about now marks the middle of the year for my race season, and I'm way behind as always these days of journaling my races and training. That's a shame, I often find myself using google to go back and look up triathlon related stuff, results etc. directly on my triman livejournal aka blogThis year I've been focusing on going back to short ( Read more... )

I've been racing the Couples Triathlon out at Decker Lake most years, since 2007, when I raced with my livejournal friend anetmarie. This year though, instead of racing in the "Friends" category, for the first time I got to race "More than Friends" with Kate.


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I couldn't wait for the Rookie triathlon this year, I'd been working hard on my running and really thought I had a chance at winning my age group in the Texas Tri series.

I've never raced the Rookie since it switched from the Texas Ski Ranch to Decker Lake/Walter E Long Park. As much as the ski ranch was a trek south, and lots of people hated the ( Read more... )

My running training with Erik Stanley/Trail Roots has been going well. Most weeks for the last 12-weeks we've been doing 1:1 Monday, Thursday sessions, with a long run alone on Saturday. This week we skipped Thursday session so I had a chance to recover ( Read more... )

I'd not run a 10k of any sort since this race a year before. I didn't do any Olympic distance triathlons either. I came to CAP10K pretty tired after a hard block of run training, I didn't have high expectations for a fast time ( Read more... )

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It's not an introspective race report; I thought I'd have a good race, hoped to set a PR in what will likely be my last (and only 2nd) full Marathon. Leading up to the race I'd done 2x 12-mile runs, 13-mile, 15-mile, 18-mile runs and while they were slow, they were mostly solid.

My only prior stand-alone marathon had been the Chosen Marathon, ( Read more... )

1. You can leave lip-balm in the car, the air is so dry you'll need it...
2. You can finally drive with the top down on your convertible
3. There is only one guy running on the Hike and Bike trail without a shirt on..
4. The smoking lobbiests outside buildings on Congress are starting to huddle together, even when though don't know each other
5. Up on the drag the ( Read more... )