My season is going well, after the somewhat disappointing Austin Marathon, which in retrospect is a relatively hard course, I had a reasonable CAP10k on April 7th, and had a full week of training this week, I'd consulted with Brandon via email and we agreed ROTT Half was a good structed, supported workout ( Read more... )

I headed down to Corpus Christi on Saturday for the Sunday half ironman distance race. The entry price was right, no day before racking your bike, and the timing was right for me to test out my ironman fitness, with Challenge Roth only around 100-days from now; the field was also ripe for a podium position, since the entries for first year long ( Read more... )

Sunday see's my first race of the season the half distance Republic of Texas Triathlon. This is unique for me, I've never done a half as my first race of the season. It's also unique for another reason, it's the first time I've had a personal coach since the lead-up to the 2002 ITU World Championships, 10-years ago. Wow.

My prep has left me feeling ( Read more... )

 So I've seriously been neglecting posting race reports and stuff here on Livejournal this year, and so in an effort to make up. Here is the scoop on this w/e's High Five Events Couples Triathlon. Hot off the press as they say...

First up, it's the second race in the Texas Tri series, and probably the last one I'll do. Since I'm the lead organizer ( Read more... )

Which really describes my recent blogging efforts on Livejournal. I'm way behind on race reports, mostly put off by an exceptionally poor race weekend at the Lonestar Traithlon festival in Galveston. But I'll get back to that sometime. Not withstanding that, I came 2nd in the Texas State Sprint Triathlon, 3rd in the Rookie triathlon aka the Sprint ( Read more... )

Having got back from a poor Half-Iron 70.3 race in Orlando, and then had two weeks of non-stop pain from Plantar Wart treatment, I wasn't really expecting much from the Splash and Dash, perhaps just to see how far my running had regressed. Only Monday afternoon did I go visit the company medical center and have the nurse lance and draw the fluid ( Read more... )