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I admit it, I went back to Stacy tonight. Wet, warm and waiting ( Read more... )

I've had a great week of training with the Trowbridge based Hot Chilli triathlon club. I did 2 sessions with them back in January and when I got this trip booked, joined online.

Its been well worth it for this week alone. Friday early was a pool based swim with Coach Richard Smith, Richard bought along an Aquasphere wetsuit for me to borrow. ( Read more... )

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I got an email from a local neighborhood person who wants to do their first triathlon as a half ironman. I wrote a long response, and thought I'd post it here. Comments, feedback?

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So for six of the last eight weeks, Saturday morning has meant early to rise and get out to Decker Lake aka Walter E Long Park. The point was to support rides of the Longhorn aka Austin 70.3 course. The first week was an ultra slow as I marked the course with two construction paint sprays. These it turned out were a good investment, they lasted ( 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... )