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This is a Part 2 to last month’s blog, where we talked about how to handle an injury before a big race. Here’s how it turned out. Ironman Boulder 70.3. Though my alarm was set for 3:45 a.m., I [...]

No, actually, that’s not the question. The question is, “rest and be healed or not rest and heal?” What are you getting at? I’m sitting here in a cabin at 7,464′ [...]

These tips are pulled from 220Triathlon.com. Some of the top triathletes in the world share their tips. I’d been thinking about sharing a bunch of random tips…stuff I think about when I’m [...]

A few months ago, you looked at your training plan and you were excited. Maybe you wrote it yourself or got it online or from a coach, but it appeared to be the perfect plan to nail that [...]

It’s May. “April showers bring…May races and June races and July, August and September races.” That’s not quite how the saying goes, but many of us are race-focused now. [...]

I recently did the Clash Endurance 70.3 Tri at the Miami-Homestead Speedway in Florida. Very cool venue. I’d never been in a huge NASCAR type of setting, and it was very impressive. It made [...]

I’ve made a ton of them over the years. You probably have, too, mistakes of all kinds in all areas of training and racing. Though I still make rookie mistakes at times, I think I’ve reduced the [...]

Yes, chunk. You might ask, “What the heck does that mean?  Did you mean chuck, as in toss aside? Are you saying I had a bad year and should just forget it? Trash it? How would you [...]

After a 16 year break from going long, only concentrating on short-course racing, this season I did two 70.3s in May and one in June. That left just one more, on July 25.  To read previous Race [...]

Triathlon is about cumulative knowledge. Each race, each season, we learn. A lesson here…a mistake there. That worked. This didn’t. Won’t ever do that again. I think I nailed this part! [...]