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Do It Yourself Camp

Several weeks ago I asked ML about having my own “training camp” in preparation for Ironman Louisville. I had looked at my work schedule and found a block of days to take off so I could have a 5 day block to train, eat and sleep. The time we picked ended 4 weeks prior to…

Toughin it out. No UltraGen, heat, humidity, and flood support!

An interesting two weeks (or how to stick with in on flood duty)


While I love triathlons, I am by no means a professional, which means my real job does have a way of making my training much more difficult. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. I just completed an eleven day

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Decisions, decisions


Here we go again. I started out the year with a very ambitious plan for my racing schedule this year. But work has picked up and I developed a nasty case of Plantar Faciatsis in my left foot. Both of which have significantly impacted my training, particularly my running. So now I’m a few

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Tax Day, Heel Pain, and other challenges


April 15th-Tax Day. Every year I tell myself I’m going to do things right and knock out the taxes early and each year I end up waiting until the last minute. Cranking out those numbers bouncing from form to form, trying to figure out what the heck they are asking for. Basically a great

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Here We Go Again

 

I am sitting on a plane en route to San Juan to race 70.3. I am really looking forward to visiting a new place, competing in a new race, but not so happy about the “conditions”.

I new this past month would be a rough one with the increased “power” of my allergy shots,…

The Good News and the Not-So-Good News

Most of you know I’ve been dealing with some heel pain in both feet off and on for about a year.  How it usually goes is it won’t be terrible for a while, then it gets a little bit worse, so I take a few weeks off of running.  It gets a little better so…

Costa Rica Race Recaps

 

It’s 2:30 a.m on Monday here in Costa Rica-and as usual for me, I am wide awake post race, so I thought this would be a good time to write my report while thoughts are fresh. What has become (sadly) the norm for me is that a race report begins with a medical update.…

Soup Night

 

Yesterday I posted a comment about it being Soup Night at our house. One of my Trakkers teammates asked me what kind I was making, and that led to a discussion, and sharing recipes. So I thought I would make a weekly (hope to make it weekly) “Soup Night” Blog post, if you care…

Cochlear Implant Thoughts

I have a lot of decisions to make these days, one of which has absolutely nothing to do with triathlon but everything to do with me being able to hear better.  I’m contemplating (actually i’ve already decided) to go ahead and have a cochlear implant surgery. I won’t go into too many details on what…

Too Much Bad

 

In previous Blog posts I have made reference to my staff. “Staff” is not the right word. They are an amazing group of people who work their little tails off (and have been the #1 Behavioral Health Department for the Company since our inception in 2005 to show for it). They are funny, creative,…