Re-tooling Nutrition
As I have mentioned, at the moment, my biggest limiter is my body composition. I have somewhere between 25-40 pounds to loose in order to be at “race weight” — that is the weight at which I will race the Read more…
Goal Check
So with Sunday’s 5K, I finished my first chunk of base work for the 2011 season. The way my plan is set up, I had 12 weeks of base that spanned from October through the beginning of January, 4 weeks Read more…
Snow Dash 5K
I forgot how much 5Ks can hurt. Today was the Snow Dash 5K and I haven’t “run” a 5K in almost two years and I use the word “run” in the loosest possible way. The last time I crossed the Read more…
Body Composition as a Limiter
My biggest limiter is my body composition. As Coach Doug says I have the body of a swimmer and not of a triathlete. The goal is to get closer to the body of a triathlete without cutting calories so much Read more…
2010 – Year in Review
All in all 2010 was pretty good year both triathlon and life wise. For the first time ever in my less than illustrious triathlon career, I started to train consistently. I biked 305 hours, for a total of 5215 miles. Read more…
Warm Enough to Ride Outside
On January 1, 2011, for the first time in over 2 months, it was warm enough to ride outside. I had a four hour ride on the schedule and split it up — 2 hours outside and 2 hours inside Read more…
Bike Fitting
On the last day of 2010, Shaun and I ventured to Vermont to get 2011 started off right with a bike fit. We headed up to FitWerx in Waitsfield Vermont (about a three and half hour drive from Connecticut) to Read more…
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Better Late Than Never
As well as FIRMman went, HalfMax totally fizzled. Restrospectively doing a race 6 days after getting married was not the best idea. The week in Las Vegas and then the hurried trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina left me pretty Read more…
Breakthrough – FIRMMan Race Report
As part of my training for HalfMax I raced at the FIRMman Half in Narragansett Rhode Island. My goal pre-race was to go 5:40:XX and qualify as an age grouper for HalfMax (as an aside I had already qualified as Read more…
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You Have to Start Somewhere
I feel like everyone and their three-legged dog with a blind left eye has a “couch-to-athlete” blog detailing the trials and tribulations of going from fat lay about to bona fide triathlete (or marathoner or Ironman or whatever the athletic Read more…