All about training
This is a crosspost of an article I wrote for JET Coaching, a coaching group out of Melbourne, Australia. Enjoy! As an 18 year veteran of pro triathlon racing, I often get approached at races by age group athletes asking all manner of questions. Taking a look at my bike or gear, it’s usually something […]
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Apologies to anyone who regularly visits this site (mom?) for having to look at that awful picture of my severely swollen ankle that I posted back in October. Fortunately my ankle no longer looks like that. Here is a more pleasing picture featuring Otay Lake and the mountains surrounding my current training location in Chula
I started writing this when it was still winter, but here it is April 22nd and I am just now finishing. So here is my winter update…in the spring. The big news from me is that Lindsey and I moved permanently to Boulder, CO in February. Lindsey and her previous coach, Margie Shapiro, decided to
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I am SO TIRED of looking at my post from Guatape. And after battling not one but TWO viruses on my website in the past month I found myself looking at that post a lot. I must post something new! If you visited my website you may have been notified that it was an “attack”
I take it I’ve told you about my condition? Plantar fasciitis…in both of my feet. But I’m happy to report that the injury subsided and I made a happy return to racing this past weekend, placing eighth in the San Francisco Pan American Cup! I was nowhere near race-ready, but I was newly race-able, so
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My life on the road continues. I stayed in Boulder long enough to adapt to altitude and learn that it’s best to pay with cash at Amante and then it was back in the car and off to Paulo Sousa‘s training camp in St. George, UT. This was certainly not in my plans when I
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Long ago I theorized on Twitter that when an athlete is injured he or she will generally not blog for the duration of the problem. Being a regular reader of many athlete’s blogs I noticed that sometimes a normally routine blogger would go months without an update. What am I supposed to read with my
The race this past weekend blended so well into my normal routine that I almost forgot to post about it! Other than acting as a homestay for Barrett Brandon and his wife Lauren, as well as Greg “the Future of Triathlon” Billington, I didn’t stray too far from the norm. Anyways, the race took place
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Did some 200m repeats last Thursday. A text from coach reads: “Arms are too long and feet too inactive.” Felt pretty active at the time! Video credit: Marc Bonnet-Eymard More of them tomorrow! The beard is gone.
So I have a beard. This isn’t to say it’s a great beard. In fact it’s probably only a step away from “patchy facial hair,” but I think it just barely squeezes by the threshold of beard status. I started growing the beard on the first day of training for 2011, so I started calling