How a friend helps you swim harder, train harder
Most of this week has been pretty easy to manage the fatigue but I was / am quite tired today. Thursday was a hard workout day, moderate to hard intensity water run, then bike intervals followed...
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Ironman St George bike profile and a MONSTER brick run
First off I need to give a great "shout out" and kudos to my best friend Bernie for his age category win at the Texas Half-Ironman (70.3) and his qualification to the world championships in Las Vegas...
View Article15 days to race date, taper started
Two weeks to race day as of tomorrow, so what's been happening.First off, my last heavy week ended up lighter than planned mostly because by mid-week I was thrashed. Legs heavy, congestion etc so after...
View Article12 days of taper to Ironman St George
Decided to use the Dave Scott taper program for this last two weeks before the race. Saturday I did the Run-Bike-Run (5km-43.5km-5km) in 23.5 minutes, 78 minutes, 24 minutes at just a little bit over...
View ArticlePacking and Gear Checklist for Ironman St George
Packing for Ironman should be an event. Two hours of sorting, organizing and packing everything up. My IM distance pool swim today in 61:45 (a new PB) seemed much easier by comparison. Earlier in the...
View ArticleTravel Days to St George
After traveling 14 hours south we still have not yet got rid of snow. Crazy for this time of year. Today we make the final 4.5 hr drive to St George proper after two days of travel. Last night we...
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Ironman St George Swim Course Preview (Video/Photos)
Greetings from a very sunny St. George UT, home of the 2011 Ironman St George course. The next three days I will be doing special course preview blog entries. Today's blog will cover the Ironman St...
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Four Days to Race Date
After arriving in St. George mid afternoon on Monday we checked in to our place at the Green Valley Resort. Everyone was happy to leave the snow behind us finally and see this type of vegetation.For...
View ArticleIronman St George T1 location
Following the swim in the Sand Hollow Reservoir the Ironman St George T1 transition zone is in a very large and quite nice parking lot. In addition to the standard port-a-potties a number of full...
View ArticleTriathlon Wetsuit and Booties
For most people getting on the triathlon wetsuit is a less than graceful art. At Ironman St George about 4 days before the race a couple of us went to Sand Hollow to get a test swim in. Due to my usual...
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Ironman St George Run Course Video Preview
Finished off Tuesday with an early evening run with Bernie, Leah, Frances and Aryana. I was kind of sluggish as we jogged along the middle part of the run route and through Pioneer Park but after we...
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IMSG Check-in and Athlete Dinner
It is starting to get very real now. Wednesday was a rest day and did some stretching to keep myself loose as well. Spent time at the pool teaching Gabby how to swim and then in the late morning the...
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Ironman St George Bike Loop Video and Pictures
It was a little late but here is the video of Ironman St George Bike Course with some still pictures of the course. Video of miles 0 to 18 on the bikeMiles 19 to 22 are already captured as part of the...
View ArticleFinal Post before the Race
Greetings from a VERY hot St George Utah, anticipating 92-93F as a high on race day. I was hoping for a bit milder weather but it is what it is. If anyone is interested in following me along in the...
View ArticleSt George Race Report (Short)
I will give a longer race report later but the short report is that I had a brutal swim and no idea why, I thought it was going well but came out and saw 1:09:45. Rode the bike to the planned heart...
View ArticleFull Race Report - Ironman St George - No excuses, no regrets
Anyone that knows me even a little bit knows I love to talk about my races. I will try to get all the detail here so I can share the short version in person and if someone really wants to know they can...
View ArticleOne Week after IMSG
It's been a week since Ironman St George. And it has been a tough week. I had focused so much on the race and while having a pretty good race given the heat it has left me feeling somewhat incomplete...
View ArticleLight week of workouts for post Ironman recovery
My plan this week is fairly simple. Relatively easy bike commutes to and from work with easy lunch swim, water run or weights with a longer workout on Saturday. Lunch today was a 2000m swim, my...
View ArticleIronman St George Detailed run course data for treadmills
2011 Ironman St George Run Data for treadmills (in miles) Repeat twice..25 @ flat.25 @ 6%1 @ 2%1 @ 3%.5 @ 6%.5 @ flat.5 @ 2%2.25 @ flat1 @ 3%.5 @ flat1 @ 4%.5 @ flat.5 @ 2%1 @ flat.25 @ 2%2 @ flatNote...
View ArticleAble to let go of running but maybe not triathlon
It's been three months since Ironman St George and I have come to pretty good terms about letting go of my road racing / competitive running due to my knee but letting go of my Ironman dream is not so...
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