My Ironman training is proceeding apace. I’ve been doing strength and some base training since December. I’m about 4 weeks away from switching to a maintenance cycle on the strength workouts and ramping up more sport-specific training. The concentration at that point will be bike workouts and secondarily swimming. Honestly, I plan to take the …
Category Archives: triathlon
First Training Injury of the Year!
One of the challenges in training for an Ironman triathlon (so I’ve read) is staying healthy. I’m seen some uncited statistics that say 90% of all ironman-distance triathletes are injured in some fashion or another before race day. These uncited statistics never define “injury” so it’s difficult to figure what exactly they mean by it, …
Direct Consequences of Bad Design
Simon Whitfield, Canadian Triathlete, has posted on his blog about the frustrations inherent in keeping up with his athlete location reporting system. This is a great example of poor electronic design causing hardship. He is an athlete who is already under great stress to train and compete, plus deal with all of the myriad other …
Ironman 2009
I don’t believe I’ve made an official announcement about something that’s going to have a serious impact on my life(s) in the next twelve months. I’ve talked about it. I’ve mentioned it. I’ve alluded to it, but I’ve never made it official. Well, just to be up front: On November 7, 2009, I will race …
Ironman Florida 2008
Jenn and I attended Ironman Florida in Panama City Beach last weekend. The purpose was two-fold: first, to be there to sign up for the race in 2009; second, to watch the race. My flickr photo set is available here, although as of the time of this posting, I haven’t tagged or described anything. We …
Nike Women's Marathon
We’re off today to go to San Francisco for the 2008 Nike Women’s Marathon. Neither of us are truly “ready” for this race, but we’ll finish, even if our times aren’t what we’d like them to be. It’s a hilly course (duh, it’s San Francisco) but not terribly so. Especially not for people who train …
Peachtree City Triathlon 2008
Tonight we head down to Peachtree City for the 2008 Tri-PTC race. It’s a sprint triathlon (~400 meter swim, 20 kilometer bike, 5 kilometer run) and this will be our second time doing it. This was my very first triathlon last September and I’m sorta looking forward to it. Unfortunately, with my calf strain I’ll …
2008 Peachtree International Triathlon
All photo credits are due to Jennifer Bowie Yesterday, I finished my second triathlon, the Peachtree International, which was an Olympic distance tri: 1500 meter swim, 40k bike, 10k run. For the metrically challenged amongst you, and there better not be too many of those reading my blog, that’s 0.93 mile swim, 24.8 mile bike, …
2007 Peachtree City Triathlon
I raced my first Triathlon today! The Peachtree City Triathlon is a sprint tri (0.3 mile swim, 13.3 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) and I came in with a time of 1:23:56. This was about 10 minutes faster than what I thought I’d turn in, so I’m very satisfied. It was a blast, although the …