And, after nearly 10 months of training, there we were: at IRONMAN Wisconsin! pre-race Up and at ’em at 4a, race morning started as usual… toast, double shot espresso, Osmo preload, temporary tats and last…
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Never give up. These words, said by a friend a few weeks before the race, carried me through IRONMAN Wisconsin… through a longer swim than anticipated, 5,700 feet of #bikelove and climbing and shifting and…
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Chisago Lakes 70.3 on Saturday was my first race of the season – and, with a shiny new PR (for Nick, too!), it was a good one! I knew if everything went well, a PR was…
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You know you biked your legs off when you say, “I think I may die,” at the end of the race. Not much to say about last week’s Twin Cities Spoke Tuesday Night Time Trial,…
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Thirteen miles of all-out pain pedaling kicked off my 2014 race season last week. I raced week one of Twin Cities Spoke Tuesday Night Time Trials, and in between rolling hills and a wicked…
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Rounding out my season (most likely) was last week’s TC 10 Mile. And, given I haven’t exactly been on a structured training schedule since IRONMAN Canada – that starts again in two weeks –…
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IRONMAN Canada recovery has been coming along nicely – my recent runs have been around 8:30 pace – but I was still a little apprehensive about running hard during last Saturday’s lululemon RUN: twin…
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All I could think about during my 4:18 T2 was how bad I had to pee. Twenty-two miles is a long way to bike when you have to go! After the awesome volunteer dumped…