The Chicago Triathlon. The race never meant to be timed. I finished my first olympic distance triathlon despite 90 degree heat, no timing devices and the longest 10k ever.

Just because you haven’t done something, doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Note the difference between the Impossible and the simply “not done yet”

It’s not that you’re not paying attention, it’s just hard to keep up with everything. If you’re like me you have anywhere from 50-100 blogs in your reader. Most post multiple times a week, and some post daily (and some post even more than that!). It’s hard to keep up with life in general, much less anything besides the latest post on the blogs your keep tabs on.

So what’s the best part of every blog that you’re missing out on?

This has literally been the hardest post I’ve ever written.

“It always seems impossible until its done.” - Nelson Mandela “To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.” - French Proverb “Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” - G. M. Trevelyan “So many of our dreams at first seem [...]

Adventure races have been growing in popularity in recent years and for good reason – they’re awesome While there are countless reasons why your next race [or first race] shoudl be an adventure race, here are 5 of them:

The July Edition of BIT updates is coming a little late. I’m sorry. I like to do these right at the end of the month, but I got caught up with my last minute triathlon. Either way, here it is. Better late than never. Blogging Looking Back In case you missed it, in the last month here at BIT we [...]

Why is a powerful question. The answer to that question is even more powerful. It defines your success. In fact, almost always your answer to why determines if you will succeed or fail. However, too often we fail to ask the question why.

Here’s the race recap. It’s sort of epic so here are some quick highlights to look forward to:

–My fastest bike time ever
–2 embarrassing stories
–A variety of semi-amusing photographs