Swimming, Biking and Running the Miami Rhoto Half-Ironman (plus underwater sparring, peeing your pants and torrential downpours). The race recap of the Miami Half Ironman. Intrigued? Read on.

In every race, there’s a few glamorous steps forward you take. The step across the starting line, the step across the finish line and possibly the steps in front of the water stations where you smile at the volunteers as you try and convince them that you’re not actually tired yet. Those steps are the easy ones. When you’re starting [...]

I had a really fun time racing with with Johnny at the Sylvania Triathlon last week. It was a lot of fun to not only do the race, but do it with someone, and then be able to hang out with them afterwards and talk for a bit. It was a really good time. There’s a seeming under-representation of bloggers in [...]

The Sylvania Triathlon After my last race, I needed to bounce back in a big way. I was disappointed because I knew I could do better than I had. And I knew that I was stepping it up in a big way this week. I was doing my first Olympic distance race of the year and I was meeting Johnny B [...]

Every once in a while, I’ll have a race that doesn’t go as planned. This race this past weekend was one of those. I woke up late for the race. I didn’t have directions to it. My bike got stuck in 2nd gear for half the race. I didn’t run a decent pace at all. At the end, I crossed [...]

I’ve been in a lot of pain this week. A lot. Running a marathon has literally been the most painful thing I’ve had to do in my entire life. Not only was I hurting immediately after the marathon, but this whole week has been a blend of slow movements, ice baths and newly invented swear words muffled under my breath. [...]

Running a Marathon – Not Impossible It’s been almost 6 months since my last official race.  That’s a long layover between athletic competitions for me, but that’s what happens in the Midwest. It gets cold, snowy and you don’t want to step foot outside, much less run in it. Anyways, a few months back after being cooped up all winter, [...]

I’m about 6 weeks away from running my marathon and it definitely hasn’t been all peaches and ice cream. I’ve been ramping up mileage the past few weeks and it’s been rough. A few weeks back I was on a 15 mile run along the beach in Kailua in Hawaii. The sun was shining, the weather was beautiful and it [...]

The Race I woke up at 4:30am the day of and got down to Indy. It had snowed Friday night and Saturday morning was not warm. I tried to warm up by jogging around, but my knee was sore the whole time and I could barely eek out a jog. How am I gonna run a half-marathon with this? I [...]