The preparation for this race was anything but ideal. I mentioned it before that I tried to get the fun back into sport and one aspect to that was not to log countless hours. Right when I wanted to turn up the training by a notch I had to fly to Switzerland on a very […]
In January of 2015, I had been reading a blog about picking a focus word for the year. It sounded completely silly… except for after I was done reading the article, I kept thinking about it. The word ‘commit’ settled deeply into my mind as the goal for this year. Commit to the training necessary […]
Ironman Arizona was a quick turn around from the last race, with only 5 weeks in between. After Ironman Louisville I was excited for Arizona, all I wanted was my best race and a new PR. I was ready to train some more and polish up my form for Arizona. While my coach had lots […]
Finally getting around to finishing up my race report. My Garmin device managed to corrupt yet another file and Garmin support being completely useless. However, there is a tool out there which can fix your files (Fit File Repair Tool). However I am missing the last 7miles. Lead up to the race: I was excited for […]
After every training block at the end of the recovery week I’m supposed to do a triathlon. But this time I wasn’t so sure if I should. This season I struggled a little with the confidence in my fitness and I would have been just content for the Ironman to be my next race. However […]
I didn’t have a great race at the Seafair triathlon. This was probably my last triathlon before my next Ironman and I wanted to see if I could push myself and build some confidence. Furthermore, I wanted to figure out where my fitness is at. I was a little nervous and mostly just excited for […]
Leading up to the race I learned that there was also an elite wave. Upon inquiring at the check-in I learned there are no formal requirements and after some talking I decided to switch to elite. While I probably could have placed in the age group race, I was looking forward to a fast, hard […]
In the taper weeks leading up to Ironman Mont Tremblant, I was definitely still worried about it, and wondering if I had done enough training. Can you ever really do enough training for an Ironman? I knew before Whistler I had been disciplined enough to strictly cut back on the weekend excursions, follow the weekly […]
If you read my previous blog post from Ironman Whistler you know that I got sick during my overload training and never quite recovered. Furthermore, I got sick again just before race day which in turn led to my DNF. Well now 3 week later I was toeing the start line again. Even though the […]
Way too long post for a DNF 🙂 In short I got sick during the lead up. I still started the race but had a dry throat and a cough and gave up half way into the bike. Read on for all the details…. The lead up to this race wasn’t great. I got sick […]