Sorry for the long blog post, but it was a long race and there was so much more I could have included. The whole winter the only goal I head to push through the endless hours on the trainer was to qualify for Kona at Ironman Los Cabos. For this reason I was also slightly […]
Amy wanted to do her first Olympic distance race this year so we settled on the HITS series which I haven’t done before. Coincidence has it that it happened to be national championship (in Palm Spring CA). Honestly though since they don’t offer any price money I didn’t expect a lot of professional athletes to […]
Sorry for the long post, but there are so many things I wanted to mention. Besides I figured that people who read my blog are reading it to know what is going on in my head and what I experienced. If you are just interested in the result jump to the bottom and use the […]
Note: I’ll add links to the official website and adjust the splits once I get the official times. (starting the watches by hand was a little off) My season plan called for a Olympic distance race as preparation for my Ironman. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find on so I picked the longest sprint triathlon I could […]
It is already 3 weeks since I did my second Ironman. Since the race I was busy recovering and having fun in Switzerland. Now I am back in Seattle and settling into a normal rhythm again while preparing for my next Ironman. So it is about time that I publish this race report. After the […]
This weekend I did my first sprint triathlon. Initially I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do this race since it was only 3 weeks before my Ironman, but my coach convinced me that it would be a good thing to get some speed work in before the Ironman. Since Amy was visiting that weekend […]
This was my first triathlon this year and should be a good test for where I stand with my training. Also this was a key event for QT2Systems. Which meant that over 20 athletes were racing in QT2 gear. The pacing plan from my coach called for a 4:36-4:42 finish time. Even though I was […]