This whole training for your second Ironman thing is really weird.  The first time around, every single week was a repeat of "omg, my c...

Seems that I got sucked into the Ironman Training blackhole.  Things are going pretty good, I'm just busy and hungry and tired.  Here...

One of my reasons for signing up for IMCDA is that I knew that I would have to get better at climbing hills to be successfull in finishing t...

I was sick for pretty much the whole month of March.  That put a dent in my training potential, as I had about 5 days where I pretty much sl...

There's a joke in my household.  I don't do anything half-assed.  Its either no ass or full ass. For the past three years, I have ...

My new bike is hopefully in production.  I thought it would be fun to share the process of getting a completely hand-made custom bike.  This...

Holy crap, it's March already?  Wow.  February just flew right on by. Weirdly, this month wasn't as big as I thought it would be. ...

Yesterday was one of those days where it really tests your mental toughness.  I had a 2.5 hr easy bike (in the comfort of my basement), fo...

This was the third and final installment of the local Winter Distance Series.  I signed up for the long series (10k, 10 mi, 10 mi) hoping th...

I was in Phoenix last week for work.  I was trapped in meetings all week - seriously, 3.5 days of SOLID meetings.  I got worked .  That mean...

IMTX and IMCDA don't exactly have the same training calendar - CDA is a month after TX.  Still, I was curious to see how my January 2013...

I've owned Buzz since January 2009, when I walked into my local bike shop and officially began my journey as a triathlete.  Buzz was the...

Ironman CDA training has started in earnest - well at least the base training has.  That means its time to start tracking my training! Ja...

I is (was?) a diehard Newtons fan.  Love(ed?) those things.  I've also run in Brooks before (Adrenalines in 2011) but got shin splints (...

aka skiing doesn't magically give you endurance miles. You think I'd have learned this lesson already.  Apparently not. I did th...

It was really cold this weekend in Colorado.  Which is a bummer when there's fresh powder up on the ski hills.  I would have loved to ha...

My last Ironman training experience was full of fear.  In my heart, I knew I could do it.  But I was motived by the thought of how much it w...

I had high hopes for most of 2012, but most of those hopes really weren’t realized. I had a really hard 2011 and a really hard early 2012, a...