The grueling Iron Mountain brick! The hardest brick we do features a 29-mile bike with 2400′ of climbing followed by a 5.5 mile run with 1600′ of climbing that will burn a good 3500 calories. It was a long 3.5 hour workout and I was so tired when we finished. After it was all over I […]
Yesterday I met coach at Marion Bear Park at 6:30 am to do a trail run. When I got out of my car it was 40 degrees! I tried my best to hide my “grumpy face.” I dont have a problem with working out early in the morning… but I do get grumpy when it […]
Today I started my base-buliding for the upcoming Tour De Tucson. I started it off with a 2-hour, zone 1 & 2 workout. It was long and slow but I had music to keep me company. It ended up being about 30 miles which translated to 14 laps around fiesta island. I will keep building […]
I went on an run this morning with my Lavaman Triathlon coach. I met him there and did 4.5 miles through marion bear park. It felt good to be running again. I hadn’t run for about a week. I wore my new running shoes and they felt awesome. I love running in new shoes. I […]
I love days like today because I’ll go to bed knowing I understand life a little better than when I woke up this morning. A year ago I signed up to do the Lavaman Triathlon with team in training. I jumped all over the oppertunity to be in a completely different social setting than I […]
The exciting news for this week is that I have registered for El Tour De Tucson. It is a very popular 109-mile bike race is Tucson, AZ. Im going with my old youth pastor who is probably going to kick my boo-tay. So I will be doing a lot of cycling over the next month […]
Sunday morning was the Mission Bay Sprint Triathlon. My goal was to beat last years time of 1:15:01. This is a pic of my buddy Nelson and I in the transition area before the race… and yes, it is still dark out.
We set up our transition area, wrote our numbers on us and shortly after […]