May 16
Ironman Foundation Donation Page… As most of you probably know, I am competing in Ironman Lake Placid on July 28th which consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and a marathon. It has been a long, hard journey over the past 5 years to get to this point, but I realized that my …
May 12
My stomach sank when I opened an email from a fellow triathlete/co-worker the other day. It indicated the “SwimSmart” changes to the swim start of Ironman Lake Placid and a few other mass swim start events. In the back of my mind I always wondered if this would happen, but I never thought it would …
May 09
Ironman announces the SwimSmart Initiative. which changes to the mass swim starts at Ironman Lake Placid and few others in 2013.
May 06
I’m On No Sleep, No Sleep!. You Don’t know What It’s Like In There… Race morning did not get off to a good start. I hardly slept a wink the whole night and was tossing and turning trying not to look at the clock. I am not sure what if it was the large chai …
May 04
As I sit here in bed at the Fairfield Inn in the lovely town of Millville, NJ, I am finding it hard to believe my first triathlon of the season is tomorrow morning. Although the gear laid out systematically around the room does remind me of it pretty regularly. Tomorrow is the NJ Devilman Half-Lite, …
May 04
Denise and I both ended up having off on Friday, but we never really planned on doing much. We discussed going to the shore early, but with my cold I didn’t feel like being away from home another night. During the morning though we decided to take a road trip down to New Hope, PA …
May 02
Well the good news is that my Swimmer’s Ear actually healed up pretty quickly. Bad news is that some sort of allergy-induced sinus cold came on just as quickly. Yesterday(Wed) I had runny nose and sneezing and now this evening I am started to develop an annoying little cough. All this heading into my first …
May 02
The alarm went off at 5AM on Sunday morning. 5AM has become a normal time for me to wake up anymore, even on a Sunday. Today was the 2013 St. Luke’s Lehigh Valley Half Marathon. I had run this race once before, but his time the goal was getting my wife to the finish of …
Apr 29
A Wedding… Friday morning was my normal long, slow 45 minutes swim. I was feeling pretty good and happy that my ear was feeling better, so I threw in an extra 250 meters for good measure. One of my wife’s cousins was getting married that evening, so I rushed home after work to get dressed …