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Race Report – 2022 Pocono Triathlon Festival Olympic Distance

2022 Race and course report for the olympic distance triathlon at the Kinetic Multisports Pocono Triathlon Festival in Hawley, PA and Lake Wallenpaupack.

Race Report: Pittsburgh Half Marathon 2014

If you read my previous post on our trip report to Pittsburgh, you know that my wife talked me into running this race with her so that she could coerce me to go to Pittsburgh for a long weekend. You also know that my wife could not run the race due to knee issues, so …

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Road Trip: Pittsburgh 2014

Travel, pittsburgh

It is really hard to believe that I have lived in Pennsylvania for over 45 years, traveled all over the world and have never been to the city 4.5 hours to our West. It is the place we Eastern-PA-er’s usually refer to when we hear of a PA town that we have no idea where …

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Hurricane Sandy(Oct 30, 2012)

[nggallery id=9 template=carousel images=7] Some photos of the local aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Managed to escape without any issues and power & internet still on. Some homes around are without power. I got lucky on this one. Rough night of sleeping with major winds/gusts and occasional blue flashes from transformers exploding. Temperatures dropping into 40’s …

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Steelman 2010 Triathlon Race Report

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://brianschwind.net/wpblog/?p=128 It’s hard to believe I have embarked on my third triathlon already in the last year. The Steelman was one I had steered away from last year due to a longer than usual swim. The Steelman Sprint consists of a 860yd(0.5 mile) swim, a 15 mi. bike and a 5k(3mi) run. This year it …

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