Summer Traditions
Charlie and I got our summer/race-ready haircuts this week. Now we’re really ready for the summertime heat. I think I did my last semi-long bike ride this morning in Central Park. It was a good ride, despite the fact that the park is pretty much a sh*t-show on weekend mornings in the summer, even at…
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This is getting realer* by the second. My taper post from late June was a little bit of a false alarm. Two weeks ago (four weeks out), I trained 12 hours and last week I trained 9.5 hours, including some hard sessions in each discipline each week. But now, the taper has now really started….
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4th of July (and the three day weekend) has come and gone. It was a nice long weekend with some good training, tons of great sports on TV, a lot of walking around the City and a wedding. The training highlight of the weekend was my return to Brighton Beach for an ocean swim. I…
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Trigger Point Technologies
A few weeks ago when Elizabeth and I were in Austin, I had the good fortune of arranging a meeting with Cassidy Phillips, the founder, owner and CEO of Trigger Point Technologies. Trigger Point makes great products and Cassidy is a total stud. The long-winded post below is mostly just a recommendation for any runner,…
Read MoreMonthly summary – June 2008
Here’s June 2008: Swim: 24,090 yardsCycling (outdoors): 540.7 milesCycling (indoors): 1:00 (hours)Run: 109.7 milesStrength Training/Yoga: 3 sessions Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 56:30 hours Weight: 163 pounds This was a really good month. Definitely my best of 2008. I did five long, hard, hilly rides plus weekly shorter rides in the Park. I ran a…
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NYC Waterfalls!
Yesterday morning New York City Waterfalls, the City’s newest public art “show” opened in the East River. Essentially, a Swedish artist created four massive “waterfalls” that suck water up from the river and cascade it back down. The tallest one is 120 feet tall. I’d been reading about it for a while and seen some…
Read MoreFour Weeks to Go/Taper Begins
Yesterday was the end of my hardest training week this season and today marks the beginning of a four week race taper. (Even though my taper officially begins this week, other than a day off today, I’ve still got some tough work ahead of me for the next couple weeks.) Since the middle of May…
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CAF Celebration of Heroes, Heart and Hope
Wednesday night Elizabeth and I went to the Challenged Athletes Foundation’s Celebration of Heroes, Hearts and Hope. The event is CAF’s annual fundraising gala and fortunately for us takes place right here in Manhattan. Last year we couldn’t go because it was right before the Ironman and we were already up in Lake Placid. We…
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K-Swiss Ultra Natural Run shoe review
If you remember, right before my knee problems started, Elizabeth and I received pairs of the new K-Swiss Ultra Natural Run shoe from a friend of ours who does PR for the company. K-Swiss is trying to enter the running shoe market and is specifically targeting triathletes with the Ultra Natural Run. Supposedly top pro…
Read More5 Weeks!
Can you believe that the Ironman is five weeks from today? Neither can I. Unlike last year when I was counting down the hours, this year the race has totally snuck up on me. I had a good, pretty hard ride in the farm country outside Washington DC yesterday. Despite the fact that my legs…
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