Fueling An Endurance Athlete Lifestyle With Whole Foods
Today is Halloween. The holiday, that I have no idea how/where it started, where people feel the necessity to get dressed up as something that they are not. As a kid it was great as you got out the pillow case and went door to door begging for candy and people happily obliged. Of course [...]
As humans we are creatures of habit and while change is a good thing it may not be so good when it comes to training for endurance events. If you have read this blog long enough you know that my weeks are setup the same from week to week and that I get up at [...]
As you know by now my swim has been the hardest discipline for me to improve upon whether it was getting faster or swimming straighter. I have truly embraced swim training though because it has been so hard. I love the challenge of tackling something that is not easy. I love the challenge of staring [...]
I love to cook. Spending hours in the kitchen is not a problem for me. Dicing, chopping, sauteeing…..these are all words that make music in my mind but I also know that not everybody is like me. People want to get into the kitchen and get out as fast as possible without sacrificing taste and [...]
You know what an oxymoron is right? Jumbo Shrimp? Smart Jason? You see it’s using an adjective to describe the opposite really. In more Merriam-Webster speak an oxymoron is: is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Yesterday I was using Google to search for what would be considered the healthiest food. I wanted to [...]
With my last triathlon of the season having been completed on Sunday at Austin 70.3 I started thinking about what this off-season would represent for me. What I would focus on during this stretch. I have a half-marathon coming up in two weeks and then 4 weeks after that I am going to make my [...]
It has taken me a couple of days to process this race in more than just a race report format. In the car ride home I went over what could have been done better or done differently to improve my results. Some may read that and say to themselves: Is this guy for real? He [...]
I will start by saying it was a very good day at the office overall, but with any race you have to take the time to analyze and understand where you can get better so that you keep improving. My second statement is a huge Thank You to all of you that sent text messages [...]
If you are a consistent reader of this site then you know that second to nut butter, and a close second, is pizza. Not just any pizza though, it has to be New York style pizza. Not that Chicago stuff that is nothing other than an open faced stromboli (sorry Chicago pizza lovers, but its [...]
Mind games are going to happen when you race an Ironman and is, what I believe, to be the difference between people of similar ability. Your thought process is going to swing all over the place during an Ironman but playing mind games and controlling what you are thinking of will help you tremendously in [...]
Disclosure: This is a review for the Huma Chia Gel product that was sent to me for free. I did not pay for this product and was not asked to provide a positive review in exchange for the product. Huma Chia Gel was a product that I was introduced by John Flynn of the blog [...]
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