Chrissie Wellington And I Have Something In Common

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Chrissie Wellington raced last year’s Ironman World Championships last year with a torn pectoral muscle and road rash.  She not only raced it but she won it in a record time and put in a blistering run, for which she is not typically known for.  With what happened to me yesterday there were questions, and [...]

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Dallas Rock N Roll Half Marathon Race Report

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Dallas Rock and Roll Marathon was not a race that I had planned at the start of the year.  It wasn’t until Amy Perkel of Boundless Nutrition sent me an email asking if I wanted free passes to the race (it is nice to have sponsors) that I added this event to the list.  Of [...]

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Ironman San Juan – The Beginning

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Ironman San Juan was an Amazing Race….literally.  On Tuesday I gave you the breakdown of trying to get home and on Wednesday I provided you with the race report.  Today I am going to tell you how I got to Puerto Rico.  This was such an adventure that CBS, Mark Burnett and Amazing Race host [...]

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Ironman San Juan Race Report

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Ironman San Juan was an incredible experience (outside of getting home but even that was an experience) and one I cannot wait to repeat again next year.  That is correct……I have plans to compete at Ironman San Juan next year.  The venue was incredible, the people better than that and the food was top-notch.  It did [...]

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Planes, Trains, Automobiles And Maybe A Bike?

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Ironman San Juan travel report coming first because I have gotten a number of emails, tweets and Facebook posts requesting a race report and I would love nothing more than to post one for you, but I think this entire trip deserves a handful of posts.  I am going to break this race report down [...]

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Stonebridge Half-Marathon Race Report

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Yesterday I ran the Stonebridge Half-Marathon for the second year in a row.  The distance works perfect for training purposes and it is a small race so you really get to enjoy it.  Not to mention the post race spread is pretty good.  This year Karen and my buddy Juan decided to join me in [...]

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Bold In The Cold 15K Race Report

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Yesterday Karen and I ran in the Bold In The Cold race in Grapevine, Texas.  Karen ran the half-marathon and I ran the 15K.  Last year at this event I finished in 3rd place in my Age Group and 41st overall with a time of 1:09:26.  My goal going into the race this year was [...]

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Las Vegas Rock N Roll Marathon Race Report

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Where do you start when you want to write a race report about a marathon in Vegas?  Vegas is an epic city!  Running a marathon is an epic event!  Hanging out with Beth and Emily is epic!  So much to say so let’s just jump right into all of it, but not before this: THANK [...]

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Dallas Running Club Half-Marathon Race Report

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Sunday November 6th was the date of the Dallas Running Club Half-Marathon and just a short two weeks after having raced 70.3 Austin.  In between the Half-Ironman and Half-Marathon I completed the following training: 18 mile run at a 7:51/mi pace. 13.1 mile run at 7:36/mi pace. Cycled for 1.5 hours and covered nearly 37 [...]

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70.3 Austin Race Report

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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 [...]

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