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Planning and Executing The Ironman

December 23, 2011 By CTER 16 Comments

Ironman Texas is a total of 21 weeks away and being a planner I am starting to think about how to race that day. It may seem early to be thinking about that but the reason I am thinking about it is because I train the way that I race. If I can eliminate as [...]

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Are You Dynamic?

December 1, 2011 By CTER 9 Comments

When I first hired Coach C to train me I was of the school of static stretching. You know what static stretching is. Stand with your feet next to each other and then bend over and touch your toes and hold for 12-15 seconds. No bouncing or risk injury. You do this twice and then [...]

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Las Vegas Strip At Night Marathon Tapering

November 28, 2011 By CTER 25 Comments

The Rock and Roll Las Vegas Strip At Night Marathon is in less than one week from today. This means that I have already started tapering. My last long run was on Saturday which was 13.1 miles and that I ran in 1:41 and felt great despite the 20-30 mph winds. Sunday was a short [...]

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Do You Avoid These Common Mistakes While Marathon Training?

November 19, 2011 By CTER 11 Comments

Today I will be heading out at 3pm to start a 22 mile training run. I have a goal of running the 22 miles at around 8:00/mile. Two weeks ago I ran 18 in 7:51/mi and last week I ran 20 in 8:40/mi. The difference I believe can be answered by the fact that last [...]

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Analyzing Yourself To Get Better

November 14, 2011 By CTER 14 Comments

Triathlon can be a microcosm for life. There are ups and downs. There are triumphs and failures. There are great days and awful days. In the end it is how you react to both that defines you and allows you to progress through both sport and life. Yesterday I posted about how my first late [...]

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Strip At Night Las Vegas Marathon Training Run

November 13, 2011 By CTER 13 Comments

On December 4th I will toe the line with Emily of Run EMZ fame in an attempt to qualify for Boston. My wife Karen, Beth of SUAR, Trish, SkibbaDoo, Jess, Beal and a whole host of others will be there as well. This is not like any other marathon in that it starts in the evening. [...]

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Cold Cycling

November 12, 2011 By CTER 15 Comments

Tomorrow I am planning on heading to Texas Motor Speedway to get in a one hour recovery ride. This one hour will yield approximately 4 laps around the 5 mile loop. The reason I am going there is that there is no traffic, but the downside is that there is a 2 mile stretch on [...]

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Where Is My Speed?

November 10, 2011 By CTER 27 Comments

I am not writing this post about the fact I am afraid of qualifying for Boston. I am writing this post because I want to talk about the lack of speed I displayed at 70.3 Austin. It has been haunting for the past few weeks that my time at the half-marathon was 1:53. This is [...]

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That Course Was Long

November 8, 2011 By CTER 20 Comments

On Sunday I ran the Dallas Running Club Half-Marathon and my watch when I was finished read 13.13 miles. Extremely accurate I would say, wouldn’t you? When I was done I stayed by the finish line to wait for Karen to finish. As I was waiting I heard runner after runner say that the course [...]

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How Do You Get To Events?

November 3, 2011 By CTER 27 Comments

As most of you know I have an Xterra known as the Team Baha Mobile. I have had my Xterra since 2001 and I absolutely love it. It is rugged and obviously durable since it has handled Northeast winters and now Texas Summers. As I got into the endurance sports world the Xterra was perfect [...]

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