Ironman Texas Training Video Blog – Weeks 19 and 20

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Ironman Texas training is in taper mode now and as I heard on Sunday……DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME…… That is how I feel right now.  I am coming down the home stretch to the finish line.  This training cycle has taught me so much about who I am and what I can accomplish.  It has [...]

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GI Distress….Oh Boy!

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GI distress finally hit me yesterday.  I’m not sure what it was but I am glad it happened yesterday which is 3 weeks prior to Ironman Texas.  I got started at 10:30am which is about 3 hours later than I would normally start as well as 3.5 hours later than the race will start.  I [...]

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Ironman Texas – Weeks 17 and 18

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Ironman Texas is now less than one month away.  It is a day I have been preparing for nearly a year.  I remember the feeling of euphoria and fear when I hit the register button and they processed my credit card.  The adrenaline coursed through my veins like a runaway train.  It was unbelievable to [...]

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Mental Toughness Thursdays

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Mental Toughness Thursdays are going to be my version of Thankful Thursday or Three Things Thursday.  Since Ironman training started I have found Thursday to be the toughest day of the week to train.  It is my hump day in that all the training and working leading up to this day has added up and [...]

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Double Ironman….

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A double Ironman is typically known as 281.2 miles over the course of two days.  The time limit is 48 hours so you do have the opportunity to sit back and take a nap, but even that just sounds bananas.  Of course, when I registered for Ironman Texas I had no clue that I would [...]

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Food: Can’t Live Without It

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Food is something we can’t live without.  Go ahead and say it altogether now:  Thanks for the information there Columbo.  Let me be clear about what I mean.  We need food to not only provide us with energy, in the form of calories, but we also need it to prevent illness as well as to [...]

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Ironman Texas Training Video Blog

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Ironman Texas training has clearly entered into the ‘man this is hard’ world.  The workouts have increased in duration.  The workouts have increased in intensity.  The workouts have pushed and pulled me to areas I never thought were imaginable. Let’s take the last three days (not including today) as an example: Saturday:  100.2 miles on [...]

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Wear Your Helmet…..I’m Not Asking

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Wearing your helmet while riding your bike is not an option in my mind. After today’s events it should not be an option for anybody that reads this blog or is a member of my family or a member of your family.  What happened you might be asking yourself. The simple answer is I went [...]

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Ironman Texas Training – Weeks 13 and 14

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Ironman Texas training has entered some zone but I’m not sure what zone.  These past two weeks have been filled with races and hardly any taper or recovery…..it has been bananas, and I have eaten my fair share of bananas.  I may have to track my banana consumption alone to see how much it really [...]

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Pacer Or Chaser?

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Pacer or Chaser?  No, not a basketball team or even a car but how you would describe yourself as a runner. So do you ever find yourself driving and see a car with a 26.2 sticker on it and you try to catch it and pass  it?  Walking into the grocery store, and you feel [...]

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