You came home with a stray dog you found out on the bike course and you’ve named him “Wipeout.” She notices that instead of putting your bike in the rack in the garage you placed it in the recycling bin. He overhears you leaving a voicemail for a reality tv show called “I can’t believe …
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Whether you are training for a 10K, metric century or sprint triathlon finding time to train while working, enjoying time with your family and getting life’s essentials done is challenging. Things get even more complicated when you decide to go long and train for marathon distance or beyond, longer bicycle races or long course triathlon. …
Finding Time to Train for Running, Bicycling and Triathlon Read More »
There comes a time in every endurance athlete’s life when they realize that there are people who don’t get up at 5:00 am, only workout four or five times a week, and have never climbed a chainlink fence in the dark to do speedwork at the local high school track. Once this realization sinks in …
12 Catchphrases For Athletes Who Stopped Pretending to be Normal Read More »
What a difference a year makes! If I thought it was safe to go back to the gym I feel like I would actually be looking forward to the crowd of wannabe workout enthusiasts who always appear right after New Year’s and fade away sometime between Valentine’s and St. Paddy’s Day. As we watch the …
7 Preposterous Fitness and Diet New Year’s Resolutions Read More »
1. A runner won’t admit that he locked his keys in the car. No, he decided to run the extra six miles home to get more distance and was just checking to see if his spare keys were still stored in the fake rock next to the back steps. 2. A runner denies that when …
1) You ask the race director if she can move the swim to last so you can cool off after the run. She declines citing “rules.” 2) On the swim you collide with a buoy, overturn a kayak, and startle a mallard. 3) You use a helium balloon to find your bike in transition …
The year, 2020, was characterized by manic baking, improvised home fitness workouts, and baffling but rather specific hoarding. According to Reddit’s 2020 Year in Review, the sourdough subreddit showed a 378% increase in activity. The home fitness subreddit had a 612% increase in activity. I have this vision of men and women across the globe …
20 Observations about How Badly 2020 Sucked for Endurance Athletes Read More »
“On race day there are three kinds of thoughts: slow thoughts, go thoughts, and no thoughts,” said Psychologist, Joe Hammond at a talk he gave at Carolina Triathlon. Slow thoughts are about struggling. For example, it’s hot out here. The swim is so long. I’m tired. Go thoughts are about getting things done. I’ve got …
23 Easy Ways to Become a More Mindful Triathlete Read More »
Things I would have known if I had read the manual: Fat bike tires do not grip on ice unless they have studs. To stay fit this winter I decided to commute to work on my bike. My office doesn’t have a shower. My boss hung one of those tree air fresheners in my cube. …
