“Fuckity fuck fuck.” “This is such a disappointment.” “I need to get off this bike.” “I need a hug.” These are all words that have come out of my mouth in the last 36 hours or so. All of them the result of Ironman Hawaii and my poor performance. I don’t want to dwell more than a paragraph or two on Kona; If it isn’t …

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I started off writing this post yesterday. A day where I showed up at the YMCA – at zero-dark AM – to swim indoors for the first time in weeks, only to find the pool closed for some maintenance issue, leading me to toss on my running clothes and do my hard run for the week, with the plan of finding a different pool to …

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Well my writing time last week was devoted to documenting the results of my wetsuit testing, so I didn’t get around to doing the weekly update, so this one is a twofer. While I seem to have solved the swim issue, my bike fit continues to be a work in progress, after playing around with shortening the reach and it …

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Barely made this update before the end of the week after it’s updating. It’s been a busy week this week. Between work and family activities, I haven’t had a lot of free time. After pondering a lot last week about my swimming and the potential impact of a wetsuit I’ve decided that I’m going to do some testing. I’m going …

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This past week was a really solid one. It ended with a good performance at Elkhart Lake. I’m really happy about how the race went. It wasn’t without it’s negatives – I was a bit sad faced about my bike split when I compare it to James/Blake/Andrew, but this was probably my best Olympic distance result in at least 4 …

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This week was a very solid week. I successfully pulled my reach in a fair bit, and have been really happy with the results in how I feel on the bike, my power output, and how much my hip flexors have relaxed. I’m going to make the cut on the bars, which are currently uncut tri-rig extensions, although maybe I could try …

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This week I spent a lot of time focusing on my bike posture – I did some reading/searching about bike position, power loss and power sustainability. The highlight of what I found is summed up pretty well in an article by Steve Hogg. The synopsis of it is that our brains can only recruit so much muscle when you are …

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In an effort to try and jump start my blog updates, which I find to be very cathartic, I’m going to try and post a weekly summary of my training. Being the week after an Ironman, this week was primarily focused on sleep and gluttony. Monday was a zero, which was followed by a slow and easy 20 minute run on the …

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