First off, thanks for reading my blog, I’m not totally sure how you got here, but thanks Well if you are here, you must know who I am and what I’m about – to some extent. Before I get to far into rambling I have to give some credit to Chris McDonald as his website had some heavy influence on mine. Now that that’s out …

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Pre-Race: This was my second half of the year, the first being the half that’s the closer of the DeSoto Triple T (freaking brutal). Anyways I just came off a good cycle of training, capped off by following/sometimes leading Matti around Madison and totally blowing my top. It was the first time in training where I …

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Scatter brained thoughts I finished. It wasn’t as fast and definately not as pretty as I had hoped, but I finished, and was completely satisfied with the result. Placing: 266 OA / 38 AG Times: Swim : 51:53 T1: 6:23 Bike: 5:52:13 T2: 3:55 Run: 5:12:01 Total: 12:06:24 Looking back on the race I know I made some mistakes, …

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Summary: It was a perfect day for a race. I planned to have this race be the first BT workout of my IMWI Peak period. The result, a great race. I took 23 minutes off my time from this race last year. Time: 2:07:49 OA – 9th (After “sanitizing” somebody that got crossed over with a sprint time) AG – 3rd (Although I was …

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It was a pretty “epic” day in Pleasant Prairie. I woke at 3:30 am to pouring rain – my father-in-law said it had rained about 3 inches over night. Mary and I arrived in Pleasant Prairie right around 5:00 am and took the shuttle bus from the parking area to the race site. When we got there transition was close to empty …

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Race: Spirit of Racine Half Ironman Executive Summary – The radio DJs saying that it was a good day to be inside with the AC cranked made me chuckle. OA – 74th AG – 6th (I always finish out of the money) Time: 5:05:30 Pre-Race: I got there at about 5:15 AM. Parking was easy. I got the the transition area and was happy …

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Summary: What is IMOO going to feel like? “Mommy, I’m scared.” OA: 34th AG: 7th Time: 4:41:41 Pre-Race: Being that this was my first half, I was pretty nervous. The wife and I stayed at the Fairfield by the mall in Appleton. Spent the evening before putting a bike computer on her bike, mixing sports drink, and shaving …

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Well the first Tri of the year is over. I was pretty plesed with it. Especially considering I woke up to thunder and lightning here in Milwaukee, and I spent the first 20 minutes of my day sitting at weather.com and watching the radar maps! Anways, the race was very good: Swim: 6:51 – 1st T1: 0:59 Bike: 40:20 – 9th T2: …

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