sporadic stories from an American pro triathlete

Archive for October, 2008

Survivor Mexico

To get right down to business, and to fill in those of you who watched the live coverage from this past weekend's Huatulco World Cup on what exactly happened to me, I got dropped from the front pack 15K into the bike. To be more specific, I got dropped on the 20% grade climb we had to do each →


World Cups and Local Racing

My second-to-last race of the season is coming up this weekend, and I'm pretty excited! I'm flying down to the middle-of-nowhere Mexico for the last World Cup of 2008. "Middle-of-nowhere" isn't even an exaggeration - the city of Huatulco, Mexico is definitely hard to get to for a major international race. I, for one, will be flying →


I guess I forgot to post this

Elite Development Camp jersey winners! Some 22 athletes attended the five week USA Triathlon Elite Development Program Camp in Colorado Springs in July and August, but only three were lucky enough to win one of the EDP Camp leader's jerseys. Matt Long from Vanderbilt bought some sweet t-shirts from a gift shop or something, and after some discussion the catagories →


I think my brakes are rubbing. Oh wait, no they’re not.

That is what was going through my mind yesterday at Scott Tinley's Adventures. As it turns out my brakes weren't rubbing, I was just having an off day. A really bad horribly awful off day. Even the weather was bad - it varied from a misty rain to a moderate downpour all morning. It was an uncharacteristically wet →