Hy-vee Highlights
Well the Hy-vee triathlon weekend is officially over and things went pretty well for me! The race was epic so I'm going to write a full race report later. In the mean time here are a few highlights from the weekend: 1) 1:08 That was the time gap from me to the race winner Simon Whitfield - 1 minute 8 →
One Weekend, Two Races
I'm currently sitting in West Des Moines, Iowa, awaiting a weekend full of big races. The first is the Hy-vee Elite Cup on Saturday. It is actually a World Cup in terms of ranking points but it gets the special designation of "Elite Cup" because it has such a huge prize purse ($1,000,000). With $200,000 to the →
Austin Pan Am Cup…Second Place!
I'm excited to report I placed second in yesterday's Austin Pan American Cup! Despite a poor swim, I was able to stay in contention on the bike and battled it out for the win with New Zealand's Callum Millward on the run. It came down to a drag race style sprint in the last 100 meters and he →
Pics From Pan Am Champs
Swim start. Exiting the swim about 20 seconds off the lead. Just crossed the finish line for ninth. Photos courtesy Rocky Chen.
Mexico – Next Right… and Pan Am Champs
It was about a week ago today that I finally piled all of my earthly belongings into my car and departed the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center. It was definitely a bittersweet departure - I will miss training in Chula for sure. On the other hand it was starting to get ridiculously hot there (I think it capped →
St. Anthony’s v. 4.0
This past weekend I raced St. Anthony's for the fourth year in a row. St. A's is definitely my favorite race - it's one of the biggest triathlons in the world, the field is always stacked, the course is flat and fast, and it's right in my home state! It's also a great way to evaluate fitness in →
Carlsbad 5000 – What Makes It So Fast?
The Carlsbad 5000 claims to be the "world's fastest 5K," and having raced this 5K road race yesterday I can say that it is very fast. I ran a PR of 15:12, more than a half minute faster than my previous best road time of 15:51. During the race I think I also set a PR in every →
Australia
The Mooloolaba World Cup was last weekend. I crashed out. I had a decent swim, a so-so first transition, and then crashed out on the first lap of the bike. It's tough traveling halfway across the world and coming back with nothing, but overall I'm pretty happy about the way things turned out after crashing: I'm →
Ecuador…So Weird!
"Why are you here? That's so weird!"This statement pretty much sums up the whole experience in Playas, Ecuador last weekend. I suppose if you are a middle-aged Ecuadorian visiting your favorite vacation destination with your family, driving around the Playas downtown area in your Ford Pinto-esque vehicle (with a passenger to seat belt ratio easily exceeding 1.0), and →
Kind of a big deal…in Ecuador
This was in the Ecuadorian newspaper "El Universo" on Monday. That's right - kind of a big deal.As expected, the Playas Pan Am Cup was an adventure of a race as only South America can offer. I'll have a rambling race report up ASAP!
The New Ride
2008 Orbea Orca w/ full Dura-Ace 7900. Sweet!Florida Bicycle Sports hooked me up with my new bike for the 2009 season a few weeks ago. My first impression is that it is freakin' awesome! I'm packing up right now to go race it in Ecuador - first race on the new ride!
San Fran Race Report
Or, How I Ended Up in Kenya 45 Hours Later As I mentioned previously the San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island was a pretty good race for me. Yes, my run wasn't nearly as it dominant as it has been throughout the year, and I know my ninth place finish might not look like anything special. However, I managed →
San Fran
I just got home from the last race of the season - the San Francisco Continental Cup - and I have to say it was probably the most solid performance of my entire race season! Speaking of the 2008 season, it's been a long one. I started on January 6th in Chile and have done 16 races since, →
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 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 →
Portland Recap
Here's a little recap of what happened at the US Elite National Championship last week in Portland, OR. After the Pacific Grove Triathlon (the weekend prior to the race in Portland) I stayed out on the west coast and hung out with Steve and Ethan in Davis, California. After arriving in Portland I drove up to Vancouver, Washington (right across the →
Pro Nats
The US Elite National Championship was this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. The age-group National Championship was held on the same day (random fact - the age group and elite national championships have not been held in conjunction with each other since 1992 in Cleveland, Ohio!). Congrats to Ethan Brown on his 2nd straight U23 national title and an awesome →
A Few Pics
Here are a few pics from Pac Grove:The swim course - lots of kelp to get caught in!
Next Up – Pac Grove
The Pacific Grove Triathlon is this weekend. This race is definitely one of the more unique races I have done. The swim is known as the "kelp crawl" because there actually isn't much swimming involved. It's more of a struggle to not get tangled in the kelp as you slog your way through 1500 meters in the →
Chicago
The Chicago Triathlon was last weekend. I hadn't been to Chicago since I was very young so I was excited to go back (normally the Chicago airport is just a layover en route to another destination so it was odd to actually leave the airport in a car). Also exciting was my new TT bike (a brand new →
Tisza in Pictures
Manny, me, and Steve before the swim start. The top 20 athletes got called to the stage at the party on Sunday night. This is the women's top 20. The crowd. Matt Chrabot and me on stage. The men's podium. Results - Tiszaujvaros World Cup ITU Photo Gallery - Tiszaujvaros World Cup
Tisza
Live Coverage Times - Tiszaujvaros World Cup
Hamburg Race Report
The Hamburg World Cup is an awesome race. Run with German precision, the race is usually quite a spectacle for the people of Hamburg (Hamburgers!). Last year an estimated 300,000 people came out to watch the World Champs and it wasn't much different at this year's race where I managed to finish 18th. With that I am →
