Lots of firsts this past weekend at Monterrey 70.3 – my first race of the 2015 season, my first 70.3 in Mexico, and my first race under the direction of Matt Dixon AKA purplepatch. The only first that didn’t come my way was in the race itself where I came in 2nd to Tim Don. […]
Cancún was a decent race for me this past weekend. I got 13th place, eight seconds out of the top ten, 62 off the winner. It was easily my best ITU finish in a long time, but more importantly it was my BEST draft-legal race ever from a technical standpoint. I led the main group
“The Hill” took a year off last year, as did I, but we were both back in Huatulco last weekend for the fourth annual Huatulco ITU World Cup. The repaving crews probably fixed up the hill in the few days before the athletes arrived and I must say the addition of the cobbles at the
En route to another excellent partial-race in Buffalo. On to the next one: I’m gearing up for the Huatulco ITU World Cup this weekend, my first WC since March. A wise man once said: “If one is to race in Mexico one must embrace Mexico…”
Long ago I theorized on Twitter that when an athlete is injured he or she will generally not blog for the duration of the problem. Being a regular reader of many athlete’s blogs I noticed that sometimes a normally routine blogger would go months without an update. What am I supposed to read with my
Here is my race report from Sydney (well, it’s actually just a gloss-over as I don’t feel like reliving that race by typing out a long, drawn out report): I came out of the water near the back of a long line of men and immediately made what turned out to be a bad assumption
It’s been awhile since my last post, but to be honest absolutely NOTHING of note happened to me since I arrived home from Mexico three weeks ago. However, with only four days to go until my last race of the season – Ironman 70.3 World Champs – I figured I should at least get a
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All I can say after racing in this past weekend’s PATCO Championship is thank goodness for ‘test’ events!! The race effectively served as a test for next year’s Pan Am Games (Guadalajara 2011). As major games go Pan Am Games is second only to the Olympics in terms of importance and prestige. As such, I
My last ITU race of the 2010 season is coming up this weekend with the PATCO Pan American Championship in Puerto Vallarta. I’m especially excited to race since it is a preview of next year’s Pan Am Games course, but not so excited to go to the country of Mexico. It could have been worse:
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
