Category Archives: European Vacation

I’m having internet issues, and can’t seem to upload anything. I even had to get Brian to post this, so if there are any grammatical errors it’s his fault. [This is patently untrue. Anybody who believes such unsubstantiated rubbish should know better than to trust a curly-haired manchild with four names. — Brian] I’ll add […]

It’s nearly 2am in Poland. I’m not even a little bit tired, which is partly because I just finished an eventful day of racing and partly due to the fact that I just finished a real pleasure of a book (Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman), and both these things require due contemplation. It requires the […]

I was going to start off the post with another map of where we are, but the internet here is too slow for me to get Motionbased.com to load. Maybe I’ll add it later if it stops raining. The town is kedzierzyn-kozle. View Larger Map There’s not much here, but it is nice to be […]

Check out a podcast I did with Endurance Planet. It’s the September 5th Podcast.

View Larger Map I’m at an internet cafe in Spreewald, Germany. It’s about 100km south of Berlin. I’m on my way to Poland, which is probably another 500km, and I’m not sure what to expect. I’ve had very little luck with finding internet the past few days, so it may be more from Brian Davis […]

Sunday was surreal. I’m hoping I can portray how the emotions felt, but I’m not sure I’m enough of a poet. I’m also a little tired today after a bit of a celebration last night that included lots of dancing to an American cover band in an Irish pub in the red light district of […]

It has a ring to it, doesn’t it? I don’t have time to do a full race report, but I want to let everyone know that I did it. I’m stoked. Hella stoked. I’ll write more when I can, but I have a ton of ceremonies to get to, so it will have to wait […]

Not much to say. I’ve been relaxing most of the day. Went for a run around the transition area to check it out and hopped on a trainer in the USAT elite room at my hotel. Being around the elites sheds some light on how small my race really is. These guys are here and […]

Ok, so I’m guilty of sidelining the point of my travel. I have written pretty much nothing about how I’m actually feeling as I get ready for this race. Sorry. I’ve actually been pretty nervous. Not about the race, but nervouse about getting nervous. For instance, before I raced at Hy-Vee in June I was […]