Last year I posted my friend Peggy McDowell-Cramer’s race report from Kona. I was pretty sure last year that nobody could every do more ironman races than she had done (without being completely insane like Chet the Jet), but this year she did another full Ironman in New Zealand, and went to Vancouver for the […]
Category Archives: Races
Wake Me Up When September Ends
I still haven’t written a race recap for the Portland ITU Pan-America Cup. I may just not do it. Here’s the short version, which is really the only version I have to tell: I swam hard. I thought I was doing really well until I realized that the group I was leading on the right […]
Kelowna Race Report
Sunday I raced in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It was unusually hot before the race, which had me a little nervous, but as a storm approached the heat dissipated a bit, so by the time we started it was below 90 degrees. The swim was a beach start into Okanagan Lake. (as a geographic aside, […]
6000 Words about a Weekend in the Bay
Pictures are worth way more than words. Left: Greg Remaly, Me, and Chris Lieto in front of the Base Nutrition Green Machine after the Mt. Diablo Time Trial. Right: Greg Remaly spends most of his time away from home talking to Courtenay Brown. Left: I took the BART back to San Francisco after […]
Escape From Alcatraz
Sunday morning I awoke to the smell of fresh oatmeal. My host family, the Rosens, were up before me, and Anna (a wonderful cook) had boiled up a fresh batch of my prerace meal. After getting used to cold oatmeal before races, this was awesome, and it set my mood for the day. It would […]
Intestine Stew for the Seoul
Our weekend in Seoul was great, and a large part of that was due to the mistakes we made. By we I’m referring to the American athletes, Steve Sexton, Dave Massenheimer Chris Tremonte and myself – though the mistakes can all be traced back to me alone. After the race we headed off to a […]
Seoul Asia Cup – Saturday
After getting in to Seoul Friday night and feasting at the "Broadway Diner" (right below the "Yankz and Mettz Grill") on imitation American food, consisting of butered Atlantic Salmon (quite far from the Atlantic), mussels, sushi, sashimi, kimchi, bread, meat balls, korean bbq ribs, rice, fried rice, azuki bean rice, rice rolled in bamboo shoots […]
Beyond Expectation
Here’s the big advantage of buying a bike from a small company that sells directly and keeps tabs on all the bikes it sells. Beyond Fabrications is awesome, and this story makes that obvious. Last Thursday I proved that triathletes should never contest a sprint. Especially not at a Thursday night crit, when there’s nothing […]
Pan-Am Champs
The results say I was DQed, Disqualified, and yet somehow went a 1:54. The time doesn’t make sense to me because I never actually finished. Here’s the rundown. 8am – Wake up, eat breakfast, read my book, watch some CNN (only english channel. 9:30am – notice the surf is quite a bit larger than the […]
First Annual Nautica South Beach Triathlon Presented by Toyota
For the entire week leading up to the April 13th race the wind blew through Miami’s South Beach with just enough force to create white caps and choppy surf. I also felt really flat the whole week. Yet at some point during the eight hours I was sleeping Saturday night, all that changed. The water […]