This weekend I won a half Ironman in Ireland. Yes, you heard correctly. I traveled all the way to Dublin for an Ironman 70.3. It was a long way to go, but after Aaron and I failed to qualify for Rio I took a peak at what races I could do the rest of the […]
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Victory at Garmin Israman 113
Friday I won my second race of 2016, the Garmin Israman 113 Triathlon, with a time of 4:27:12. While I won with a substantial margin over Evert Scheltinga (4:36:38) and his brother Deiderik (4:41:10) of the Netherlands, I can say that without a doubt the course was the most challenging of any triathlon I’ve done. […]
Pietermaritzburg Para-Cycling World Cup
After Ironman 70.3 World Champs I stayed in Germany and spent a solid week riding my bike. I was nervous. After hearing Aaron’s stories from the summer’s world cups in Europe I wasn’t sure how I would handle road racing on a tandem. I was pretty confident in the time trial, but piloting a tandem […]
My Bavarian Vacation
After Zell am See I decided to travel north into Germany. I have been interning with the product management division of SRAM and I was curious to see the Schweinfurt office to get an idea of how things were done differently in Europe and meet some of the people that are on our weekly conference […]
5150 Mont Tremblant Race Report
Sunday was the 5150 Mont Tremblant Triathlon – the first of four professional triathlon races held in Mont Tremblant, Quebec this summer, which culminate in the Ironman 70.3 World Championships on September 7th. I won the race decisively, posting the fastest split for each of the three disciplines and finishing in 1 hour, 55 minutes […]
The Beauty and the Beast
The St Croix 70.3 bike course is known for being one of the hardest courses in triathlon. This segment, which is .75 of the 56 mile bike course is what people here call “The Beastâ€. I recorded it in real time on a training day. I averaged about 6 watts per kilo for this climb […]
Training Trip–St Croix
About a month ago it occurred to me that Abby wouldn’t need to be in Chicago for about 6 weeks. She just finished her second year of medical school and has over a month to study for her Step 1 medical boards. After that she starts rotations and will never have another vacation until she’s […]
Monterrey Ironman 70.3
I wrote a race recap a week ago on my flight home from Mexico, but at the time I was still really confused about my race and I didn’t know how to describe the race without sounding like I was making up excuses. Now that I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out what happened I’ll tell […]
UWC Triathlon a.k.a. my surreal Bahamian weekend
A few times in Triathlon I’ve been invited on trips that seemed too good to be true. Like in 2007 when I received an email from a former Olympian, Victor Plata, asking if I’d like to go an an all expenses paid trip to Brazil in order to race on live Brazilian television and in […]
How to unpack (and pack) a Cervelo P5 for airline travel
My last three races this year were on my dream bike, the new Cervelo P5. I’ve had a bit of a thing for Cervelo since the P3 came out, and the P5 is enough of an advancement in bike technology to make any cycling nerd’s mouth water. My excitement was warranted too, this bike is […]