And that means cake, beer, ice cream, brownies, chocolate cake, and Chinese food!! Ok, maybe not so much, but it does mean I have a few weeks to do what I want, rather than what I need. I can work on my six pack, learn how to row with my Mom (if she’ll teach me), […]
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SFO –> SEA
I am back home. I’m not sure why I picked such a late flight out of Oakland, but now it’s midnight and I’m exhausted. The past two days were a jumble of quick hello’s and goodbye’s and I was squeezed paper thin trying to see as many people as possible in my final hours of […]
My Future’s so Dry, I Gotta Wear Socks
Treasure Island Triathlon is now a Duathlon. I have to say, the ecological damage the oil spill is doing means a lot more to me than the fact that I now have to run 6.5km really fast in order to get into a good group on the bike. All the poor birds! A little knowledge […]
Blind Reincarnate
I had a plan for a post of my own for today. Actually, I was hoping Brian could share how exactly he managed to break his wrist and end up owing me $85, but he can’t type (or ride a bike over railroad tracks, apparently). Last night, while my wrist ached with empathy pains, I […]
Getting Home
I wanted to let Aaron’s accomplishments stand at the top of my recent posts for the time it deserves, but our trip home together has been a journey that I have to write about. Sunday afternoon, after celebrating with pros, Brian Fleischmann, Brandon Rakita, Chris Foster, John Dahlz, and Jillian Petersen (Above) Aaron and I […]
Aaron Scheidies’ Dream-Come-True (part 2)
With my last post I introduced Aaron Scheidies and my experiences with him leading up to the World Record attempt at the Toyota US Open Triathlon in Dallas put on by Life Time Fitness (a real mouthful of a name). This post is my race report. Aaron’s race from the perspective of the one person […]
The Legend of Aaron Scheidies (part 1)
In August I was laying on a couch in Tiburon reading the last of the Harry Potter novels when I received an email boasting the subject, “Love Mail†from a name I didn’t recognize, asking if I could “guide him through a triathlonâ€.. It was Aaron Scheidies, and a quick google search told me he […]
World Record
He did it! Aaron Scheidies is officially the first physically disabled athlete to break two hours in an olympic distance triathlon! I’m writing a full report of the weekend, which is going to be long, but there’s no way to describe this experience without giving it the depth it deserves. It wouldn’t be fair to […]
Toyota Dallas US Open Life Time Fitness Triathlon
That’s a mouthful. The name is huge, and so is everything in Texas. I’m too busy to write much this morning, but I wanted to post a link to a video the Associated Press did on Aaron and me, and our attempt to break a world record this weekend. Right now we’re off to meet […]
Jesus Gonzalez: A new perspective on Sport
My first week at Columbia Univeristy I met a guy named Jesus. It took me a while to figure out that “Hey-Zeuss” was spelled with a J and an S, but then I guess those lessons are a big part of why I wanted to live in New York. Jesus was the first person I […]