Your Ironman race is done and unless you are trying to set a world record, or a professional or have another Ironman coming up the chances are high that you will not be doing any sort of structured training for a minimum of 3 weeks. You may go out and ride your bike to loosen [...]
The sport of triathlon is filled with video clips, sayings and words of inspiration. ”Find Your Strong,” “We Got This,” “Stops at Never.” But at the end of the day or at the break of dawn when your alarm clock goes off and you have to get yourself moving to get to the pool for [...]
If you’ve ever read the book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (highly suggested if you haven’t), you’ll agree that running to the Tarahumara Tribe is like breathing. For me, while I wouldn’t say that it was ever that easy, it was definitely more enjoyable and easy (er), when I was younger. That damn thing called [...]
Age group draft-legal racing is certainly here to stay! At least that’s how it seems, after a great week in Clermont, where I was able to race draft legal as well as coach 7 Elite athletes ( which included Jarrod Shoemaker winning the US Sprint National Championship and Alicia Kaye getting 10th in the Womes’s [...]
I’m always trying to fit one of the Rev 3 Triathlon series races into my schedule. Unfortunately and due to my personal commitment of qualifying to Kona, it’s quite hard to be able to race them in between scoring points at WTC races. The Rev 3 crew is always super nice and after a disappointing [...]
Last week’s announcement by Ironman and The World Triathlon Corporation of a new SwimSmart Initiative was met with quite a bit of favor both for and against. For example one post on the triathlon forum website Slowtwitch.com, had already received 334 responses to the initial post as of this writing. On the one hand you [...]
Diet can come across as a bad word to many but does it have to be? If you embrace how you eat then does it matter that somebody defines it as a particular diet? I remember when I chose to live a plant-based lifestyle the questions were somewhat ridiculous. They jumped right aboard the how [...]
As it is race week for Ironman Texas, I thought it might be good to discuss heat acclimation and why you should try and do it for your next warm weather race. The projected forecast for The Woodlands, Texas this saturday for Ironman Texas is 89 degrees with a “real feel” of 91°. For most [...]
If you’re just waking up and still haven’t opened Facebook or gone right to a news site (I know, Tridigest is the first thing you look at in the morning…), you probably haven’t seen the latest twist in the Lance Armstrong doping saga. According to a report in the New York Times, Lance is considering [...]
The Boston Marathon Bombings happened. They were real and affected our nation deeply. The media coverage was global as was evidenced by the dozens of satellite news trucks that lined the streets of Boston for days following the event. There were so many story lines that it played out like an in-depth murder mystery drama. [...]
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