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Archive for August, 2008

Pleasant Prairie Triathlon – 2008

If there is one thing I learned in this race it is the value of consistent training. I had a goal of 1:20 on this sprint coming off my last race, but work and life in general did not allow that to happen. Training for this race began as planned… but with the increased success [...]

August 17th, 2008
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Spirit of Racine – First Triathlon

The long awaited first tri… all the training, all the reading and research and youtube videos on techniques… the day was here. 2 days before the race I loaded approx 800 grams of carbs after reading various carb loading techniques. Oatmeal, pasta, fruit, wheat bagels, energy bars, gatorade / cytomax, rinse and repeat until I could [...]

August 3rd, 2008
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Early Races of 2008

I started the year out right by running the Disney 5k with my friends Mike and Nick Ewbank in Orlando, which we turned into an awesome vacation with the whole Ewbank family and we watched Mike run the marathon on Sunday. Was absolutely a fun race through Disney’s animal kingdom, nice and early in the [...]

August 3rd, 2008
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Races of 2007

Well lets start this thing off with some race memories of 2007; Chicago’s Turkey Trot was my first chip timed event ever in my life and it was an 8k race hosted by Capri Events. It was a chilly 29 degrees, barely snowing though nothing sticking on the ground. A very comfortable environment for my [...]

August 2nd, 2008
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Greetings and Salutations

First Blog Post ever. Though having set up WordPress for Jess before and dealing with various hacking attempts to destroy memories, this is the first time I am actually using a blog of any sort. Took about 20 mins to create the subdomain, install another instance of wordpress and redirect etc. Played with Themes for [...]

August 2nd, 2008
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