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So I raced last weekend again. An Oly in Sag Harbor. Just a training race on my build back to Clearwater. So I posted a 65 mile ride on saturday followed by an hour run. More about the ride later...

The race was now the 4th of the year for me in the rain. I must say, I've gotten quite used to it at this point. I was lucky that my rack wasn't in the middle of a huge 2 inch puddle, like some of the others.

The swim seemed extra slow, even for me. Don't know if it was current or the fact that sig… Continue

So I raced Timberman in Gilford, NH this past weekend. They ran a sprint on Saturday (8/16) and a HIM on Sun (8/17), part of the 70.3 series.

This was only 4 weeks out from IMLP, so I had downward adjusted my expectations. I read something recently from Gale Bernhardt that estimated 3-5 recovery days for each hour of triathlon racing. So a month out from IMLP put me on the recovery bubble really. I already had a Clearwater spot, so this was really a bit of test of how quick I can recover.

The… Continue

I salute all those that raced in the memorable conditions of IMLP 2008. One for the scrap book for sure. The weather worked way better for me than EM, take rain & "cold" over humid heat any day. Heard lots of guys say that. Times at the top of my AG also showed it.

I had a slightly disappointing swim time and missed my goal time by a few minutes. It was hard to stay on the few pairs of happy feet I found since they kept tracking off to the left and right, dragging me into traffic. I was rig… Continue

Wholly crap it was hot at EM. The benefit of relatively calm wind day for the bike was way offset by heat & humidity. It seemed to me that wind conditions & a course that should have translated into a bike PR some how got overwritten by a hot & nasty day. And it only got worse once out of T2. There are tons of trees along much of the course, they just provide exactly 0 shade when the sun is directly overhead. Ice down the jersey just wasn't doing it either. But even after a disappoin… Continue