This is another video from the San Francisco Pan-America Cup. It shows the actual racing! Not much else is going on here in London. We’re training in a 30.3m pool (33.3yards) which has made swim practice rather interesting: “Alright, 4×60.6 on a minute, followed by 4×90.9 on 1:15 right into a 363.6 on 5 minutes…” […]
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Hamburg World Championship Series Race Review
Saturday was my second round of World Championship Series Triathlon. Bolstered with the confidence of someone able to swim ride and run alone for a draft-legal Pan-American Cup win a week earlier, I approached the start line with an undeniably brilliant race plan. I would swim to the front, drive the pace so as to […]
I’m in The New York Times!!
I need a few hours to decompress and think about my race before I do a Hamburg Race Report. If I wrote it right now it would be laced with obscenities and insults that I probably don’t mean. Not that my 41st place is anyone else’s fault. It’s most certainly not, but right now I’m […]
Flying to Hamburg
All I’ve done the past week is travel. I drove to Boulder, then I flew to San Francisco, raced, Flew to Denver, hung out in Boulder another night, drove to Colorado Springs, packed, then flew to Germany. This is not my ideal weekend, but it’s made for a few eye-rolling experiences. I’m of the opinion […]
TriCal TV – San Francisco Triathlon
This is a series of interviews from before and after Saturday’s ITU Pan-America Cup Triathlon courtesy of TriCal TV.
San Francisco Race Report – I WON!!
Not everything went right today, but the important stuff did. The race started right on time, and Brian Fleischmann and I were lined up right along the far left side of the deep water start. I was hoping we would start early since they had us lined up in 14 degree water over two minutes […]
Race Morning – San Francisco Preview
So far my action packed weekend has been going as planned. Meaning, things have gone wrong and I’m dealing with them. The first thing to go wrong was that Southwest charged me $50 for my new homemade bike case that I was hoping to not be charged for. The lady at the counter pulled out […]
The Quicky
I’m starting off on a rapid-fire weekend! Last night I stayed with Rory in Boulder, this morning I swam with Tyler Butterfield at the outdoor 50m pool, and now, after a solid breakfast with Rory and Mojdeh, I’m on the shuttle to Denver International for a quick flight to San Francisco. There, I’ll get a […]
This and That
This weekend I’m racing in San Francisco. It will be my first of three weekends in a row of racing, so I’m viewing this one as a fancy, fast workout. The San Francisco Pan-America Cup is held on Treasure Island, in the middle of the Bay Bridge, and it’s a really unique and technical bike […]
Sleepy Mornings
I’m really tired today, despite having laid in bed for over 10 hours last night. I’m looking forward to a recovery spin and some easy running miles this afternoon. At breakfast this morning everyone else looked tired too, so at least I’m not alone. Here are two pictures from a bbq we had yesterday at […]