Category Archives: Random Thoughts

We had a photographer come to London to do a photo shoot with all the US athletes this week. Unfortunately, several weren’t here yet, but that was good for me. I capitalized some pro photo time and had some cool shots taken. I think anyway, I haven’t seen them yet, and all I have now […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It was one of those days. You know, where it’s 100 degrees, and you’re running intervals on a black track that’s so hot your feet start to burn through the soles. You decide to take extra rest after one of the intervals so that you can run to the far end of the soccer fields […]

Well, I’m back in Colorado Springs after two weeks of mostly ups, and a big down to finish off the trip. Like I mentioned in my last blog, I had a lot of fun the first week in Seattle. Then I kicked my training into high gear, put in a solid week of training leading […]

I wrote a race report for Hy-Vee, but then I was sucked into a whirlwind of fun during my visit home to Seattle – and now I can’t find it. The short version is this: I swam really well, missed a $5k bonus out of the water by 5s, rode with 50 or 60 other […]

I’m sitting here in the hotel lobby with Matt Chrabot watching the women race on the internet. They’re physically about a mile away from us, but since it’s 90 degrees outside, neither of us wish to venture out before tomorrow’s race. So far I’ve seen that the swim was a sluggish 19 minutes with some […]