On July 16, 2011 I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to a peaceful chirping of my cell phone alarm. It was the day of the ChelanMan Half Ironman and over the night I didn’t get much sleep… This was partly due to pre-race jitters and partly due to a fellow racer/friend having car […]
Running
CrossFit Workout “Small”
Sometime it’s cool to run you through a workout that’s ultra hard because hopefully you can get a little bit of what I’m going through durning the workout and bring some of that intensity to your workouts. An especially tough CrossFit workout that I recently did was called “Small”. This workout was anything but small! […]
How To Enjoy A Sunny Day In Seattle… Hiking/Trail Running!
Earlier in the week the weather man predicted that here in Seattle we were going to have some warm days headed our way for the weekend. You should know that in Seattle the weather men and women have the easiest job on the planet because no one ever expects them to be correct. As soon […]
Bringing the Chelan Ironman Training Weekend to an End
I wrote my last blog as I was rolling into Lake Chelan and I’m writing this one as I’m rolling out of Lake Chelan. Don’t worry I’m not driving. This was a fantastic weekend of Ironman training that seems like it ended too soon. As we’re driving away there’s a smoky glaze hovering over the […]
Mountain Loop Highway Trail Running at Lake Twenty Two
I haven’t written in a while because I’ve been working hard on some awesome projects in my internet marketing business and training like a fiend to get my swimming and biking up to par for my next race. I’m competing in the ChelanMan Half Ironman in the middle of July. If you’ve never been to […]
The 2011 North Face Endurance Challenge at Bear Mountain, NY
This event started with a Wednesday night red eye flight from Seattle, WA to Newark, NJ (New York City). As soon as I hit the ground the race began! The actual North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile trail race at Bear Mountain NY didn’t start until Saturday morning, but the race to get to […]