Rock The Bay International Distance Triathlon Official Time: 01:56:17 1000m Swim: 00:16:26 20mi Bike: 00:49:31 10k Run: 00:47:41 Overall: 13th of 187 Military Div: 1st of 6 Rock the Bay was kind of like my Afghanistan deployment, in that it was a good experience overall, but I don’t feel like I ever need to do…
About 20 years ago, when I lived in Fallbrook and drove a Jeep, I used to drive my jeep up to Palomar Mountain and find dirt fire-roads and trails along the way to justify owning a 4×4 in rural Southern California. One time, somewhere amongst the 12 miles of switchbacks rising up over 6000 feet…
Chula Vista Challenge Half, 2018 – Long Course Aquabike (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike) official time: 3:13:23 swim: 34:38 bike: 2:37:40 overall: 5th of 37 1-49 age group: 3rd of 11 A day of firsts… This weekend was supposed to be my first 70.3, half Ironman distance race. Instead, it was my first 1.2-mile…
Solana Beach Triathlon – Sprint Distance July 29, 2018, Solana Beach, California The path to calf strain recovery has been long, longer than I thought it should have been. After a week of carefully running at 8-8:30 pace, I started to think I was back and ready to do the work again. Then on a…
After my last sprint race, I pulled a calf muscle as described in previous posts. I stopped running for about 4 weeks to let it heal but then as I eased back into it, I stepped on some uneven terrain and re-injured the day before spending nearly 25 hours in the sitting position on airplanes…
A couple weeks ago, I had the great honor to travel to Poznan, Poland to attend my brother’s and sister-in-law’s wedding. If a typical European vacation could compare to a 5 year courtship, I did the speed dating version. It was a four day round-trip that included about 50 hours of planes and airports, maybe…
I realize I have some catching up to do on this blog so I’ll try to do it quickly. After the Spring Sprint, I took it fairly easy for a week and then tried to get back into my training but was still pretty sore and tight. On a lunchtime interval run I strained a…
Spring Sprint Triathlon 2018 – Sprint Distance South Shores Park, Mission Bay Spring Sprint is one of the few races I have participated in several times and, although the bike course seems to change every year, I know the course well and can gauge my performance goals and expectations pretty accurately. This year, my training…
Today I got sidetracked from work and started to fill out an application to be an ambassador for a triathlon/sports nutrition company. One of the prompts in the application was “describe your perfect day”. Once I got over how odd a question to base my worthiness of representing the product this was and started to…
I don’t even know what this one stands for. But it was a combined live fire exercise led by Afghan Tactical Air Controllers (ATACs). ATACs are trained by coalition JTACs to be the eyes on the ground and call in air strikes. In this exercise, it was the first time they were tasked with also…