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…
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…
Desert Tri, Lake Cahuilla, La Quinta , CA March 4, 2018 Expo/Packet Pickup/Wetsuit decontamination: After a lunch visit with my wife’s grandparents who live about 30 minutes away from the race site, I got to the expo just in time for the final course talk and wetsuit dunk. By this point in the afternoon, the…
As I described on the about me page, I started this blog at the beginning of my deployment to Afghanistan in 2016. But, by the time I reached the second half of my time there, I was too busy to stop and write about my experience. Now that I have been home for almost a…