Saturday, October 14 – Race Day Surprisingly I actually managed to get some sleep the night before the race. My alarm went off around 3:15am which would give me time to eat breakfast and get things ready to head down to transition around 4:30-5am when it opened. I ate my race day breakfast, drank a…
Category: Training
Kona Recap Part I – Race Week
I’m not really sure where to begin. This entire year has absolutely flown by. It feels like just yesterday that I took my Kona slot at Ironman Maryland in September of 2022. At the time a year felt like so far away. Before I knew it, it was time to get packed up and head…
Ironman Happy Valley 70.3 Race Recap
Friday: June 30 – Travel Day Jonathan and I had the day off so we started our 3+ hour drive to Happy Valley around noon. When we arrived, we parked at Beaver Stadium and headed to athlete’s village to get all checked in. As always, they had the usual selection of Ironman gear and the…
Ironman Maryland 140.6 Race Recap – Part II
Saturday: Race Day! It was an early morning. As I noted at the end of my previous post, I don’t think I slept at all but I was up and ready to go. I had Marie make me coffee while I got myself ready and coated myself in body glide. I ate a bagel with…
Ironman Maryland 140.6 Recap – Part I
Thursday: With this race being on Saturday, we got the car packed and headed to Cambridge to get all checked in on Thursday. This was the last day of athlete checkin so we needed to get there early and pick up our athlete bags. Packing for an Ironman is no joke, lots of gear and…
Ironman Eagleman 70.3 Recap
Friday: Travel to Race Up an at em early to drive to Cambridge Maryland. We had an 11am breakfast scheduled with the Waterfall Racing Team so we hit the road to make sure we got there in time. We met everyone at Blackwater Bakery It was so nice to meet some new triathletes and get…
Cherry Blossom 10 Miler Recap
Better late than never right? I’m finally getting around to writing the recap from the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler. This race normally takes place in April, but due to COVID it was postponed to September. I’m going to keep this short because I’ll be honest I don’t really remember all the details. Friday: On Friday…
REV3 70.3 Race Recap
Racing is BACK folks and it feels so good to finally be able to write my first race recap of 2021! My last big in person race was New Orleans in February 2020 right before COVID hit in March and my last triathlon was a sprint in September 2019 right before moving to Virginia. Let’s…
Fountainhead Park 13.1 Race Recap
I am so excited to be able to finally write another race recap for 2020. This was only my second in-person race of 2020. The last finish line I crossed was back in February for RocknRoll New Orleans. So, when the opportunity came up to race I didn’t hesitate to sign up. The race was…
RnR NOLA…a New PR
OH Hi, it’s me. I’m still here and I know it has been awhile. I’ve finally found some time to write my New Orleans weekend recap from a few weeks ago and my first race of 2020. This was somewhat of a last minute sign up. Marie (my sister) had been signed up and since…
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