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Race Report: World Triathlon Championships (Swim)
In Spain I made friends with the sea. Faced with 3 kilometers of salty blue expanse and an island to circumnavigate, I had little choice but to conciliate. Months of ruminations, weeks of mental work and days of close observation of conditions did the job of finding a way forward. At the blast of the…
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Race Report: TOUGHMAN USAT Long Course National Championships (2022)
One thing is for certain, @toughmantri lives up to its name. I don’t know of a harder 70.3. It’s the hardest race I’ve ever done, and this year was next level hard. We started with a weird 2-mile run, which was hard to know what to do with. I went with the flow and tried to pretend…
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Sitting out Worlds
Can’t exactly call it FOMO when you opt out. Not sure what this feeling is. But Team USA is competing at the World Triathlon Championships in Slovakia this weekend, right alongside the Collins Cup. What an amazing opportunity to both represent your country and also be up close watching the greatest pro triathletes in the…
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Race Report: Colchester Triathlon
Colchester is where I got my start in triathlon, in 2018. I made lots of mistakes. I wore gloves, socks, a mirror; I had never raced in open water before, I got a pinch flat and running the 3 miles in less than 30 minutes was an accomplishment. I was hooked.I planned to return in…
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Race Report: Leaf Peepers Half Marathon
The 2021 Leaf Peepers Half Marathon came just a week after my 70.3, so I had very few expectations and didn’t really know what would happen. Great circumstances for my mental state, if nothing else. This race is always fun, and I was fully prepared to have it.The hardest part of any half, I find, is…
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Race Report: TOUGHMAN USAT Long Course National Championships
TOUGHMAN – USAT Long Course National Championship:🏊🏻♂️: an honest course with nowhere to hide. Straight out and back, the rising sun on one side. I was with the leaders most of the way. 6th out of the water in my wave with a 1:37 pace. Happy with that. 🚴🏻♂️: basically controlled chaos. Punchy course with…
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Race Report: Race to the Top of Vermont
Race to the Top of Vermont — an epic charge up Vermont’s highest mountain in support of The Catamount Trail. It was a wet day, with a downpour just before our wave started, but it passed and I only got a bit sprinkled on during the ride. Made for some rougher conditions on the road, but…
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Race Report: Ticonderoga Triathlon Festival
You are either in it for the long game, or for the short. Rarely can you succeed in both. This was my lesson from the Ticonderoga Triathlon Festival.I was in for the Double Ti, a sprint distance followed by an Olympic distance. Combined times made up the overall results in the Double. Seemed like an…
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Race Report: Shelburne Half Marathon
The Shelburne Half Marathon was a battle. On coach’s request I ran it “blind,” no live splits data from my watch. Running by feel, throwing caution to the wind. I’m still processing whether that worked to my benefit or not. The jury is out. One water station on the entire route, and all they had…
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IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells – La Quinta – Race Recap
* A video version of this race recap can be found on my YouTube channel here. A triathlon is a game of contradiction. You spend hours, weeks, months training for something that lasts moments of your life. Improve at one sport by mastering three. Train slower to race faster. Race slower to race faster. Do…
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Musselman 70.3 – Race Report
My first 70.3 race was a life experience that feels almost too complex to sum up in mere words. I’ve been trying to find my way to describing all of the different things it was for over two months now, and I haven’t gotten very far. I’m not sure is something that put into words…
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Race Report: Greater Nashua Sprint Triathlon
My first triathlon of 2019 was a sprint distance race held in southern New Hampshire, called the Greater Nashua Sprint Triathlon. I settled on this race in particular after several months of research, trying to find a race that was both within driving distance and lined up with my training schedule for my 70.3 race.…
