Monthly Archive: June 2010

Jun 07

Race Report: Racing for Recovery Half Ironman

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Well, you had the short version yesterday, time for the full report today. Pre Race We drove over to Monroe on Saturday afternoon so that I could do packet pickup and check out the course a day ahead of time.  When we got to the park, we found out that admission to park cost $6 …

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Jun 06

Holy PR Batman!

More to come soon, but I’ll give you the quick recap. Hotel room had a nuclear emergency preparedness booklet due to the nuclear plant 5 miles away – reassuring :-/ Tornado warning went of at 11:45pm – only got about 5 hours of sleep because of that (I believe that the weather pattern made its …

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Jun 04

Friday Funny and Taper Solutions

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I’ll get to the Friday Funny in a second.  Or, if you are impatient, you can skip my babbling and just scroll down. This past week I found two great ways to deal with a pre-race taper; a good book and power tools.  The good book in question was “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”.  …

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Jun 01

The Triathlon Song

Warning: This may will get stuck in your head.  It starts off slow, but picks up about 60 seconds in. For some information about the song, check out http://www.markwinholtz.com/triathlon/index.cfm.  Unfortunately, it looks like the Download Song and Buy Single links are broken, so you’ll have to make due with the Youtube video.

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