Tag Archive: open water swim

May 29

Now the Real Training Begins

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This past weekend wrapped up week 12 of IM Mont Tremblant training and I couldn’t have done it in better fashion. With 12 weeks to go until race day, it is time to get my game face on and get ready to tackle Ironman number 2. On Saturday, despite the recovery week, I took the …

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Jun 27

WIBA Day 1 & 2

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After an amazing weekend, I am finally home from a long weekend in Madison for the Wisconsin Ironman Brick Adventure (WIBA).  It was a ton of fun and a great learning experience.  There is so much that I want to document and remember that I am going to break this up into two posts.  Apologies …

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May 30

Race Report: 100 Miles of Nowhere

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Well, it is done.  My first 100 Miles of Nowhere is in the books.  And while the final results are not yet it in, it appears I took first overall in the Grand Rapids Division which makes this my first ever overall win.  I am anticipating that people will start stopping me on the street …

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Jul 14

Swimming Naked

Got your attention?  Good.  Ok, I really didn’t swim naked today.  But I did do my first open water swim sans wetsuit which felt like swimming naked.  I also had the opportunity to meet up with a blog buddy for the swim and subsequent bike ride. Rob and I met at 8th Street Park this …

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Jul 06

4th of July Weekend in Pictures

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I’m simply too lazy to do a full blog post about the weekend, so I figured I would just load it up with pictures and captions.  A pictures is worth a 1,000 words, so 20 or so pictures would be 20,000 words.  If only that rule were applicable back when I had to write papers …

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