When it comes to fitness and racing, I know from past experience I have the natural tendency to target a relatively significant goal, focus on it, attain it, and then IMMEDIATELY get consumed by all the crap life and work stuff that I have (out of necessity) ignored in order to accomplish said goal. Note that I said “crap” life and work stuff: I am talking about the stuff that takes over just because we let it; it is mostly stuff that probably should go ignored or …

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Finishing time: 11:59:17
Overall Rank: 706 of 2502 starters
Age Group Results: 75 of 326 (34th out of those electing not to wear wetsuits – more on that below)

Slow swim, slower transitions, awesome bike (despite a crash), roadside bike repair, separated shoulder, awesome run, training and nutrition plan worked perfectly, cannot imagine having a better race, but will none the less tempt fate again next year.

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Pre-Race Routine
IMLP pre-race really started Thursday the week prior with …

Wow! what a semester! Sometimes it is hard to write because there is simply nothing to write about; other times it is difficult because there is so much good stuff going on there simply is no time to keep up. Trust that I have been a victim of the latter – it is awesome to be busy! It seems like forever ago, but back at the beginning of November, JT and I along with nine other friends put together a co-ed team to run the Ragnar Relay…

It has obviously been quite a while since my last post – you would think that doing something every day for almost four months would be hard to stop but not for me – I have an extraordinary capacity to quit difficult things. Lots has happened since I last wrote: School finished up, Ana and Joao got married (note: I am still waiting for photos), not  one but two of our over-40 friends found themselves surprisingly pregnant, and Jennifer and I took a fun-but-way-too-short vacation to London …