I’m A Lifer
I was thinking the other day about my life as a triathlete. I’ve met a lot of triathletes in my years. Pretty much all of them get into the sport and after a few years stop racing. Maybe it’s because they start having children, maybe it’s because they’ve met all their goals, maybe it’s because ...
Potawatomi 100 Miler Race Report
100 miles. 32,000 feet in elevation change. 39 hours sleep deprivation. 20 creek crossings. Overnight thunderstorm. One EPIC race. The Potawatomi 100 miler takes place at McNaughton Park in the small town of Pekin, IL. This course was the home of the original Death Race. The race later moved to Pitsfield, Vermont in 2009. The ...
Pain is temporary Pride lasts forever
The Culmination Two Hundred and Seventy days seems like an incredibly long amount of time. When injured and attempting to rehab for comeback in the sport you love. Time flies. When you are going 10 MPH for 180 of those days while in the mountains of Afghanistan, the rehab is even more compact. Having a ...
When Does Passion Become an Obsession?
When does passion become an obsession? I routinely wake up at 5:15 in the morning and pause for about 30 seconds and just stare at my alarm clock. I stand there completely immobile, in my pajamas (blue plaid if you must know), and just stare. The majority of the time I’m having an internal ...
Pressing On
The next step in my prep for World’s Toughest Mudder 2013 will be the Potawatomi 100 Mile Ultramarathon in Pekin, IL April 6-7. Familiarity with the distance is one of the most important focus points of my training this time around. Since I have never ran 100 miles in one setting, I need to get ...
A Remedy for Frustration and Uselessness
Today was a bad day. On the scale of bad-day-ness, it rates about an 11. It earns this number because work was insanely frustrating. Not just the mildly annoying kind of frustrating, but bang-my-head-into-the-wall kind of frustrating. I own a marketing and communications company that helps small businesses, and it usually takes A LOT to ...
The Tire Marathon Race Report
Race weeks have always been the most exciting weeks of the year. For the Austin Marathon, it was no different. The Saturday before the race, I interviewed with CBS and FOX about becoming the first athlete in history to complete an entire 26.2 mile marathon with two car tires strapped to my shoulders and potentially adding a new ...
The Tire Marathon
The Austin Marathon is now only 2 weeks away. 2 weeks until I attempt to break the World Record to be the fastest athlete in history to run a full 26.2 mile marathon with 2 car tires strapped to my shoulders. If you haven’t seen the video clip that was featured on the TV show, “The ...
A Change of Pace
Literally for me. My focus this year has shifted from distance and endurance to running a faster pace. Two weeks into the year and two months since my last event and I feel like I am slacking. Not putting in the mileage I was and instead trading it for more pace oriented training sessions. Intervals, ...
The Pigskin Challenge
With the NFL Playoffs going on right now, I thought it would be fun to come up with a workout on a football field. It can be done on a college or high school field, or even a deserted practice facility. This isn’t your everyday workout, but it sure gets the job done! The workout ...
