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Ironman St George 5-5-12

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What better way to spend cinco de mayo than by swimming, biking and running 14 and half hours in 35+ mph winds and 85 degree heat?  It has been a really long time since I have posted anything on my little blog.  Mainly because I have been training for this race in St George called the Ironman.  Well, about three weeks ago, I finally got around to racing what is surely the goal of triathletes world wide, the Ironman.  Now I will actually have a little more time to... okay, to be honest I really did have time to write in this blog, I have just been putting it off because I just didn't feel like it, but this race is so massive, so epic, so huge, so emotional, so awesome that I felt it deserved to be written about.  So here we go. I have been planning to do this race for well over a year.  I have been wanting to do an Ironman for a very long time but during the spring of 2011, I finally decided that I would do it.  Then during the late summer of 2011, ...
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Provo City Half Marathon 5-7-11

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So here we are, a full two weeks after this race and I am Finally getting around to writing a recap.  I know this has absolutely nothing to do with cycling, but I sometimes run too... As many of you know, I am planning on racing Ironman St George next May... in fact look at the top of this page and you will see a countdown to Ironman St George.  To prepare myself for this event, I decided that running a marathon would be a good thing to do to see how my body could handle such a long distance.  I signed up for the Provo City Marathon , then took a week or two off to let my legs recover from overworking them in January.  I decided to bump down to the half marathon hoping that I could knock out a 1:45:00 smashing my best time of 1:53:18 by over eight minutes.  Then I hired a coach.  Lora has shown me a lot of the ins and outs of training smarter.  One of those things is training at or just below lactate threshold, which is the point when lact...
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SR-167 and SR-226 April 23rd, 2011

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I love to ride my bike... obviously as I have decided to take on all the highways in our state.  Sometimes, life makes this love affair more difficult than I would like it to be.  Saturday before last, I rode SR-167 and SR-226.  I finished my regular work shift (seven days of ten hour graveyard shifts) on Wednesday and was back to work Thursday and Friday morning to cover shifts at Salt Lake Clinic's lab (I actually did do 22 miles on Thursday, cause, ya know... we make time for what we love).  Kathy Jo was planning on running Strider's WRC 30k that Saturday so we decided to stay at the Red Moose Lodge in Eden for the weekend.  I had made plans to volunteer at the Legacy Duathlon that same morning, so I would not be able to see K Jo race.  Friday, I got off work, drove home, packed, drove to Bountiful for my coach's gear sale, went to dinner at wingers, then drove to the hotel arriving around 7:30.  I was exhausted, cold I had to get up early and I...
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Frontrunner Metric Century 4-9-11

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It's been over a week, I suppose I should get around to recapping this ride .  I was not happy when I looked at the forecast for the weekend... high 30s to low 40s with a chance of snow showers... ugh...  My riding buddy, Dave had been contemplating doing this ride for some time, then backed out  when he saw the forecast... I was optimistic.  Friday rolled around and I drove ever so cautiously to the Gateway to pick up my packet while snowflakes the size of half-dollars (remember those) pelted my car.  I said to myself, "if it is like this tomorrow morning, I am NOT riding."  I walked into Jason's deli and chatted with Matt and Robyn, (husband and wife, co-organizers of the ride and fellow churchgoers) while they gave me my packet.  I exited the restaurant and the snow had stopped which gave me hope.  When I got home, I got all of my clothes ready, set them next to my bed and packed a bag with post-ride clothing for the train ride back to SLC....
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