I haven’t been in a writing mood lately, hence no new updates about training for the duathlon, or how my six hour race went. I actually have half a write-up for the race, I just can’t seem to finish it. I imagine in the next few days I’ll finish it up. I really am okay [...]
Yesterday’s group ride ended up not happening since there was a tremendous storm that blew through and supposedly there was a lot of debris on the route that we were going to take. In addition, we were still under a tornado watch and the sky looked like there would most likely be some thundershowers. I [...]
Well, I survived the race. I didn’t get dropped until just after the beginning of the third lap. The third lap turned out to be the final lap, since apparently there was lightening on part of the course. {Note: sorry Heather- I mislead you in my response to your comment- it was only a three [...]
Alright, so I’m officially registered for my first duathlon. So I really can’t back out of it now. Unfortunately I won’t have my support crew (Zach) with me since he has already preregistered for a stage race the same weekend. I was actually going to do that stage race too, but didn’t preregister because the [...]
I’m going to do a duathlon. Or a few. Road and off-road. Since I have to start somewhere, I’ve chosen the Fredericksburg Off-Road Duathlon (F.O.R.D.) Series race #2 on June 21st. I would have done race #1, but it happened in April, and I’m pretty sure I had a lot of other stuff going in [...]
Two weeks ago I was searching the internet for beginner running plans. I’m pretty fit from cycling, but I have IT band syndrome and very tight hips, so I want to ease into it slowly. A few years ago (before my IT band/hip problem and before being a full time grad-student with a part time [...]
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