This was something like my 100th race since I got back off the couch in 2000. Not exactly, I’ve lost count, but that’s close enough.I had a fabulous weekend spending time with friends in Wilmington, NC, and sharing time with them and marveling at their…

This past week became a bit of a recovery with a test week. I got in only three trainer rides and no training runs. I was quite tired all week…maybe it’s something in the house because both Tera and Paul are a bit sick, and they’re both really tired and sleeping alot. On Saturday, I did my Physical Fitness Test (PFT) for the Marine Corps. It turned out to be a nice day. With a 1000 start, it

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***DISTANCE***Swim: 1 mileBike: 22.3 milesRun: 10K***RESULTS***ResultsOverall: 2:22:39, 10th female overall, 2nd in age groupSwim: 24:!5Bike: 1:04:52Run: 51:00***PRERACE***Feeling soso going into Reston. I started up hot yogs again. I stopped right b…

Back from Portland on Monday. The family time was great, and the race was fun. Here’s a quick rundown:9 of 30 in age group49 of 168 in men’s olympic2hrs 33minutes overall versus goal of 2:27 (90% of the difference is from the bike, and I missed my goal of 23 minutes on the swim by 34 seconds).Pre-race: went as expected. Up early and got a good transition spot. It’s so nice to have both T1 and T2

***DISTANCE***Swim: .62 milesBike: 17.5 milesRun: 3.3 miles***RESULTS***ResultsOverall: 1:42:03, 13th female overall, 3rd eliteSwim: 16:38Bike: 54:46Run: 27:38***PRERACE***Iron Girl is the main event for Team LUNA Chix DC each season. KC, did another …

International***International DISTANCE***Swim: 1500 meterBike: 25 milesRun: 10K***International RESULTS***Overall: DNFSwim: 24:40Bike: 1:19:21Run:***PRERACE***Sarah, Wally, and I departed from Reston around 2pm on Friday…arrived in Luray around 4pm j…

Mike Long - dad, football coach and age group triathlete.2009 St. Albert Triathlon race report. Actually the race itself was almost secondary to the process leading up to it. With my 40th birthday looming, my weight hitting new highs and my last…

my friend James Warren reports from a fun low key Vancouver Island race.This is really what our sport is all about, at the end of the day the best part about our sport are the people and the races that take place at small venues;long drives to crappy m…

***70.3 DISTANCE***Swim: 1.2 milesBike: 56 milesRun: 13.1 miles***RESULTS***Overall: DNFSwim: 29:02Bike: 2:51:37 Run: Disappointment…sadness. This was my race this year. ***PRERACE***I feel I have spent the majority of the weekend in a truck. Alth…

sqwitter reportgood fun, in friday morning, out saturday night. Roomed with Amac, had a good time, strolling the streets looking for coffee with the young james dean himself….adventures on friday included learning you can’t ride on the Oakland/Sanfra…

well I’m home.and seeing Pippa launch herself at me for a hug when I arrived with “daddy daddy” was priceless. I wished I could just hit rewind over and over again, to see her reaction and to hear Jennie say “ahhhhhhh, Pippa misses daddy”.Life rolls on…

i’m smashed. race report coming. really proud of team canada. from the young guys at their first world cup to Lauren mixing it with the Emma’s and Brent almost chasing down the field.Pippa is getting a crooked playhouse (google it, basically if Jazz de…

This past weekend was my second time racing IMCDA.  After a long and drawn out winter in Calgary, I was able to get a few solid weeks of training under my belt just in time to make me feel quite confident that my body was fit and ready to race.  I spent a good chunk […]

“So that happened”in the movie ’state and main’, Alec Baldwin flips his car when he hits the one pot hole in town. It’s 2am and everyone rushes out into the street to find his car upside down with an unconscious and much younger female passenger. He cr…

Race results from Bismarck are posted. I finished 11 of 17, better than expected actually. Interesting that my bike was relatively good, in the mix with five others who finished the bike in 1:14-1:15 for spot 6-12 on the bike, so I’ll take that as a success. My run came in at 55:06 per the official results, and that is incredibly slow for me. The first 5k was a 21:05, which isn’t bad considering

***Olympic DISTANCE***Swim: 1.5KBike: 40KRun: 10K***RESULTS***ResultsOverall: 2:26:19, 20th female overallSwim: 23:13Bike: 1:09:51 (21.3mph avg) Run: 50:37 (8:10 avg)***PRERACE***Big city races…pluses and minuses. Minus…the logistics pre-race alw…

Race report from this weekend’s race in Hebgen Lake near West Yellowstone. Great time. Race website is www.janetstriathlon.orgLeft work at noon Friday, out of Poky at 1:15. Checked into Yellowstone National Park Madison Campground around 4:30. Camp setup by 5:00. New family truckster Xterra works well for family trips like this. Weather was ok and looking to be fair for race on Saturday. To sleep

I had high hopes for this race. All of them were crushed quickly. I learned alot though!The race became a duathlon because of cold water from the snow that fell a week earlier. Water temps were high 50s or so. I would have preferred to swim because I am a relatively good swimmer. I’m a below-average biker, and an average runner. And the one time I’ve run before I biked, my bike sucked because my

***Reston Sprint DISTANCE***Swim: 400 metersBike: 12 milesRun: 5K ***RESULTS***ResultsOverall: 1:05:14, 2nd female overall (1st podium finish!), 1st in age groupSwim: 5:44 (tied with Julie for 2nd female out of the water)Bike: 32:58 Run: 23:49 ***PRE…

***RESULTS***1-mile (wetsuit): 24:53, 2/73 female, 2/11 30-342-mile (wetsuit): 51:06, 9/80 female, 2/10 30-34***PRERACE***Have not felt like I have had to best feel for the water the last month or so. But always look forward to this swim…do it every…

I love the intervals, long rides with the boys are fun, long runs in the woods are brilliant, swimming is….. meh.I really like the intervals, head to head.first off on friday we had a solid swim practice, it didn’t look like much on paper but ended u…

Leading my preparation for Ironman Coeur D’Alene, I opted to race the Wildflower triathlon as a springboard for developing early season fitness.  I think my strategy worked well - seeing that this race clearly was a prime motivator of getting me out the door to train during our unusually long and snowy winter.  With a […]

My brother Brent, owner of The Bicycle Forest invented the treadmill bike as a tongue in cheek social commentary on how it’s ironic that people spend time in their cars travelling to exercise gyms to run on stationary treadmills.
He’s been getting more interest in his creation than I think he bargained for.

New Orleans 70.3 results. ATHLETE RANK AGE/DIV SWIM BIKE RUN TOTAL1 MCMAHON, BRENT 7/3/1 29/M PRO 00:25:27 02:06:19 01:17:14 03:52:082 MCCORMACK, CHRIS 9/2/2 34/M PRO 00:25:46 02:05:04 01:21:00 …

from Derek;It’s 6:30AM - I’m a bit groggy after the Journey concert last night, but, I guess I owe you a report on the goings on of yesterday… Pretty crazy - we got busted by Macca for wearing Whitfield clothing, we won Peter Reid water bottle schwa…

Short report: 2:35:48, about 6 minutes slower than I had hoped.11:54 mile/min paceAge group: 64/71Overall: 2177/2281Longer report: perfect “no excuses” running weather, cool and clear and windless. The course was a bit hilly for this flatlander. I star…

I. HAD. A. BLAST! I’ve posted tons of photos on Facebook and some on Flickr, q.v. Lots of fun spending time with my good friends Holly, Linae, and Shawn!I’ve done several of the races in years past at Walt Disney World (half plus triathlon plusDopey) a…

http://www.pbase.com/autie/image/109984911click the link and start hitting NEXT (on the far right).A) You’ll learn how to hurt your calf (it’s not that bad but it’s going to take a few days to feel better)B) you’ll laugh at two idiots sprinting like th…