Month: May 2007

I have found that international Ironmans often don’t end after the race. Sometimes, it is an Ironman quality effort to get home afterwards, and Brazil was no exception. I think[…]

Post-race I am thinking of these things to work on: 1. I’m still having trouble running off the bike for Ironman. I need to examine brick workouts and training for[…]

Yet another sunny but chilly day in Florianopolis, in contrast to race day which was relatively cloudy and a bit drizzly at times. I don’t think I felt warm at[…]

Waking up the morning after Ironman is always a sore affair. You think you’re ok until you swing your legs off the bed and take a step. Ugh! But what[…]

Thanks to Keish who rode and ran with a Garmin Forerunner 305, you can download these two files, upload them to Google Earth and see the course mapped out on[…]

Some pictures of race morning at transition. Look at those bikes! Definitely a lot of dough being spent on fancy bike technology!

Race morning! I gather up the stuff I need for the day and head down to grab the shuttle over to transition. I take a chance and throw my cellphone[…]

Just got back from yet another dinner full of pasta and lots more salt loading. The food has been really good and somehow they figured out how to make bulk[…]

Views of my room, my race stuff almost ready to go: Dropping off the bike and my bags at T1 and T2. This year they have volunteers putting on our[…]