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38 days ago
OFF-ROAD Duathlon in Fort Mill, SC - Nov 8th - http://recondoubletrouble.racesonline.com62 days ago
My legs are officially spent. I can’t remember a time that I have been this sore. The trauma I put them through is coming back to haunt me some two days after racing at the XTERRA USA Championships. Normally soreness doesn’t hit me until about three days after my hard workouts. “Delayed onset of muscle soreness” they call it. I call it hell. Let me refresh my coffee cup (moan). Alba and I flew into beautiful Salt Lake City, UT on Thursday. We were both very excited to take the mini-vacation to the mountains. She had never visited the Rocky Mountains and it had been some 18 years since I had a short visit there while in the Air Force. Wow. 18 years. Man, am I getting old. Flying into Salt Lake City We drove about a half-hour north to Ogden and met up with two XTERRA buddies and fellow North Carolinians, Dave Hadden and Justin Stuart. Dave raced the USA Championship race with me while Justin participated in the XTERRA Utah race which was the “Sport” ...
81 days ago
Last week I received my latest “care package” from GU. Inside was two 48-pack boxes of GU goodness. In each 48-pack box was a new flavor. In one, Vanilla Gingerbread GU and in the other, Pineapple Roctane. For those of you that don’t like caffeine in your GU, these flavors are for you as neither contains caffeine. I typically use regular GU (my current favorite being Tri-Berry) for regular training. For races and hard workouts, I’ll use Blueberry Pomegranate Roctane (hence the photo at XTERRA Panther Creek). I was eager to try these new flavors and I have been using them for my workouts over the past week. The best way to describe the Vanilla Gingerbread is to think of Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks. There you have it. It’s an awesome flavor and makes you feel as you’re having a desert! Knowing that Blueberry Pomegranate Roctane is AWESOME, I was a bit skeptical to try out the Pineapple Roctane. Pineapple is one of those flavors that is hard to mimic ...
115 days ago
That sums up the XTERRA Panther Creek race in one sentence. O.K., I may be getting a bit ahead of myself. Let’s back-track a bit. XTERRA Panther Creek Aug 2, 2009 800 meter swim, 16 mile mountain bike, 4.5 mile trail run Andrew and I loaded up the truck and headed for Ashville. We were both pretty stoked about this race as we both knew it was a fun one. Andrew had raced Panther Creek back in 2007 as his first triathlon ever. Even though he missed it last year (due to a conflict), I was lucky enough to race it and have fun doing so (although I had a flat tire during the race). From our discussion of the course leading up to the event, we quickly discovered that the course he had raced in 2007 was quite different from the one I had raced there in 2008. This year, Andrew was looking forward to re-visiting the site of his first triathlon, and I had a vendetta to repay (race without flatting a tire). Another reason that it would be a fun: we would be meeting lots of friends ...
