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Year: 2007
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IM WA: Freakin’ Flies
Here is the SCROUGE of western Australia: These flies are EVERYWHERE. They’re not like house flies that you find over here in the U.S. House flies just fly around and eat rotting stuff. These flies LOVE to come over and land on you. They basically need protein to lay eggs, so they would rather lick…
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IM WA: Registration and Shopping!
Getting down to the expo to register, we see the partially constructed area: Standing in line was weird. The N-R line had nobody in it. Doesn’t anyone have a last name that begins with a letter from N through R? On the other hand, the last names were all piled in D-H, I-M, and S-Z.…
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IM WA: A Dip in Rough Waters
This morning a bunch of us went for a swim and it was truly a rough experience. The rain started coming down and the wind whipped up the water. What’s up with the rain!?!?! Isn’t there a drought in Australia?!?!? We went out but it was hard negotiating the 2-3′ waves. I think I swallowed…
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IM WA: Sydney Qantas Lounge, On the Way to Perth
The flight over from LAX was uneventful. I’m glad I had a whole row to myself and curled up lying down thankfully, instead of sleeping sitting up. As we pulled into Sydney, the clouds were puffy and inviting. Customs was very strict. They made sure there wasn’t any dirt on anything. I thought they would…
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IM WA: Getting that Gaunt Look Again…
I’m less than a week away from Ironman Western Australia (IM WA) and down in LA with all my typical Ironman equipment. I look in the mirror and see my face kind of shrunken in, as if my flesh is disappearing. It always seems to get this way right before a long event like a…
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Graston in the Privacy of My Own Home
The other week I went to my physical therapist and in a sudden moment of inspiration wondered why I couldn’t do Graston at home. I asked him if other patients had pondered this, and also remembered when my other physical therapist once told me that she had done Graston at a race with a butter…
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Graston, ART, and Kinesio Taping Saving My Groin Muscle…and My Late Season Races
After Pac Grove, my left adductor/groin muscle really started to act up. That tightened up and swelled against my hamstring, preventing that from moving freely and thus made that start to tighten up, and then both of those pulled upward on my calf making that all nice and tight as well. For 2 weeks I…
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Optygen: How Interesting!
I heard about Optygen many years ago but didn’t think much of supplements until just recently when I started taking SportLegs. I looked into Optygen and found that the Discovery Channel cycling team uses it so that does give it some legitimacy. Looking into the ingredients, apparently there are herbs from Tibet that increase VO2…
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I2A: Training by Time versus Distance
If you look around training programs, you’ll see that there are two camps for coaches: those that give you training programs by distance, and those that train you by time. If you don’t know the difference, it simply means that some coaches and/or training programs tell you to train by swimming/cycling/running a certain distance per…
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Swimming Cheek to Shoulder
In the last USMS Swimmer magazine, there was an article depicting a swimmer showing perfect streamline, one arm extended, form in the water. She was practicing the extension to pierce the water in as needle-like form as possible, and practicing to maintain this form. One thing they talked about was the fact that her head…
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Shaving for Triathlon
A few years back, I got hooked on the notion of shaving my legs for triathlon. I remember hearing about it and the supposed benefits of shaving my legs. Some of these were: 1. Biking – if you get in a crash and you need to put a bandage on, pulling it off is less…
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I2A: All About Recovery
If you read the books, you’ll find some info on recovery. They talk about the fact that you should take one day off and work out for six out of seven. On that day off, they recommend that you do absolutely nothing. Then they talk about getting rest during the week, like getting enough sleep…
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Discovery Channel Shark Week DVD Set: Yikes!
I was walking through a supermarket last week and saw a boxed set of all the Discovery Channel Shark Week series. Being a lover of these types of documentaries, I bought one thinking it would be cool to learn more about sharks. Last week, I went to get my haircut and while waiting for it,…
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Aid Stations Running Out: Just More Motivation to Get FASTER
At Half Vineman this weekend, it was brutally hot conditions on the run – probably around 95 degrees and that’s not counting the heat radiating off the blacktop. It’s when aid stations become crucial to your ability to survive and race well. You look for each aid station and are glad for a few steps…
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RAAAAGGGEEEE!!
I have a racing buddy with a lot of rage. It’s kind of amusing actually. You can hear him yell at other slow or poor drivers around him when he’s driving. He also yells at himself during races to motivate him to move faster, ie. “C’mon you w**sy, you can go faster! You’re such a…
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