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Year: 2007

  • IM Brazil: Pictures 5-25-07 Friday

    IM Brazil: Pictures 5-25-07 Friday

    The Jurere Beach Hotel in the morning at sunrise: The EST course tour with Ken Glah narrating: Me about to head out for a bike ride. Do I look like something out of X-files?:

  • IM Brazil: Pictures 5-24-07 Thursday

    IM Brazil: Pictures 5-24-07 Thursday

    A few today, definitely more tomorrow: Standing in line for 30 freakin minutes Check out my new IM Brazil 07 Kit! EST bike mechanics at work. My rejiggered bike – love it!

  • IM Brazil: Arrival in Florianopolis

    IM Brazil: Arrival in Florianopolis

    Today I rolled into Florianopolis this morning around 9am, after yet another crazy check-in line adventure. I swear, every business, every person in Brazil or working for a Brazilian company moves in slow motion. There is no urgency or sense of customer service anywhere in the place. Even at the line to pick up our…

  • IM Brazil: The Workout at Miami Airport

    IM Brazil: The Workout at Miami Airport

    I reach Miami airport around 3pm local time. Negotiating the airport and the airline became a test of my Ironman endurance. The first phase of my workout here at the airport was getting off the plane and proceeding to hike approximately 1 mile from one end of the airport from Concourse D to the other…

  • IM Brazil: Tapering with Little Tweaks

    IM Brazil: Tapering with Little Tweaks

    I’m one week away from the race and have been tapering for about 2 weeks now. I was elated to have done a mega triple brick 3 weeks ago and felt really ready for this race. But then, I got this weird pain around my right ankle bone, because of which I stopped running for…

  • On Selecting Sports Medicine Help

    On Selecting Sports Medicine Help

    Selecting medical help is a tough thing. You’d expect that all physical therapists and doctors are the same and that they can all deal with our Ironman training problems. Boy was I wrong. Not All Practictioners Are Created Equal!!! If any statement could summarize everything, that would be it. What I’ve discovered is that pretty…

  • Ironman Brazil: Coming Down to the Wire

    Ironman Brazil: Coming Down to the Wire

    As I come down to the wire for Ironman Brazil, I once again reflect on my training and what I’ve learned over these last few months preparing for the event. Some notables: 1. I noted a definite need for strength building in my training, so I dramatically raised the number of hilly courses that I…

  • Constant Propulsion Swim Method

    Constant Propulsion Swim Method

    A while back I took a Total Immersion Course. I thought it was really good but it only gave me half the solution to swimming fast, which was to maintain a good body position while in the water to ensure minimal slowdown due to drag. The other half had to do with stroking. You’d think…

  • Recovery Time Lengthened

    Recovery Time Lengthened

    This year training for Ironman Brazil has been really interesting from a recovery perspective. My high intensity climbing sessions on Old La Honda along with my jump to long rides with 3 hour interval sessions in the middle have really taxed my system more than I have experienced in the past. Chalk it up to…

  • Aero Helmets: Louis Garneau Rocket

    Aero Helmets: Louis Garneau Rocket

    Yesterday I took my new Louis Garneau Rocket aero helmet out for my long ride to test it out. I didn’t know what to expect but if the wind tunnel tests were true, then I should be using something which would have a dramatic effect on my cycling aerodynamic efficiency. Wow what a noticeable difference.…

  • Got My Aero Helmet!

    Got My Aero Helmet!

    I’m STOKED. My Louis Garneau Rocket aero helmet arrived today. Putting me on made me feel like a ROCKET. OK OK. I suck as a triathlete. Maybe you can argue that I’m not worthy of wearing an aero helmet. But after reading this article about Bicycle Aerodynamics and an article in Bicycling Magazine, September 2006,…

  • Call Me Mr. Freeze

    Call Me Mr. Freeze

    Aaaah….an ice bath after a hard run today works wonders. But how to get into that bathtub of freezing water? Here is Dave’s patented method of successfully performing an ice bath: 1. Prepare. No, not just mentally, but get 2 bags of 7lbs. of ice from 7-Eleven, a towel, something to drink if you want,…

  • Reebok Run Easy Ad Campaign

    Reebok Run Easy Ad Campaign

    I saw some ads for Reebok on the sides of bus stops. They say: Why Hit the Wall? It Hurts. Run Easy. Run Easy?!?!? I must say that Reebok just lost me as a customer. To me this Run Easy messaging means: Don’t train so hard. Don’t bother. It ain’t worth it. In fact don’t…

  • Bubbles

    Bubbles

    These last few weeks swimming I’ve been thinking about bubbles. Not bubble bath mind you, but the bubbles I create while swimming. If you read about bubble formation in swimming books, some of them say that it’s the byproduct of wasted energy. Energy that could have gone into propulsion gets wasted in creating turbulence in…

  • Floyd Landis at M2 Revolution 3-30-07

    Floyd Landis at M2 Revolution 3-30-07

    My coach, M2, just opened a new facility in San Francisco called M2 Revolution Cycling and Motion Studio at the corner of Bush and Van Ness. For his grand opening celebration, he got Floyd Landis to come and ride with us during a workout. They put Floyd’s watts up on a video screen at the…

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