I met Kevin Green through Twitter, a social-networking micro-blog that allows you to send updates about what you’re doing/thinking to anyone who cares to “follow” you. Kevin is getting JustFinish.com started, a social network for athletes to receive and give encouragement to competitors in endurance events of all types. It appears to be growing quickly, […]
Jamie and I left with the intention of getting between 35 and 55 miles of riding in each of the three days of the POWWOW North Kettle Morraine Bicycle Tour. We got one day of riding in (56 miles) before I was sidelined with a stomach virus. She was more fortunate, but didn’t want to […]
It’s official. I’m registered and our travel plans are arranged. I’m running in the 2009 Disney World Marathon on January 11th. I’m a little nervous…
I just signed up for Ironman Wisconsin 2009. That is all I’m going to say for now.
26 miles of singletrack later, and I’m a little battered, a little bruised, and full of beer, thanks to our friend and “sponsor” over at the Ale Asylum brewery. Thanks again, Chris.
4 of us crushed some singletrack at the Kettle Morraine State Forest along the Blue Loop of the John Muir trail system, and […]
My first post here was a race report for a 5K in which I ran a 26:22, and two years later, I’m confident in my ability to eventually get down into the 22s, or about 13-minutes faster than my first 5K in ‘05. So while I’m trying to exhibit that I’ve excelled, I don’t intend […]
I’m almost 30, so I expect some form of metabolism deterioration soon. I’m a very “healthy eater” (like we say when our younglings wake us up in middle of the night to slam an 8-oz. bottle of formula, when what we really mean is that they are little “pigs”), meaning I eat a lot, and […]
I added a couple of races to the calendar; the Mighty Wolf Triathlon (my third) near the end of June (Winneconne, WI), and the Lake Country Half Marathon (Oconomowoc, WI) near the end of August. Conflicts kept me from most of the early-to-mid June tris, and I’ve already done, and liked the low-key Mighty Wolf […]
Spirit of the Marathon is a feature film-length documentary that captures the journey of 4 amateur and 2 professional athletes to the 2005 Chicago Marathon. I first found out about this film at least a year ago, maybe two, when I probably clicked on a link on a message board that brought me to the […]
Sorry for being overdramatic with the title, but I strained my patellar tendon today at lunch. I slipped on some ice and instead of letting my small son, who was sleeping in his carrier, take the brunt of the fall, I went down weirdly and prevented the little guy from having his nap disturbed. Impressively, […]