Lay everything you need out in plain sight before the race. You don’t want to be fumbling through a bag searching for your shoes during the race.
Buy a quick drying tri outfit and wear it when you swim. You don’t need your cool bike jersey. This isn’t some fashion show.
For god’s sake, [...]

Was browsing through Amazon.com and came across what is probably the single greatest comic collection of all time: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. I guess I am getting old, but I remember reading C & H religiously every day of the week for a lot of years. I don’t think I ever grew [...]

A friend asked me today how to get started in triathlon, so I thought I would share what I did for my first triathlon. As a bit of a background, I have been a runner for about 9 years, compeleting the NYC Marathon in 1997 (at a decent time of 3:46). I had [...]

I went for a professional bike fitting today, intrigued by the thought of “free speed”. What an eye opener the process was. Don’t know about you, but I am a bit of a techie and I like to get things right, so when I heard Ray Woodford speak at one of our local [...]

Since putting up my website and the triathlon section, I have had people ask me what my Total Immersion (TI) experience has been, so I thought I would write up my thoughts on the subject.
Like most people, I thought I knew how to swim. Seriously, I come from Minnesota, you know, the land of [...]

Taking time off is crucial to Triathlon Success