Desert Tri is known in SoCal as the season kickoff for Triathlon. Notably I haven’t been training like I used to but having competed in this race for the last 5 years it felt wrong not to make the 2.5 hour drive Saturday (5+ hours if I had left Friday) and “participate” in the Aquabike. …
Category: Race Reports
2019 Oceanside Race Report #5
As I sit down to write my 5th Oceanside race report having competed in the 70.3 distance each of the last 5 years I am compelled to mix it up a little. Consistency is perhaps one of my greatest strengths to the extent of monotony as evident by my performances at this venue over the…
2019 Desert Triathlon Race Report
There are so many positive things to think about when considering this past weekend’s race it’s hard to determine what to put down in writing. 1) The benefits of continues effort year after year and satisfaction with incremental progress, 2) the fear of stepping away from regiment for it’s ill effects on that progress yet…
Escape from Alcatraz Race Report
Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon was an unanticipated bonus which resulted from an Age Group win at Escape Huntington Beach earlier this Spring (a qualifying race in the Escape series). I generally take these things very seriously but for a change decided that I would prioritize an appreciation for the experience with this bucket list opportunity,…
Escape Surf City Race Report
This weekends inaugural Escape Surf City triathlon illustrated a unique phenomenon in competition. My only goal for this event was to race uninhibited by limitations in search of a breakthrough performance without fear of blowing up. I wanted to plow through the swim as if it was the 1k, race the bike at 300 watts…
2018 Oceanside Race Report
Years of racing experience has taught me that performance is gauged on 3 key elements, 1) Preparation, 2) Execution and 3) Body Response (simply how your body responds to the day). It’s amazing to me how if you could place yourself in a vacuum, repeating the same workouts, meals, sleep and prerace rituals, you…
2018 Desert Triathlon
Haven’t done a race report in a while. I’ve almost forget how this goes, but I know it involves charts so here’s one – Early season races are something of a wild card. There’s little expectation and much less predictability. Going into this race my T26 workouts had been way off the mark, my biking…
Ironman Arizona 70.3 Race Report
Biggest take away from this past weekend “perhaps you’re stronger than you think”. It’s easy among the monotony of balancing Ironman overload with a full-time job and attempting to maintain a reasonable social life on top of it to question “am I fit” as feelings of fatigue and mental burn out start creeping in. I…
2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championships
It took some distance and time for reflection before being able to put down in writing my feelings from this past weekend at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Chattanooga. I set my sights on this race over a year ago when I missed qualifying at Vineman 70.3 by just 30 seconds, having only 3…
St George Race Report
Ironman can be a bitch, there’s no denying it, and the moment you get cocky is generally the moment it reminds you who’s in charge. Following Oceanside I had this surreal confidence that I was in control of the 70.3 distance and ready for a breakthrough performance, but my undoing came from a lack of…
David Welby 