It’s All Part of the Game

The conditions couldn’t have been better yesterday, here in Kona for the Ironman World Championships.  Madame Pele, the Goddess of Fire,  granted us with calm seas, minimal winds (save the last stretch along the Queen K!), low temps and overcast skies. There are no complaints to be made about yesterday being too windy or too […]

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Choose.

When this post goes live, I’ll be in the waters of Kailua Bay along with nearly 2,000 other athletes about the race the Ironman of all Ironmans- the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. Today will be the seventh time I’ve had the opportunity of racing here on triathlon’s sacred grounds and I will honor this […]

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Race Day ‘Goodies’? Hardly.

It happens far more often than not.   Whether you’re a veteran runner or completing your first 5k, receiving a ‘goodie bag’  containing items such as those pictured above when registering for the event is all too common. I decided this Sunday to accept the bag simply for purposes of blogging about it and taking […]

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Fantastic Day at Honu

Congratulations to all of the athletes who raced yesterday and Mahalo to the volunteers who produced this year’s Ironman Hawaii 70.3! It’s always an honor to race here and one can never tell what Madame Pele holds in store for us out on her oceans, lava fields and long stretches of endless highway in the […]

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