Saturday was a beautiful day for a race. It was warm, but not too warm, and all in all I’m pretty happy with the results. From what I could tell, the courses for the half mile swim, 20K bike, and 5K run were pretty much the same as they were in 2006, when [...]
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Green Lakes TOMORROW
Tomorrow is the sprint tri at Green Lakes State Park. This is the first triathlon I ever did back in 2006. My prediction: despite the years of additional training, my performance will be similar to that of 4 years ago. Factors contributing to this prediction:
1) This is a B-race: a tune-up, check-in, [...]
The Goat
Kicked off the season today with a 10-mile road race, the Mountain Goat in Syracuse. Dan and I signed up for the Ironman 70.3 Syracuse in September, and we used the Goat to motivate us into generating a good running base early in the season.
We had a rather modest goal of beating 90 minutes, [...]
The end of the tri season
Well, if it’s the end of the triathlon season, that means a few things:
1) I get to sleep in later and train lighter to give my body a break until the serious off-season training starts. The problem is that the sleeping in and light workouts started a month ago. Oops.
2) I usually gain [...]
Skinnyman 2009
Yesterday was the big day for The Manlius Formation (the triathlon relay team, not the website). It was an absolutely beautiful day, although a little hot for the run, and we had great fun.
It was a little tight with well over 600 people[1] entering the water, but it went pretty smoothly.
Here we are, all [...]
Should I get in the pool? On the bike? Hit the running trail?
During the not-short drive home from the North Bay tri Dan remarked that he wanted to work on his swimming so he could improve his swim time. I’ve known from doing tri’s for a few years that it’s better to spend training time improving the run or the bike, but I wanted to [...]
John vs. Canada
And Canada won. Big time.
So my friend, Dan, hadn’t been back to his hometown of North Bay, Ontario, since his family left the area about 25 years ago. Recently he discovered that the lakeside town of 50,000 souls hosts a triathlon every year. Our wives were kind enough to let us head [...]
The Manlius Formation rides again!
And swims again!
And runs again!
What, pray tell, am I talking about? Well, before the Manlius Formation was a widely read[1] and critically acclaimed[2] website, it was the name for the geological structure upon which my town sits.
However, before the website, there was the triathlon relay team composed of yours truly on the swim leg, [...]
