About This Blog

So, I've taken the plunge to start writing again. The primary purpose of my blog is to touch on the various aspects of my endurance life. Endurance sports, primarily triathlon but also mountain biking and skiing, have been a passion since way back in my NYC 80 hour work week days. After moving out to Colorado that passion has had a chance to be examined deeper.

My first duathlon took place in Central Park NYC back in 2005. It was a very short race and fit well with the difficulty I had finding a place to regularly train for swimming. I mainly remember the race being difficult, especially the road ride on my mountain bike but also loving the atmosphere of competition and camaraderie. I kept hitting the gym with no real purpose and reading about triathlon.

My wife and I moved to Colorado in the spring of 2007. I quickly put a short charity triathlon on the calendar for September. I trained with what seemed to me to be intensity. My wife and I stayed at friends' house the night before the race up in Boulder. Again I suffered through a road ride on my mountain bike (I hadn't shown myself enough commitment yet to warrant a road bike). But again that permeating feeling of competition wrapped with camaraderie had me feeling more like this tri idea had potential for my obsessive personality.

My training waxed and waned and my wife and I skied most of our first winter in Colorado. It was wonderful! My weight actually began drifting higher during the winter than when we lived in NYC. 226 and struggling with 2.5 mile runs something was about to give!

Spring of 2008 I decided to buckle down and give this a real tri. I signed up for the Buffalo Creek Xterra - Sport Distance in late June 2008 and the Longhorn Ironman 70.3 early October 2008. Through some training more realistically approaching intense I took my weight down 20 and the 40 pounds for these respectively. Both were for me personally huge successes. After Buffalo Creek I decided to jump in the deep end of the pool and signed up for Ironman Coeur d'Alene this past June 2009.

Ironman was incredible and personally very successful to me at an additional 10 pounds lighter (that nets to 50 or so pounds, and yes 2.5 mile runs are quite manageable). I also competed in the Beaver Creek Xterra a month after Ironman. It was probably a bit too early but it was fun even though brutally difficult. Coming soon (before Friday I hope) will be race reports for these 2009 races as they are quite fresh in my mind.

My goal with this blog is to touch on various aspects of training, nutrition, the lifestyle, and challenges. Also I would aim for it to be a place for friends and family to keep up to speed with what is going on in my endurance life.