Finally here in Kona. Its been a long road. Can’t believe I actually made it. Now all I have to do is get ready and race. Ran into the Stanford Tennis Team in the Oahu airport during my layover (pouring rain and dark skies). Chatted up one dude. I seem to think I’m sort of still in their age range — I forget I’m 20 years older than these kids. He was cool, but probably wondering why this old man...
Just got an e-mail on Facebook from Bill Stapelton — Lance Armstrong’s long-time uber-agent — wishing me good luck at Ultraman. Could there possibly be anything cooler than that?!?! Alot of people know of Bill as Lance’s long-time agent — he has been with him from the very beginning (since 1995) — but what most people don’t know is that Bill was a member of the 1988 Olympic Team in swimming (200 Individual Medley), a US Champion, an NCAA All-American at...
Only one more day before I leave for Hawaii and so many damn things I have to take care of before I take off. Just trying not to get too overwhelmed, but I feel like my head is going to explode. What is amazing is that I am so obsessed with the logisitics of pulling this crazy thing off that I haven’t even had time to think about the actual race (maybe that’s a good thing my wife says). In...
Finally, a time to heal. Well I’m now less than 2 weeks out from Ultraman. Still training, but the load has lifted and now its mostly shorter stuff with some Zone 3 interval work. Its taken my body a full week to even begin to feel slightly normal after that last Race Simulation, and I can still feel the deep fatigue of all the training, especially when I try any speed / top end work. But come race day, I...
2 weeks out — time to taper. Finally. Last weekend I completed my final “Race Simulation” (the third consecutive torture session in three weeks), designed to approximate race conditions. It was beyond brutal, essentially training dawn to dusk three days straight on the heels of three exhausting weeks of punishment, completing 95% of the Ultraman distance. I almost didn’t make it, but somehow I survived. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger….so they say. And this time I took it...
Just a load of gratitude for all the amazing e-mails I have received over the last day since I sent out my request for donations to the the Maximum Hope Foundation in support of my Ultraman quest. I am overwhelmed by all the support and growing groundswell of immediate contributions to this worthy cause. Its amazing to me that when I am in service to something greater and bigger and more important than myself, it all becomes worth it. Yes,...
My buddy Drew sent me this rockin’ pic. It doesn’t get any better.
Well I’m less than a month away. One more excruciating weekend of training ahead, then a big taper as I approach the final weeks of preparation for Ultraman. Which brings me to a vital and essential component of my participation in this years event — raising funds on behalf of the Maximum Hope Foundation. For anyone who knows me personally or who has followed this blog, you know that I have taken my commitment to preparing for this event very...
Sorry I’ve been off radar for a bit, but I honestly just haven’t had a single free moment to update the blog. Its pretty much been training, working, training, kids, training, sleeping, training, eating, training, wife, training, training…..Almost there — just trying to keep the unbalanced parts of my life from completely falling apart in the meantime……Just need to hang tough for one last final hard week push… I keep thinking my work is done. That I should be tapering...
Such a badass…At the Ironman World Championships in Kona a few weeks back, Goggins parachuted into the bay for the swim start, then did the full IM, by far his shortest race of the year, I’m sure. Click HERE for a great interview with Goggins on slowtwitch.com
