PE vs. RPE vs. AT vs. LT vs. FTP = HUH?

Acronyms, previously the domain of the military, the medical industry, and large businesses, you either love them or hate them. In today’s high paced world of immediate information overload, where phone calls and emails have been replaced by text messages and 140 character tweets, they’re here to stay. The problem is that sometimes we actually…

Off-Season Training

It’s December, you’ve had a long season of training and racing and your last race was in September. Since then you’ve taken a break, signed up for a couple of races next year, and now you’re wondering what you should be doing with your training this month. As this is a transitional point in the…

Holiday Gift Ideas

With the holidays upon us I thought I’d take a stab at some gift suggestions for the significant triathlete in your life, or to offer suggestions to your significant other to help them out. Being three sport athletes we seem to need a lot of gear and are always looking for some new way to…

The #1 Training Mistake

People ask what’s the one thing I can do to improve my times and I tell them that the number one mistake that most triathletes make is training too hard on easy days and too easy on hard days. Simply put, each workout is designed to train either your aerobic or anaerobic system, so you train…

15 Years and Counting at Wildflower

Note: This race report was previously posted on the SB Tri Club webpage, May ’13 Pre-Race My first Wildflower race was back in 1995, the first year I starting racing long course triathlons; I was the cyclist on a long course relay. Since then I have raced the long course four more times (with a…

Raceday Checklist

The following is a pretty complete list of what you need to have ready to go on race day morning. Start out with: Pre-race clothes, layers, something you can warm up in and peel off to go racing Race shorts, top (jersey or singlet) or one piece suit Sunscreen, especially applied to the neck, shoulders…

Why We Race

We meet some of the most fascinating people at the races. Equipment and physical problems are at their purest in racing. Racing pries us loose from our desks, teaches honesty through humility, and its fun. We like all those things – people, problems, honesty, and fun.  Oh yeah, you can eat like a pig the…

So You Want to be a Triathlete

So you want to be a triathlete, do ya? Do you know what you’re getting yourself into? Let me see if I can describe what you can expect if you’re coming into the sport brand new, i.e., a newbie, or have done a few triathlons with a minimal amount of training or commitment. If you’re…

The Practical Triathlete

So what exactly is a practical triathlete, isn’t that an oxymoron? Can the term practical even be associated with triathlon and triathletes, a sport that requires you to “master” (a loosely used term), three different sports executed back-to-back-to-back? On the surface, I would say no, but let’s look more closely at the word itself, practical.…

Why a blog?

Does the world really need another blogger? Don’t we have enough people with opinions expressing themselves all over the media saturated world we live in already? In a word yes, and I won’t be offended if I don’t have a large following of people hanging on my every word. This blog is for me, to…