#86 Get some rest sleepy-head

Yes.  Like that. Coming off of the solid, but draining 1/2 Iron weekend in Providence last weekend, I decided that I would follow through with my plan to take this week to freshen up a bit with some recovery and rest and let the training hours drop substantially off.  As a tactic, this is tough because the natural instinct (at least mine) is to worry about how much you’re losing……when the truth is, you’re gaining and gaining big.  My theory […]

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#85 Road rash, Olympic send-offs and INSANITY

Remember Crazy Eddie?  Yeah, like that. This week has been a wild ride.  It shouldn’t have been really…..my training schedule had lightened up some to allow my body to catch up prior to the Amica Ironman 70.3 in Providence, RI we had a short week professionally due to the Independence Day holiday and because the holiday was mid-week and that throws many a schedule off, I was able to plan in an office day……sort of luxurious by my standards. But […]

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#83: Killing the chaos monkey

as it turns out, there is such a thing There are hopeful expectations and then there’s reality.  Sometimes those two things come together at the same time and place, however it’s pretty rare….at least in my life it seems to work out that way.  If life is a slow steady march up the stairs to heaven, I’m pretty sure that the person climbing them just ahead of me is quite the prankster.  A few marbles to step on here or […]

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