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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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#84: Are we there yet? NO.

This was my down week, the 1/2 step back before my final training push.  With Ironman US Championships a mere 40 days away, I’m basically gearing up for 4 weeks of high intensity AND high volume (overload) work, prior to 2 weeks of “peaking” in order to have everything come together just at the right moment.  With that focus, I used the extra time not required for training this week (somewhere around 3-5 hours) to take a mental inventory of […]

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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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