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May 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:03 PM

Tips from the Pros: How top athletes stay in shape

I just found a link to the article that Jennifer Donohue recently wrote for Outdoors NW magazine.  She interviewed a mix of elite endurance athletes in the Pacific Northwest (including yours truly) and got their ideas on how to mix training with
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:40 PM

The Soul of Asia

Now that I've filed my Race Report like a good boy, on to the fun stuff.  There were four Americans on the start list in Seoul and as luck would have it they're all guys I'm pretty friendly with -- Ben Collins, Dave Messenheimer and Steve Sexton. 
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Monday, May 26, 2008 5:14 PM

Seoul Survivor

I just got back from a memorable trip to Seoul for yesterday's ITU Asian Cup race.  At least I *think* it was yesterday -- we flew over the International Date Line about 16 hours ago so I'm not really sure what day of the week it is anymore. Let's
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:39 PM

sweet Mazatlan video

Here is a topic that is much more upbeat than injuries, at least depending on your perspective. My friend Kim took this fun video of the swim start at Mazatlan. I like that you can hear a bunch of spectators laughing in the background each time a wave
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:28 PM

life on the edge

Endurance athletes often talk about riding that edge between the most high-quality training that you can handle and getting hurt. I may have pushed it a touch too far last week -- something in the neighborhood of my left knee has been hurting intermittently
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:13 PM

Training update: running is hard

I've been shying away from listing my training details on this blog after reading Greg's comments about how boring these posts tend to be. But I *am* one of those people who is "obsessed with how other triathletes are training" and I
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:14 PM

The Woodstock of Triathlon

Leading up to this Saturday's Avia Wildflower Long Course race I had a bit of bravado about how far my run has come.  I told anyone who would listen that I was hoping to get out there and log a sub-1:20 run split.  I didn't show enough respect
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