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Race Report: Grand Columbian Half Iron

Grand Columbian Super Triathlon, Grand Coulee, WA – 9/17/2011 The race was under new ownership this year (Trifreaks), so I was interested to see how it compared to last year. Other than a lack of details about the two transition … Continue reading

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Race Report: ChelanMan 2011

ChelanMan, Long Course, Chelan, WA – 7/16/2011 (seeing as I’m doing my next race in < 12 hours, it’s about damn time I get this one written!) My anni-tri-versary! … or something. This is the race where it all started … Continue reading

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Getting Fast, Scorpion, and Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens

With my first half-iron completed, even though it took me forEVer to finish, I’m finally confident that I can survive the distance.  For the first few months of my training leading up to that event, I was hitting new distance … Continue reading

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Race Report: Auburn Triathlon

World’s Toughest Half, Auburn, CA – 05/22/2011 (most of the pictures are by Facchino Photography, but some are by my dad) On race morning, I got up at 4am and had my pre-race meal: turkey deli meat, Safeway deli pasta, … Continue reading

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Half-iron time goal

The second page of this article lays out some math to calculate your Half-iron time goal based on a past Olympic distance performance.  So, based on my results at The Grand Columbian, I should be shooting for: swim: 42:16 bike: … Continue reading

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