This past weekend, I competed in Ironman 70.3 Miami. Most of you probably know the results already, I finished as the 2nd overall Age-grouper (2nd to a guy who is also competing professional next season), and had my best Ironman placing ever as 9th overall including the professional field. There were 50 pros on the start list so I beat approximately 80% of the pro field. If you look only at the performance outcome you may think it was a flawlessly executed race, however I hav

This Sunday October 22nd, I'll be closing out my 2017 season at Ironman 70.3 Miami (hopefully - looking like may be thunderstorms in the morning). This will be my last race as an age-grouper, and should be a pretty interesting one. So far in 2017, I've already accomplished what I set out to achieve, which was to earn my pro-card and win the AG ITU World Championships in Penticton, BC. Even though I've already earned this status, I still feel I have something to prove this sea

For the final segment of this mini-workout series I thought instead of sharing another workout I'd do just a quick little post on strategies that I use to get through tough difficult workout (and sometimes help pass the time on the not so tough ones). 1) First and foremost, I've mentioned this many times, there needs to be a goal that your working towards, and the workouts need to be specific to helping you accomplish your goal. I've talked about this many times now in previo

This weeks workout is a great one for those with races that have a long hill climb in them, or anyone looking to improve their ability to keep pushing hard on tired legs. Many people have a tendency that once they crest the top of a big long hill, they almost stop pedalling and think that now the work is done, and its time to recovery - wrong. When I was a competitive distance runner, I always said the best time to attack is not on the hill, but at the top of the hill for thi