Races

Ironman Western Australia Race Report

December 10, 2011

Ironman Western Australia on December 4th was the last ironman of 2011 and, for most, the season finale. For me, this race was something different: it was the first race in a new season, after a fresh start. After two disastrous iron-distance races in Louisville and Cedar Point at the end of a disappointing couple [...]

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11 October 11: Hawaii Ironman 2011

October 12, 2011

Saturday was a fairly painful day for spectating here in Kona. Of course this means that it was also a painful day for racing in our family, but this is a spectating report. Things started off well here in the water for the GCM. Maybe we need to start calling him the GSM. He would [...]

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13 September 11: Rev3 Cedar Point Race Report

September 13, 2011

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of my first Rev3 iron-distance experience at Cedar Point, in Sanduky, Ohio. While I had heard a lot of great things about these events, I have to say that I was still struck by what a great production the Rev3 folks put on out there. Organization-wise, Cedar Point truly [...]

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29 August 11: My 50th Ironman

August 29, 2011

Friends, I am not going to sugarcoat things here. Yesterday,  I crossed an ironman finish line for the 50th time. And while I am indeed proud of this accomplishment, I didn’t come to Louisville just to cross the finish line, or to finish 8th. I came into this race confident that I was capable of [...]

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Ironman Korea Race Report

July 5, 2011

Ironman Korea was the only Asian Ironman that I had yet to experience and was said to have the potential to be the most epic sufferfest of them all. After three years without a WTC race on Jeju Island, Ironman Korea was back this year and thus I could not resist the challenge. We were [...]

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