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Ironman Coeur d’Alene 2012 Race Recap

Approximately 2,310 athletes started this race, but only 2,144 would finish, and Sean Murphy, 44, of Seattle, WA would be pulled from the swim.  He died two days later. I finished 2125 out of 2144 finishers in 16 hours, 51

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Ironman Finisher!

This is really late, but I finished Ironman Coeur d’Alene in 15 hours 55 mins and 33 seconds. This was the best race ever! Great volunteers and awesome spectators. If you’re going to do an Ironman race, I suggest this

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Rohto Ironman 70.3 Florida Recap

Florida 70.3 Review

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RIP Wouter Weylandt

RIP Wouter Weylandt

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Zoot Sports Ultra TT 4.0 Review

Review of Zoot Sports Ultra TT 4.0 Shoes

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More races using ChronoTrack D-Tag

This Sunday, 6 December, I will be participating in the Marathon of the Palm Beaches half marathon.  I recently found out that they will be using the dreaded ChronoTrack D-Tag for race timing.  It’s great for race directors because they

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Presta Valves

Presta change-a

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Ochsner Ironman New Orleans 70.3

Watching the New Orleans Ironman 70.3

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My first marathon

After much anticipation, I finally completed my first marathon!  It was the Walt Disney World Marathon.  This very cool course takes runners and walkers through all four Disney World theme parks.  First Epcot, then the Magic Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom,

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Kurt Kinetic Trainer Review

I wrote this article a while back.  Just an update – if you’re going to have an indoor trainer, be sure to put something under the back wheel if you decide to lube the chain and/or cassette.  Otherwise, you will

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