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Year: 2015

Post Ironman 70.3 Augusta Blues

Post Ironman 70.3 Augusta Blues

I’ve been trying to write this post, but struggling to.  It’s been a month since Augusta 70.3 and I took sometime to process my thoughts.  After a 2 week “being proud” period when I rejoiced in my accomplishment and nothing else, I went back and looked at my race data and race experience. I can say that I have no regrets about my race performance. I had a great day and I put in what I felt was my best…

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Tri The Parks: A Time to Celebrate

Tri The Parks: A Time to Celebrate

Tri The Parks is a triathlon race series put on by Blue Sky Sports team in Georgia. It is a great series and they assign points to every racer in each race and at the end of it all give out the series awards. This year, Tri the Parks featured a triathlon series, duathlon series, aquabike series and one aquathlon and they offered multi race discounts to make it enticing for athletes to enter a whole bunch of them. I raced…

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Benefits of Trail Running

Benefits of Trail Running

It’s been a quiet time in FauxRunner land. No just because of the post-race blues, but because of so many things that are happening or that need to happen and thoughts and inaction. In short, things are draining and overwhelming and I don’t have anything on my plate. But – no training plans also means that I can run whenever and whereever I want! This weekend, I suddenly chose to go up the trails and actually grabbed my trail shoes…

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What Next? The Off Season

What Next? The Off Season

The long awaited #LongRoadToAugusta finally reached its destination last weekend and that brings the question – what road will I take next? After months and months of training (since July of last year actually), with weekends being occupied by either long runs or long bikes, with lots of early morning swim or runs, with some late night trainer rides, with a LOT of emotional upheaval, with every day’s focus dictated by training peaks, this is new territory for me. I…

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Ironman 70.3 Augusta Race Report #LongRoadToAugusta

Ironman 70.3 Augusta Race Report #LongRoadToAugusta

Sometime mid last year after I finished a Sprint Tri on 8 days of “training”, I had a crazy idea. So crazy that I immediately banished it, but so crazy that I couldn’t help keep thinking about it. I wanted to do  Ironman 70.3 Augusta. There was a small catch though – along with being a slow swimmer and runner, I didn’t know how to ride! And hence began the #LongRoadToAugusta These past 15 months, I’ve trained, I’ve learnt, I’ve had breakthroughs,…

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Gary’s Augusta Half Ironman Race Report

Gary’s Augusta Half Ironman Race Report

This is Gary’s Race Report for Ironman 70.3 Augusta. He was nice enough to let me host the report when I asked around for race reports to compile in my Augusta Half Ironman section of the blog.   This was to be my second attempt at the 70.3 triathlon distance; 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and 13.1 mile run. My first 70.3 was the Rev 3 Anderson, SC last fall, which was a great introduction to the distance, and…

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#LongRoadToAugusta – What Will Race Day Bring

#LongRoadToAugusta – What Will Race Day Bring

Ever since the day I even thought about signing up for Ironman 70.3 Augusta, I knew it would be a long and hard road. Hence the #LongRoadToAugusta. But it was almost 10 months to the day that I signed up. I knew I would stumble, I knew I would have my firsts, I knew I would break down some days, I knew I would come out tougher some days, I knew I would love it all, I knew I would…

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