Tag Archives: marathon

A little Advice For Your First Marathon

By tjfry | December 30, 2010

As the weather begins to get colder, the marathon season shifts into full gear and that means tens of thousands of first time marathoners will be toeing the starting line very soon. One of those first timers is my wife. Almost every year I go down to watch our city’s marthon, the Chevron Houston Marathon, I inevitably [...]

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Ironman Cozumel – The Details

By tjfry | December 5, 2010

Up at 4am. The resort opened breakfast early for us so I took advantage. I trained all summer on hard boiled eggs for breakfast, and they had no eggs. I asked the manager and he went back and made me up some asap! What service! Amazingly calm for the morning of a race. Packed up [...]

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How To Eat That Elephant

By tjfry | December 22, 2009

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was debating whether or not to sign up for Ironman Cozumel. Well, sign up day arrived, I got caught up in the excitement and ended up pulling the trigger. The last time I raced an Ironman was 2006 in Hawaii. I’ve started to get the itch to [...]

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Thoughts on Boston…

By tjfry | May 5, 2009

As some of you may know, I ran in the Boston Marathon this year. It was an event I have wanted to experience, and with the birth of our second child, I thought the training would be more manageable than some of the other events I usually look to. Truth was that even with just [...]

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