Tag Archives: marathon

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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If You’re Doing An Ironman, Focus on the Run

By tjfry | April 16, 2009

The discussion begins something like this: “I signed up for an Ironman and would like to know, all things being equal, which of the 3 sports will have the most impact on my success and therefore, which sport should I focus more of my attention to?” I know that in our perfect, robot-like, utopian Ironman [...]

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The Boston Marathon

By tjfry | February 20, 2009

It’s the world series for runners and the oldest organized marathon in the history of the world. It, like the Hawiian Ironman is to triathlon, is the measuring stick every non runner will forever measure you by. “Oh you run marathons? Have you ever done the Boston Marathon?” This year with the birth of my [...]

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