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The Red Headed, Step Brick

By tjfry | March 19, 2012

If you’re new to this sport, you will soon hear the term “brick” if you haven’t already. If you’ve been doing this sport for a while you probably hear it on a regular basis. The term “brick” refers to the training of two sports sports back to back without any rest. The term was created [...]

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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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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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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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