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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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The Importance of a Good Base

By tjfry | February 25, 2009

Every winter, we all go into our ‘base’ training mode, but based on my experience over the years, very few people actually understand the purpose and specifics of base training. For most, base training is simply unstructured workouts and more often than not, a reason to take it nice and easy when you don’t feel [...]

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