Join Coach Patrick for this post-race podcast on the Beach to Battleship iron-distance event, where Darren Freeman walks us through his race and the event itself.
read morePrevious IM background: Florida 2009 13:40:01, Texas 2011 DNF. Joined EN in 2010, but really only utilized the training plan. Never really plugged into the forums or dug through the wiki until this year. First IM with anything close to a race execution plan. Goal for IMAZ: 11:55:00 Arizona Times Swim: 1:16:32 T1: 8:28 Bike: 6:03:12 T2:…
read moreListen to Coach Rich’s chat with Rian about his performance at Arizona2013 on the Endurance Nation Podcast, available in the player at the end of this post! Wow! Where to start? There are many things to say, and the numbers are spinning around in my head. Its another year and another Ironman® down: My third…
read moreListen to Coach Rich’s chat with Al about his performance at Arizona2013 on the Endurance Nation Podcast, available in the player at the end of this post! “Was that you handing me my bag in T2?” Bruce Thompson had just rolled into Rula Bula. Our after party was in full swing, the EN team humming…
read moreFirst of all, I am sold on EN’s training and race strategy. The week of and morning of the race I was more calm than I have been at any other race of any other distance. I felt prepared and ready. having grown up swimming in the ocean in Florida, the waves on race day…
read moreThis was my first Ironman® and prior to the race, I had only raced in sprint distance races. When I registered for Florida in 2012, I knew right away I needed some way to train that would provide structured training plan for me to follow. I found EN via a google search and decided I…
read moreBackground and Training 3rd year of EN , 7th IM w/ 6 finishes and 1 DNF. KQ’ed @ Texas in May. Racing M-50-54AG , 120-122lbs , FTP 230 , Vdot 51. Was having a fantastic season until I broke my clavicle in a bike crash 12 weeks before KONA and 4 weeks before Mont Tremblant…
read moreThe Sirens of Lake Tahoe called many to their shores. This beautiful, ridiculously scenic event was a mere mask to the entrance of the pain cave. I bet many athletes experienced many pains that didn’t have on their lists when they signed up for this race. Leading up to the race, I really was looking…
read moreI wrote this RR for the many people who supported Team ReserveAid and for my EN family. So it is a long (probably boring) documentation of my entire race. Here’s the Executive Summary if you just want the summary: I swam the best I ever have (top 21% vs my previous best top 30%), crushed…
read moreThe days leading up to Lake Placid felt like a roller coaster ride. I experienced the highs, the lows and everything in between. Thankfully everything turned out exactly like I imagined. 12 days before Lake Placid I crashed on my bike. I was going over 40 mph down a mountain road when it happened. I…
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I know I am not the fastest, but I am working toward getting better every day and that is what I’m grateful for.”
~ Joshua Green- Gibsonville, NC
