Ironman USA Coeur d’Alene 2003
Race report:
It was brutal! I talked to the run director and he told me his in-car thermometer showed 97 degrees! Later I heard reports of peak temperatures on the course of 103 degrees!
1574 triathletes entered the water at 7:00 am on Sunday morning and 1345 finished the 2.4 mile swim, 112 [...]
Read More...Ironman Canada 2002!!
Animals and humans have an ability to suppress the memories of horrific and painful events. We inherited this genetic trait from our distant ancestors who’s survival in part depended upon forgetting awful experiences and instead, focusing on the good aspects. Why this tendency improved our chances of survival and, as a result [...]
August 20 update
Well, Ironman Canada is now only 6 days away!!! My training has diminished and will continue to diminish in an effort to allow my body to recover completely from the previous months of stressful Ironman training.
We are planning on leaving Calgary on Wednesday for a leisurely two-day drive to Penticton. Ironman [...]
August 19 update
Question for the day: Greg K – Innovator or just a really big Geek?
Let’s take a look at some of the evidence:
Greg’s Three Wheeled Recumbent Touring Bike
Innovator GK: Clearly Greg is innovating here. Everyone knows that a bike seat is uncomfortable and can cause impotence in males [...]
August 12, 2002 update
The Taliban’s next terrorist attack is UNDERWAY!
I have finally figured it out. No, it’s not any kind of bomb. It’s not going to be any killer virus polluting our water supply or nasty chemical sprayed over our cities. It’s a lot simpler than hijacking a 747, way deadlier than the [...]
August 10, 2002 update
I’ve just finished my most grueling training week of about 25 hours! – the last one before a two week taper, then Ironman Canada on August 25th.
My training base camp for this week has been our cabin in Whitefish, Montana. I’ve cycled up Marias pass in Glassier nation park, around [...]
July 25, 2002 update
Just got back from a fantastic but exhausting 3 day get-away. With both kids away for the week at summer camp, Helen and I took advantage of the freedom and celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary with a bit of a working holiday (a working-out holiday). I hooked up the Bob-Trailer to [...]
July 17, 2002 update
Ironman Canada is only 5 very long (and by that I mean very short) weeks away. I am now deep into the HEAVIEST portion of my training. If this universe’s laws of physics were completely different, and if my training over the last week could be measured by weighing it, I [...]
All that you touch
you change.
All that you change
changes you.
The only lasting truth
is change.
God
is change.
Wondering where you may have heard or read this insightful passage? Was it from the New Testament? The good book of Mathew? Luke? Perhaps some ancient bit of insight from the Koran? The Tibetan book of the dead? [...]
Read More...June 25
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
2.25
0
.75
3
Total to Date
8.75
4.75
3.25
16.75
Training distances in HOURS (if that makes any sense?)
Since training for Ironman Canada started on June 18.
hey, at least it’s not training distances in Pounds or Degrees Kelvin or something
June 25, 2002
It was a fantastic training day today! I swam for 45 minutes in Arbor lake, then enjoyed an invigorating 2 [...]
June 21
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
2
.75
2.75
Total to Date
6.5
3.75
1.5
11.75
Training distances in HOURS (if that makes any sense?)
Since training for Ironman Canada started on June 18.
hey, at least it’s not training distances in Pounds or Degrees Kelvin or something
June 21, 2002
$5125 and growing. Very cool.
My body is turning into a fine-tuned machine, instantly responding to subtle training changes. Like [...]
June 20
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
3
0
0
0
Total to Date
6.5
1.75
.75
9
Training distances in HOURS (if that makes any sense?)
Since training for Ironman Canada started on June 18.
June 20, 2002
$4500 Bucks raised for Diabetes Canada so far!!!!
Only $2500 remaining to reach my goal of $7000 for Team Diabetes Canada.
A HUGE THANKS to my friends, family and companies who have helped [...]
June 8, 2002 Ironman Utah!
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
0
0
0
Total to Date
956
117
13.5
1086.5
distances in km.
It was insane.
How many times in your life have you actually feared for your life?
On Saturday morning, shortly after the cannon blew at 6:55 AM, I was not so subtly reminded of a dream that I had about six months ago. Someone on a sea-doo [...]
June 7, 2002 late edition
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
0
0
0
Total to Date
956
117
13.5
1086.5
distances in km.
June 7 late edition
Let me share a couple of inspirational stories from the carb load dinner last night.
Mark Davis weighed 368 pounds 2 years ago. His dying father gave him an extra large shirt and told him to try it on. Mark tried to put [...]
June 7, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
0
0
0
Total to Date
956
117
13.5
1086.5
distances in km.
June 7, 2002
It’s Friday afternoon and in about 19 hours I will throw myself into muddy Lake Utah with 1999 swim buddies.
You know the feeling in your stomach when you are at 8000 feet and your flight instructor says “Greg – you have control now. I want [...]
June 3, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
0
0
0
Total to Date
956
117
13.5
1086.5
distances in km.
June 3, 2002
Back in Calgary!
I had to buy a flight home on Friday night due to an unavoidable situation at home. Not to worry though, everything looks like it’s going to work out fine. All I can say, is I am lucky to be able to get [...]
May 30, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
0
0
4.5
4.5
Total to Date
956
117
13.5
1086.5
distances in km.
May 30, 2002
Salt Lake City!
What a pretty, pretty town! Ultra clean and sparkly with the mountains towering up all around the city. The people I’ve met are extremely friendly as well – I really like this place.
view from my hotel room
I had a great [...]
May 29, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
97
0
0
97
Total to Date
956
117
9
1082
distances in km.
May 29, 2002
I’m frazzled! What a day!
The Great Salt Lake
Bike touring is a microcosm of life itself. A microcosm on hyperdrive. If you have a problem in life, and you procrastinate with your attempt at resolving the issue, it will eventually become a bigger problem. [...]
May 28, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
76
10
0
86
Total to Date
859
117
9
985
distances in km.
Utah!
I’m so close I can smell it. I really can – I smelled the ocean today in the light breeze from the south. It was the Great Salt Lake which is now directly to the west of me. I have traveled a total of nearly a thousand kilometers [...]
May 27, 2002
Bike
Run
Swim
Total
Today
57
25
0
82
Total to Date
783
107
9
899
distances in km.
“Why are you running across America? Is it for cancer? World peace?”
“No – I just felt like running”
Forest Gump
It was a great day. I spent 3 hours running today in the southern Idaho sunshine logging 25 km in an attempt to correct some of the low [...]
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