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 […]
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May 26, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 67 17 0 84 Total to Date 726 82 9 817 distances in km. May 26, 2002 I am sure this is going to sound worse than it actually was – but my PERCEPTION of it at the time was pretty scary. I was on the road […]
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May 25, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 0 0 6 6 Total to Date 659 65 9 733 distances in km. May 25, 2002 Ouch my elbows! I hit a personal record today – I swam 6000 meters, 2 hours, straight out, no stopping (except to pee once). And hey – someone at the […]
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May 24, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 80 0 0 80 Total to Date 659 65 3 727 distances in km. May 24, 2002 Yesterday I remarked at how dramatic it was when I rounded the corner coming down from the mountains of southern Montana into the vast plains of Idaho. That the sudden […]
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May 23, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 150 0 0 150 Total to Date 579 65 3 647 distances in km. May 23, 2002 Idaho! I’m happy to report that Montana has been triathled! Whew! Another long one – my second near century (100 mile bike ride) in a four days. 151 km today […]
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May 22, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 78 20 0 98 Total to Date 429 65 3 497 distances in km. May 22 I experienced a deep and meaningful moment today. I peed on the continental divide while listening to Enya. Half of it will end up in the Pacific and the other half […]
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May 21 Bike Run Swim Total Today 42 15 0 57 Total to Date 351 45 3 399 distances in km. May 21 Ah, the yin and yang of life on the trike – it’s a continual give and take. You get something and you give something back. On the i90 the pretty is gone, […]
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Daily Interlake Article Bike Run Swim Total Today 151 0 0 151 Total to Date 309 30 3 342 distances in km. Triathlete learns training disciplines online By Dave Reese The Daily Inter Lake Greg Kolodziejcyk sits on the recumbent tricycle that he’ll use to pedal from Big Mountain to Provo, Utah, for an Ironman […]
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May 20, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 151 0 0 151 Total to Date 309 30 3 342 distances in km. May 20 Oh my heck! I got started at 8:00 am and rode 15 Miles south from my home for the night in Shelley Lake to the hwy 200 junction. I had two […]
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May 19, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 75 20 0 95 Total to Date 158 30 3 191 distances in km. May 19 Zen and the art of triathlon touring. Gorgeous day, and a HOT one – in the 80’s! The Swan River valley is amazingly pretty – snow covered mountains on both sides […]
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May 18, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 83 10 3 96 Total to Date 83 10 3 93 distances in km. May 18 Ah, the sweet smell of summer! You forget what spring smells like when you are suffering an endless winter like us Calgarians. Great day. Sunshine, and temps into the 80’s today. […]
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May 17, 2002 Bike Run Swim Total Today 0 0 0 0 Total to Date 0 0 0 0 distances in km. May 17 on the road (all most) I’m at my cabin in Whitefish. They have these thin, paper-like things hanging from the branches of trees here in Montana. They’re green and they smell […]
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May 15, 2002 (pre trip) These last few days have been spent either training or packing. I drive to Whitefish on Friday and make the official departure on Saturday morning. It looks like I will NOT be swimming in Whitefish Lake after all. I had a friend check the water temperature for me and it […]
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May 11, 2002 (pre trip) When I was being interviewed by SlowTwitch.com (an online triathlon magazine) on Friday, I was asked the question “what will you do next to top this?”. I realized that this trip is really just a warm up for the original idea – the ‘pure’ triathlon cross country trip. The idea […]
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May 9, 2002 (pre trip) Whew! Another LOOONG day. Big Brick. I started with my FAVORITE 5-hour bike ride this morning – West to Highway 22, then West again on highway 66 into the mountains in Kananaskis country. “Greg, please tell us why you love that ride so. Is it because of the beautiful mountain […]
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May 7, 2002 (pre trip) Currently my weekly training hours are at around 15 to 20 hours which I think is fairly typical for Ironman distance triathlon training. For the two weeks following May 18 while I am ‘triathling’ my way south to Provo, I’ll be putting in 6 to 8 hours per day for […]
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May 6, 2002 (pre trip) Calgary’s record single day snow fall was 48 cm on May 6, 1983 – the exact same day as our record single day snow fall for this year. Each day of poor weather is adding another fleece item to my packing list. Me going: “yikes! I leave in 12 days!” […]
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May 5, 2002 (pre trip) Only 13 more days until I leave and it’s snowing again. One of the great advantages to riding the trike is it’s stability in poor weather. I can ride through gravel, ice, snow, slush and over the odd beer can and never worry about crashing. I flipped it once by […]
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May 3, 2002 (pre trip) I wanted to put a couple of hours on the trike this morning after yesterdays long ride on the Elite, but mother nature had a special treat in store for me this morning. It was F-F-F-F-F-Friggin F-F-F-F-F-F-Cold man. Minus 14 degrees C (7 degrees F) with fresh snow and the […]
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May 2, 2002 (pre trip) Finally a warm day. Well, relatively warm. But still windy as all hell. Calgary might not be the ideal training city. We complain about the weather mostly. In the spring when it isn’t snowing it’s friggin windy. In the summer when it isn’t snowing it’s friggin windy. In the fall […]
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