Despite the fact that I missed my goal of finishing under 6 hours, I had a really great day today. But the bike was actually 58.5 miles instead of the 56 mile standard for a Ironman 70.3 race and I finished 2 minutes and 55 seconds past 6 hours, I will consider that goal reached. …
Tag: bike
Aug 18
Morning Ride around Keuka Lake
I was on the road by 9:30AM on Saturday after a good nights sleep big bowl of granola with hemp milk. The sun was breaking over the hills behind the lake, and brightening up the west side Keuka Lake. I decided that to change things up this year I was going to climb up the …
Aug 07
Ironman Lake Placid 2012 Video
Here is a pretty cool YouTube video of Ironman Lake Placid I came across…
Aug 04
Stung Again!!!
I noticed some freshly painted ride marks on my bike route on Thursday night, so I did some googling and found the Wheels in the Park ride. They had a 10, 30, & 50 mile rides on Saturday morning. It was perfect since I needed to do a 2:40 ride and it was on my …
Jun 27
Lake Placid Training Camp Day 3-Cycling, Storms and Bears
The sun began shining in the door around 5:30AM waking me up a half hour before the alarm would go off. I tried as hard as I could to get back to sleep for another few minutes but the anxiety in my gut would not allow me to do so. Today was the day that …
May 27
New Sprockets Dieter!
I am a huge Mike Myers and SNL fan, so whenever I can stick references to that in I am all over that. Anyway, before heading on vacation, I decided to change up the crankset on my tri bike to a compact(50T/34T). There are a lot of hills on most of the courses I ride …
May 09
Cycles BiKyle…Bike Buyers Beware!!!
I decided that it was time to upgrade to a new, properly fitted triathlon bike since making the commitment to pursue my dream of completing an Ironman. My current bike, a Cannondale R600, was around 10 years old and I constantly become sore in the neck and shoulders after riding it. If I was going …
Apr 16
Equipment Failures
It has been a week of equipment failures this week. First off, the crankset on my QRoo Tri bike has come loose for the third time now and second my Swimsense watchband starting coming apart. Although this seemed to be a couple big annoyances, it could not happen at a better time and the outcomes …
Nov 13
Bike Shipping-The Unpacking and Reassembly
I finally received my bike back from Miami on Friday. Fed Ex had actually came on Thursday, but I was at work so I had to work from home in order to sign for it. The whole bike shipping process turned out to be more expensive than I originally anticipated, so in order to …
Nov 08
Ironman Miami 70.3 – Race Day–Bike
The Bike(56 miles) I shuffled my bike through the large white inflatable archway with “Bike Out” printed across the top. I headed over to the left side of the mounting area to get on my bike out of the way of others coming out. There were crowds of fans cheering on each side of the …