A year of preparation and today was finally the day! It is hard to even try to put in day into words, the anticipation, excitement, fear and yes plenty of Gatorade.
I while managed to sleep a fair number of hours, I was restless with anxiety mainly of over sleeping and not the actual race. I awoke 4:15am and gather up all my ...

Well I couldn't possibly imagine begin all that things I've experienced over the past year, here is a (fairly) quick recap of the past year:

August 26th 2006: In final preparations for my second Half-Ironman (Big Kahuna), I crashed my bike quite spectacularly on our team practice Triathlon. After a few hours waiting in the hospital, I found out I'd fractured my arm and would not be able to do my event ...

Vineman is held in Napa and is part of the official Ironman 70.3 Series (Half-Ironman). I had the chance to ride the cycle course a couple times and still fresh in my mind from yesterday. I felt relaxed going into race knowing it was not race, but really just another day of training, albeit with timing chips, competitors and of course photographers.

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It was the 25th Anniversary of the Wildflower Triathlons this year, two days of racing, three events and 7,700 athletes competing, on no average course. Wildflower boasts on of the world's toughest Half-Iron distance course (the long course), along side a Mountain Bike and Olympic Course.

There was one important thing I had to remember going into the race, unlike last year this ...

This was to be my second Half-Ironman Triathlon, back at Lake San Antonio where I completed my ever first Triathlon back in May 2005. The weather was truly amazing, at the same time last year the it was be raining and cold, but this year was different in many ways the and weather was just one factor. At last year's practice weekend, ...

The Treasure Island Triathlon or "the course with an endless number of loops" was my forth Triathlon.

As with every event I was up super early by 6:30am I was at Treasure Island to pick-up my race packet and get my transition area setup. As I was getting set-up I met a number of friends from Team in Training, Treasure Island is one ...

It had been just seven weeks since I hadn't broken my arm, I had tried swimming in the pool this past Monday, to get a feel for the water again and see how the arm felt. After a few laps, in the pool I realized it was pretty painful but I still had six days to go so I thought I'd let it continue ...

My second official Triathlon! Just 7 weeks since Wildflower, the most part I had been taking it easy I hadn't even ridden my bicycle for the first 5 weeks after Wildflower. I had done some running but not much, as for Swimming? Well I remember Lake San Antonio :-)

I woke up ...

This was the day I had been training for since the end of January, I felt well prepared but it was still very daunting, my first Triathlon a Long Course (Half-Ironman) no less.

I arrived down at Lake San Antonio on Friday, so I could get my campsite setup and pick-up my registration packet. One of the things that worrying ...

It was a very grey and cold Saturday morning down at lake San Antonio when started out our very first open water swim. The previous weekend we had test out our wet suits in the swimming pool (75F) so we were indeed very warm in them. However someone had forgot to switch on the heater in lake! This meant the lake was around ...