Athlete update.

My training racing has been going alright (ok the race today was horrible, but through no fault of my own for once, got kicked in the face and had my goggles shatter, a chain come off, and then a crash right in front of my ending the day).

Training is going well, and my run is still improving.

OK, moving on to the real part of this post. One of my athletes, Christiana Glenn, raced at the Boulder 70.3 and placed 2nd in her age group (W18-24), and qualified for the clearwater Half Ironman world championships.

Last weekend she raced at the Outdoor Divas triathlon in boulder and placed 3rd.
This weekend she raced again and placed 3rd in the elite women's race at the Cranberry Lake Olympic triathlon in MA.

Art is working up to his first full Ironman in Madison, WI in a few weeks.



Elite podium at Outdoor Divas. L-R: Christiana Glenn, Nicole Deboom, Jessi Stensland

Here we go!!!

Ok, so i was digging around my computer, facebook, and anywhere else photos might hide, and i found some amusing ones of me from the last year or so. enjoy (or cry).




Bike crash at 35mph a few weeks back. A huge thanks to specialized for keeping my head safe, that would have been ugly without the helmet.


Out of the swim in first place. I went on to win by over 6 minutes.


I shot the entire weekend at the Philadelphia triathlon dressed like this, classy right?! (that is Art Reid, one of my athletes).


Mini Golf!!


About 10 seconds after blowing the hair off the whole left side of my body (yes that was too much lighter fluid).


Shooting at the 2010 Ohio American TTT


Just after coming in 5th overall at Devilman half

Maumee Bay

After making the trek back to ohio for youth nationals (which went very well by the way), I packed up my things and headed north to race the maumee bay olympic triathlon.


Pushing off the dock for finals.


Colleen and myself after the races.

I'd had a few good workouts leading up to the race so I was confident that while it may not be a PR type race things would go smoothly and it would be a fun no pressure race to see where things sat on the short course front.

The day and course promised to be tough: it was HOT and humid out, around 80 when the race started, and already windy. The dead flat course is misleading as the wind and sun can really take their toll if you are not careful.

The swim went amazingly well and as always my Xterra Vendetta helped me along to the fastest swim split of the day. I really cannot say enough good things about this suit.

Out quickly onto the bike in first i took the first few minutes of the race to settle down and then started pushing, knowing the guys behind me would be coming up fast. Somehow I managed to hold off 2nd place until right before the end of the bike. With around 2 miles to go he went by and I did my best to hang on. By the time the run started he had opened up a gap of around 20 seconds and would lead from there until about 1.3 miles into the run. At that point I slowly worked my way past him and then upped the pace to try and open up a gap. after 2 minutes of pushing, I turned back to see it had worked and Jasper had fallen off the pace. I knew he was hurting as he is normally a very strong runner, but the heat was getting worse and it would only be a matter of time before i started feeling it as well.

The run back from the turn around was hot and windy, and very painful, but rather uneventful. I was alone or running back by runners heading out the whole way. By this point it really felt like running next to a blast furnace, everything was cooking.

Rounding the last curve and heading into the finishing shoot I took a quick look at my watch and a huge grin spread over my face. Not only was a I walking away with my first overall win in this distance, but a huge PR of 7 minutes.


A huge thanks to Zoot, Nuun, Xterra, and Gu for all their help.

Everything is finally feeling good after little smokies and then hurting my foot during SRAA nationals with the crew team. Took a full week more than i had planned but the rest was good and now its back at it for the summer months. currently building volume again and will be holding steady around 22-24 hours for the next 6 weeks or so. I'm definitely feeling the upped volume but so far everything feels good, just a bit tired (FINALLY forcing me to get to bed at a reasonable time, so cant be all bad).

Heading back to ohio for Youth Nationals with one of the girls from sacred heart (the crew team I'm coaching right now) on thursday, and will be home at my parents for the week after that getting in hopefully a lot of training and seeing old friends.

In other news, life has been all over the place recently. Some friend issues, trying to find a summer job, and getting a lot busier with training and photography has left me a bit mentally fried, so the time at home should be good.

I think the photo below sums up how i've been feeling recently.

Devilman Half & Little Smokies Half.

Its been a while, but things have been going well. After a bit of a rocky start to the spring training, things are moving along well.

In Febuaury my P3 was stolen and I spent 4 weeks without a bike and trying to get everything sorted out. Everything ended up working out well and I just completed my first two races of the year.

First up was the New Jersey Devilman Half. Held in Cumberland county NJ, this promised to be a FLAT, but windy course, and it lived up to this. The day was hot, windy, and sunny. The bike course that could have produced some very very fast times was one of the slower i have raced this day due to the constant 20-30mph winds.

The race unfolded well though, and i came out of the water a few minutes down on the leaders but quickly made up time through the bike, and came off in 7th place overall and feeling good. I took two bottles of Nuun along with my gels on the bike and this helped keep me feeling fresh and ready to run.

The run was an open out and back through the middle of farm fields, and it was a hot one. I quickly caught up with the two guys ahead of me and then held onto 5th place through to the finish.

A bit of rest after Devilman and then I was headed to Ohio for to work at the American TTT and race the Little Smokies Half.

For those that don't know the course, the bike and run (and it feels like the swim) are uphill more than I care to think about as I type this. Just as a reference point the overall course record for the half set this year is 4:43.

The Swim started off COLD. The water was 58 degrees but my Xterra Vendetta suit kept me warm and fast. The first 100m or so were a bit rocky as i tried to get settled into the water and warm up a bit. After that things just flew by and I had one of the best swims of my life, coming out of the water right at 25 min. Thanks Xterra for helping me set the fastest swim split of the day!!

The bike and run were just one long sufferfest of hill after long hill. The weather was HOT, in the mid 90s, and humid. I took in two bottles of Nuun along with 5 gels, and a bottle of Heed.
The citrus nuun was a huge treat in that weather and helped keep me feeling strong.

I came off the bike near the front and held steady through the run for a 3rd place finish.

In both races I stuck with my zoot Tempos for the run shoe of choice. They have served me very well in the past and I saw no reason to switch. They are a great mix of a light shoe and enough protection for the off road and longer races.

Oh, almost forgot. Due to all of the travel leading up to smokies i was unable to take my bike back to ohio with me and borrowed a bike that i had never ridden before. It is all about the engine!!!

Again a big thank you to Xterra for helping with the fastest swim of the day, Nuun for keeping my going on the bike and ready to run, and Zoot for some awesome shoes.

Philly!!!

Will give a full update soon, but i am living in philly with my younger brother tyler now.
Things are going great training wise, my running is up around 50 miles per week, bike is slowly adding back in and i am back in the pool as of this week.

More to come soon!