The Journey

What is in a name?
Tom, Rick, Shelly...just names.  But I would guess that as soon as you read those names something popped into your head.  An image of someone you know.  Maybe it is a good image...maybe it was a person who bullied you...
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Signing up for the big race
We have all done it.  For some reason we feel drawn to do it.  Maybe we see others do it and think "I can do that too" or perhaps it just intrigues us down in our core.   When I was...
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Packing Your Ironman Special Needs Bags
Maybe, like myself, you are a grey beard in the sport of triathlon and you often get asked about what to put in your Ironman Special Needs Bags (SNBs).  Perhaps, like myself, you get sucked into threads about SNBs in...
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Managing your special needs.

“First ask yourself: ‘what is the worst that can happen?’ Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” – Dale Carnegie

 

When I read that quote it made me think about race day planning for Ironman, especially Special Needs Bags (SNBs).  They are, after all, called “special needs” not “regularly planned items” bags.  With that in mind, how do we best utilize them for race day?

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Jamming Traffic
Good Enough, Isn’t! Today’s society has most of us living in a busy (if not frenetic) cycle of life where family, job, household responsibilities, social media, friends…seem to pull at us and eat away at our 24 hours.  Being an...
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