Lessons · 9 entries
What we'd tell you over dinner
Every one of these came out of a specific week, race, or mistake, and none of it is a protocol.
- May 10, 2025Race week is a logistics problemThe week around a long-course race is a bike box, a spreadsheet, and a lot of standing in lines.Lesson · 2 min read · race week, travel, full distance, 70.3
- Nov 3, 2024Sleep funds the seasonThe full distance is a season you pay for in sleep, and at this age recovery is the account the training draws on.Lesson · 2 min read · recovery, sleep, full distance, midlife
- Nov 20, 2023Let the calendar be the planFive races, a month apart, 15K to a half marathon. By December the marathon felt like the sixth.Lesson · 2 min read · marathon, calendar, progression, readiness series
- Jul 16, 2023The bike came after the raceJay did his first 70.3 on the bike he already had, and the tri bike showed up a month later, after the race proved he'd keep doing this.Lesson · 2 min read · gear, bike, beginners, money
- Jul 2, 2023The plan is written in pencil2023 had a rib in February, a houseful of family in June, and a work calendar that doesn't know what a taper is.Lesson · 2 min read · injury, family, training, consistency
- Jun 12, 2023Honolulu is not a recovery weekThe course looks great in photos, and the humidity doesn't show up in any of them.Lesson · 2 min read · heat, race week, travel
- May 30, 2023Whose day is itBefore every shared workout one of us is the engine and the other is the governor, and we say which out loud before the first step.Lesson · 2 min read · couples, pacing, training
- Jan 15, 2023Sign up a year out if you have to. Then build the long run.We registered for the marathon two days after Michelle said it out loud, with 8.1 miles as the longest either of us had ever run. The date got us started. The long run is what got us to the finish.Lesson · 2 min read · progression, marathon, beginners
- Aug 2022We couldn't run past nine miles on ketoThree and a half years of keto, then a summer of long runs that fell apart at the same mile. What we changed, and how little it took.Lesson · 2 min read · food, nutrition, marathon, beginners