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The Goal is the Journey.: Is there still a bilateral breathing debate for competitive swimming? A review of the literature and an experiment!
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Is there still a bilateral breathing debate for competitive swimming? A review of the literature and an experiment! What does all this library gibberish have to do with bilateral breathing for competitive swimming? Quite a lot, actually. Anytime there is significant disagreement on any topic within a community everyone should. Fall back on reliable evidence over opinion and plain old b.s. Is global warming a thing we should be concerned about? There are multiple hybrid patterns&...
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The Goal is the Journey.: November 2013
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Sunday, November 3, 2013. Pro Debut: Beach 2 Battleship Ironman. Let me give you the nickle tour through the last two seasons to bring everyone up to speed on how I ended up at the start line of B2B as a professional. In 2012 I had two goals. #1 Race well at the ITU Off-Road World Champs. In the spring (I took 21st overall) and #2 win an ironman. I fell a bit short when I took 2nd overall at the inaugural Michigan Titanium. Ironman. For 2013 I wanted to give my best effort at the Best of the U.S. On the ...
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The Goal is the Journey.: January 2015
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Sunday, January 18, 2015. EGO / Sammy's Team and 2015 racing! When you're a competitive runner in training you are constantly in a process of ascending. It's a simple idea, but the more I thought about it, the more profound it became to me. Again to Carthage" John L. Parker. My racing from the last few years has made it clear that I am not getting any faster at the sprint and olympic distances, but I have still been seeing improvement at long course, which will be my focus for 2015! May 3 Lake Run 9 miler.
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The Goal is the Journey.: January 2014
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Thursday, January 30, 2014. Everything you need to know to create your own customized annual training plan! Last week I led a workshop that taught participants how to create their own custom, periodized, annual triathlon training plan (ATP) using the tried and true Sweet method! You can create your plan with a blank calendar and pencil and then transfer to something like Google Calendar or Training Peaks or use this Excel Spreadsheet. 1 Always start with clearly defined goals. 3-5 year long-term goals.
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The Goal is the Journey.: June 2013
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Friday, June 7, 2013. For the next series of Team Evotri. Posts we are to reflect on what we think about while we train. This is somewhat of a tall order since some of my training rides when I am prepping for an ironman can take 6 or more hours! Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that three times fast) is one of the foremost experts on flow. His book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Zoning out, but not flowing at Leon's Tri last weekend. Friday, June 07, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Goal is the Journey.: July 2014
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Friday, July 11, 2014. Hey baby, you wanna see my drag coefficient? A2 Wind Tunnel Visit). I learned long ago to embrace my inner tri geek. The national and international regulations surrounding triathlon are far less restrictive than those imposed by the UCI on professional cycling. You wanna ride a crazy aggressive forward position or wear obnoxious compression socks? Essentially all of our family equity is in the form of bikes and wheels, so I was able to liquidate a few things to fund my tunnel visit!
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The Goal is the Journey.: May 2014
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Biking Faster on a Budget. Into the sport. There are a number of things you can do to reduce the costs associated with cycling while still performing at a high level. The slides below discuss some of my ideas related to: #1 smart bike training and #2 smart equipment upgrades. Biking faster on a budget! From Illinois Wesleyan University. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lexington, Illinois, United States. View my complete profile. EGO pb Sammy's Racing Team.
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The Goal is the Journey.: December 2014
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Thursday, December 11, 2014. Sabbatical Project: History of Cycling in Illinois. Central IL Brothers Frank and Charles Duryea built what most consider to be the first production automobile in the U.S. The got their start building bicycles before applying that knowledge to automobiles. This Duryea car is on display at the new Peoria Riverfront Museum. Schwinn was the most successful and longest-lived of all the early Illinois bicycle manufacturers. Closer to home (for me) is a picture of the Bloomington B...
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The Goal is the Journey.: November 2014
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Sunday, November 2, 2014. Season Retrospective and Beach 2 Battleship Race Report. Best race pic of 2014 at the rainy Lakeside Decatur Tri courtesy of David Fathauer. As a quick review, after 20 years of racing I qualified for my pro card last September and immediately jumped into the Beach 2 Battleship IM. As usual, I set ambitious goals for my first pro season which I wrote about here. So how did my rookie pro year play out? Here's the good, the bad and the ugly:. Tri-Shark Sprint, 4th. Which was withi...
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The Goal is the Journey.: March 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Is there still a bilateral breathing debate for competitive swimming? A review of the literature and an experiment! What does all this library gibberish have to do with bilateral breathing for competitive swimming? Quite a lot, actually. Anytime there is significant disagreement on any topic within a community everyone should. Fall back on reliable evidence over opinion and plain old b.s. Is global warming a thing we should be concerned about? There are multiple hybrid patterns&...
