Welcome to TRI-CHOTOMY.



I'm just an averge age grouper blogging about Triathlon Training and this complex puzzle of juggling life, having fun and the Tri(als) and Tri(bulations) of "My Reality Show". With the Miami Ironman 70.3 race now in the books I've set a new goal, competing and completing Ironman Louisville 2011 in August. Twice the distance, twice the pain, twice the fun. As a warm up race and I never would have believed hearing myself say this, I'll be doing Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island in July. Once again I'll be sharing these experiences with my great friends Chris and Justin and look forward to the next several months of training and racing with them.

I'll share my training, race and gear experiences and hope you'll comment and even offer advice from your experiences.

Remember,

"Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever".

"Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cliff bar in one hand, Gatorade in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

"You can sleep when you're dead!"




Friday, October 8, 2010

Images

Here are some images of my race, training and goings on while in Southern California.
    

Registration for the Los Angeles Triathlon

















Tech support. These are the pro's technicians and they were giving free tech support.
















For those of you following Hell's Kitchen, here's the entrance to the LA Market where the winner will be head chef at.




 And here's a look inside. I wasn't all that impressed but what do I know about food and restaurants? And no I didn't ask who the head chef was.


















The Staples Center where the LA Kings and LA Lakers play was the finish line for the LA Triathlon


















The HILL. I know it doesn't look like much but this picture doesn't do it justice. I had to run it twice during the race. That hurt.


The Walt Disney Concert Hall. Nice architecture for the run turn around point. Think they were trying to distract us from the pain?














Tuesday's ride up the famous US Highway 101. This was just south of Solana Beach where I raced in July.












I was planning an open water swim on Wednesday. I went to Mission Bay first that's protected from the ocean waves but they'd put up no swimming sign. So I went to La Jolla Cove. This is what I saw. I wasn't about to swim in these waves alone.


I was thinking that this is what I'd rather be doing considering how I felt fighting this cold.













Thursday's ride was a long loop through the canyons. This was on my way to 1800' of elevation gain.













And this was looking back down from where I'd climbed.












My long run at Lake Miramar. It's an 8 km loop around the lake which I did twice.

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