Coming clean.

So I have to come clean. I started this blog for a number of reasons, among them, to hold myself accountable for the choices I make, and for the ways in which I choose to spend my time and money. I wanted to make a conscious effort to balance work, training, and family life, and [...]

Pretty freakin’ malarious, if you ask me.

It started out as this sharp, nauseating pain in my lower back, like a horse had just kicked me in the kidneys. Then my stomach would churn, my temperature would climb, and the chills would run the length of my body.   As I broke out into a torrent of sweat, I begged my wife to [...]

2011 race schedule

So I originally started this blog to force myself to think about what completing an Ironman distance triathlon would entail – is it worth the time away from the family? the time away from work/school? the early morning workouts, bitterly cold runs, and perpetually smelling like cholorine? And what do such mentally, physically, and economically [...]

cracks under the surface

So as I gently alluded to in my last post, I had a slight ankle/achilles tendon injury during the Detroit Marathon. Essentially, I feel a *slight* pain in my right ankle, alternating between the achilles, the sides of the ankle, and every once in a while, the arch of my foot. It has gotten less [...]

Controlled Chaos

You talk to any first time parents, and my guess is that they will tell you the same thing: parenting, in the beginning anyway, is at best controlled chaos. You are accustomed to a life in which you have a routine, you have a schedule, you know what has to be done and when.  But [...]