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Drink This

All of us have come to that point in a race where we turn to the aid stations for fluids.  I’d say 99% of the time it’s Gatorade.  You do a silent prayer that the person who mixed it followed the directions.  If not you either get a syrup that makes your head spin or [...]

Training Logs - Which do you prefer?

You might remember that one of my chosen blogs is Steve Stenzel’s “Steve in a Speedo?!“? Well he’s been doing a series called “Does it Work?” reviewing tools that triathletes use on a day-to-day basis. Yesterday’s entry was Steve’s review of four online training logs … Beginner Triathlete, Buckeye Outdoors, Daily Mile, and Training Peaks. [...]

Book Review: Off the Deep End

I found this book while doing Christmas shopping for my Mom.  In our family it seems like a lot of the literature that we pass around has been about running.  Well I wanted to change that.   So I started searching for a swim novel.  Enter the book “Off the deep end” by W. Hodding Carter.

The [...]

Fave Multisport Blogs

We all have our favourite “go to” sites when we’re in need of information – bike setup figures, swim techniques, new interval workouts – and they fill a very important role in the 21st Century athlete’s Big Bag o’Tricks, but what about blogs?

For me, there is a pretty hard set of criteria ANY reading material [...]

Dog in a Hat

Dog in a hat: An American Bike Racer’s Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium

Written by: Joe Parkin

This book is just like the title states, a true story of one mans insight into the world of cycling set in the 1980s.  Joe Parkin gives no BS into what it was like riding [...]