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First and most importantly, the Challenge Athlete Foundation (CAF) is a God-sent to many disabled people, and throughout my life I’ll do my best to support them. During Sunday’s event I was struck by the courage of so many people:… Read More »Update: CAF tri

In La Jolla about to go to bed and feeling a bit anxious. Tomorrow I’ll do my first 1/2 Ironman distance tri. Some competitive pressure is gone because this is not a race, rather it’s a fundraiser to raise money… Read More »CAF tri … first 1/2 Ironman distance

Last weekend I wrote about being tired of training. In a sense I hit another brick wall after my last brick practice. Running after riding is more difficult than I imagined. Then last Wednesday I met Scout Basset, a physically… Read More »In the beginning there was Bob Babbitt

A few weeks back I mentioned meeting a cyclist who finished the IMAZ three times, and he said the #1 way to finish the race is to successfully play the Mind Game. Since then the mind game has been on… Read More »Winning the mind game

Today I ran for an hour, and at mile two I wanted to stop. Then I thought of Gail Devers, the fastest woman in the world, and how she almost had her feet amputated from Graves Disease. Then I thought… Read More »Break through with running