Dear Papa, What a week! It's late evening on Sunday, and I'm only now having the time to sit down and write things up. This week was a...

Dear Papa, I'm sitting in my Normatec compression boots, and wow, they are pressing some junk out of my legs right now, I can feel it! I...

Dear Papa,   What a great week this was! I had such good workouts with great company, I'm feeling great and strong, and I'm starting to...

Dear Papa,   This week was my first "build" week - the workouts are getting more intense and longer, and luckily, just in time, the...

Dear Papa,   I'll start with the obvious, the hard, the sad: Yesterday, the Ides of March, marked one year since you passed. It was hard...

Dear Papa,   I'm so sorry I'm late with my post today! Jim's daughter Elisabeth got here last night, and we've been busy ever since, as...

Dear Papa,   While the world is being twisted on its head and shaken like a snow globe, my Ironman training keeps on going. I would be...

Dear Papa,   This week was a recovery week, and that was actually great timing for multiple reasons. Firstly, I had two moles removed...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, Last week of Base 2 - and a recovery week waiting next week, whoohoo! It's still going to be around 9 hours...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, With everything that's happening in the US and the resulting fear and outrage that we're experiencing, I'm...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, I'm back in DC. Last Monday, I spent the morning of my last day in California with my dear friend Chelsea in...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, This week was a breather in terms of training: Finally a recovery week! And the timing for it was perfect. It...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, As I just typed "T-19," I felt a rush of adrenaline that it's now a 1 in front of the number! Can that be...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, Third week in! It was a tougher one on the training planning side: We had a winter storm come through on...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, Happy New Year!! It's 2025, and we're entering the year after your passing. It will be a year full of...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, Christmas week lies behind us. And we're finally on with the Ironman training plan!!! I completed the first...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, I can't believe that today is our last day in Hamburg! Only one more sleep, and we're boarding a plane that...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, We're back in Hamburg! In more than one sense: We're back in Hamburg from DC, and we also just got back to...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, This was the last full off-season week in DC! Only 2 weeks left until I start feet first into my Ironman...

Dear Papa, and dear Reader, Is it really only 26 weeks left until Ironman Hamburg? That is exactly one half year.. Ugh. It's getting...