My Road to Ironman 2025

  Brandywine Falls, Cuyahoga Valley NP     Week 1 of 20 heading to Ironman Florida!  Had a good recovery week where I was able to ride the wave of a good finish time at 70.3 Eagleman, do some hiking with Julie at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and just take a mental and physical break from 17 solid weeks of training. But now it's game-on again.  This time for something that I've never done to date...IRONMAN.  Here we go!!   Weekly Stats : Swim (3x) 2.9 miles (5,100 yards) 1:42:38 Bike (3x) 57.46 miles 3:08:52 Run (3x) 13.94 miles 2:20:02 Strength (2x) 41:59 Yoga (5x) 2:20:02 TOTALS 16 workout sessions 74.3 miles 10:03:28   Training Notes :         I'm back at it! After a very successful 70.3 Eagleman, I had last week "off", where I didn't have any formal training plan.  I did get in a swim, bike, and run, along with a paddle board sunset cruise.  No yoga or strength for the last two weeks with the week ...

            Well, here it is.  The full 70.3 Eagleman race recap. Such a great race, a great venue, and a great finishing time for me!  On the last blog I put out what I said were some scary numbers, and I saw those numbers and pushed past them to finish stronger than what I thought I could.  To start this week's blog, I'm posting the total stats from the last 17 weeks (Feb 10-June 8).  Then hang on, I think I have everything, and I mean everything, covered in the recap!  It's a long read, fair warning!!  But if you want the short version, here are my final times for the 2025 Qatar Airways IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman: Swim-35:47 T1-5:21 Bike-2:41:00 T2-4:37 Run-2:04:58 Final-5:31:40 70.3 Eagleman Total Training Stats : Race Weight:  173 lbs Swim (45x) 54.87 miles (96,631 yards) 33 hours, 26 min, 10 sec Bike (51x) 1,176.5 miles 72 hours, 22 min, 41 sec Run (48x) 281.4 miles 49 hours, 8 min, 17 sec Strength (16x) 6 hours, 40 ...

  Congratulations to Matthew & Macey Curtis!     A few days later than usual, but here is the weekly blog ....      Wow!  That was a week!  Travelled 1,300 miles from Kansas to Delaware, dude time at the beach, rehearsal dinner (we were in charge of that), wedding, and training!  Had to work around all the plans to get my first taper week training in and I can say I did OK with it.  The wedding was great, and such a great day to celebrate Matthew and Macey as they begin their lives together.  So happy for them, but it's nice to be able to breathe some right now.  Here are the weekly stats before I get into the 70.3 Eagleman race preview and predictions…. Weekly Stats : Swim (2x) 2.16 miles (3,804 yards) 1:16:19 Bike (3x) 80.51 miles 4:27:40 Run (3x) 13.68 miles 2:18:05 Yoga (2x) 56:12 TOTALS: 10 workout sessions 96.35 miles 8:58:16  Training Notes :      This was a tough week to get my training ...