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Of course it is a bit disconcerting when on the first few steps of running a marathon your legs buckle beneath you and you almost fall on yo...

"Enjoy your Ironman experience."  That is the most frequent advice I heard from the Ironman pros when they are asked to give advi...

At a certain core, primal level I am simply scared of open water.  There is something ominous about the ocean and each triathlon I have don...

  The afternoon before my first ironman effort finds me surprisingly relaxed.  Maybe it is the fact that the weather forecast anticipates w...

So with some sixty-odd hours to go until the Ironman, my mind is not focused on race goals, tactics, nutrition, packing or last second work...

The monkey is on my back again.   I am hitting the coffee and hitting it hard - a short Peet's Lost Sumatra Roast in the morning,  a la...

The financial cost of doing triathlons has become a crushing burden for me.  My entry fees alone for the New Zealand and Japan Ironman appr...

The greater Tokyo area is not known for its swimming beaches.  Apparently Japan's post-war industrial push combined with decades of ram...

OK with eight days to go until Ironman Japan I need to at least start to think a bit about the logistics, strategy and and taper. 1. Logi...

On Monday a friend asked about getting together on May 26th.  "OK - I think that works," I immediately replied.   "Oh wait a ...

  For a Chinese city of some 5.3 million people, I found that it surprisingly easy and pleasant to run in Nanjing. Yesterday I covered over...

  As largish cities in China go, Dalian is a particularly pleasant place to run.   I charted a 25-kilometer course that loops around the pe...

After listening to so much strategizing and analysis among all the real marathoners at Tokyo's Namban Rengo running club, it dawned on ...

I managed to somehow, just barely, outrun a one-legged man at the Inagi Ekiden ( running relay race ) in western Tokyo today. I suppose I...

Finding reasonably convenient and pleasant places to ride in Tokyo continues to be one of the more critical concerns in my life.  Of course...