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I join a group of 50 serious Seattle runners at a track near Green Lake last night.   Having done workouts with groups in the past year in S...

My swimming mileage is at all time high - not that I have ever really tracked it before but I am sure the last month is an all time high.  U...

This morning Anthony sends me this article on nutrition to maximize performance and recovery. So the jury is still out on carbohydrate and...

Here is mileage to date for 2008. I can't figure out why I am running faster than last year given my lower mileage. Maybe less cycling?...

Our teammate Motozo left the pool last Thursday with ankle soreness and Keren and Mary and I shouted advice: "R.I.C.E., - rest, ice, co...

My teammate Yoshida-san announces that he hopes to break 17 minutes at last night's monthly running time trial, and I reluctantly stick ...

Only 7 weeks until I compete in the 5,000 meter open swim race in the tumultuous seas off Kamakura.  So I am focusing my energy on preparing...

I have long heard glowing accounts of the cycling route from Lake Sagami to Lake Yamanaka through the mountains west of Tokyo.  Last Saturda...

On Sunday I ran a 1:20:18 half-marathon near Mount Fuji. It was wonderfully cool weather (11 degrees) after the wretched death slog in the ...

Still admiring the coconut prize a week after IM China. It is more impressive than my times. Given the variables in a triathlon it is more...

Wow - I actually won an award in a triathlon - a coconut trophy. I am so pleased - I feel like when I won a blue ribbon at field day in e...

..Not that my bike training for China Ironman is the important thing.  What really matters is the caffeine taper.  And I did it!   I made it...

Here is my triathlong training (weekly hours being the best proxy for triathlon training): Swim - Half dozen solid workouts along with my ea...

I ran surprisingly well in yesterday's Ome Takamizu trail run, covering the hilly 35-kilometer course in 2:59:23 and finishing 13th out ...

After swim squad last night I understand why waterboarding was such an effective form of torture at Guantanamo and has outraged human rights...