Thursday We arrived at our home for the next five days and I wanted to pause for a minute. We had been in the car

We drove straight up the Major Deegan … for four hours. The thruway begins in the Bronx and runs north to the Canadian border. (Wait,

It was time to drive up to Lake Placid New York. (This was like your, what, 400th time doing the race at this location?) Fifth,

I had to figure out if I could get my body ready for another Ironman Triathlon … in the next 14 days. I had come

Speaking of which … there was still one thing left to do before we grabbed my bicycle and headed back to the hotel for a

I even passed a kid who said to his father, “Daddy, I don’t think he is allowed to walk.” The voice in my head said,

The entire marathon course stretched from the finish line in the town square through the park where the bikes were racked down a two way

I rolled across the line that ends the bike course at 4:26 p.m. I had made it with less than four minutes to spare. I

I was now two and a half miles from the end of loop two and I knew that this was two and a half miles

I was at mile 62, enjoying a free return when the worst possible problem kicked in: bi-lateral quad cramps! Both thigh muscles seemed to magically