Reflecting Back on 25 Ironmans: #3 Vineman
My first Ironman, Ironman Canada, was about finishing. The race was an unknown quantity. I was fairly confident that I could finish the event because I had done the proper training but I had no idea what to expect. My second Ironman, Great Floridian Triathlon, was about recapturing the ecstasy of the finish. I wanted the finish line “high” that I felt at Canada. Vineman Full in 1998 was different. I wanted to go faster. At the time, the Vineman Full was still a Hawaii Ironman Qualifier – there were 25 precious slots to be given away to the top athletes in each group. ...
Read MoreSelf-empowerment: Breaking out of the “I Have to” Pattern
“There is only one thing you have to do in life.” - Brad Rex, race announcer Brad Rex, who I jokingly refer to as my “uncle from California,” dabbles in a lot of different things: cycling, rowing, race announcing, sailing, environmental restoration, etc. Since meeting him years ago at the Great Floridian Triathlon where he announced and I raced, we’ve become good friends over the years and now every year I fly him in from Santa Rosa, CA (home of Vineman) to announce the Luray Triathlons. Like many people, I tend to get “stuck in my head,” as...
Read MoreRace Report: V is for Vineman and for Victory!
Another Success So far, 2007 has been an outstanding year for me in triathlon. After setting 8:51 PR at the Quelle Challenge in Roth in June, I just won the Vineman Full in a time of 9:17 – a PR for me on this course. My Vineman Results: Swim 00:59:42.2 T1 00:01:33.6 Bike 04:58:29.7 T2 00:01:27.1 Run 03:16:08.0 Finish 09:17:20.6 Race Report Pre-Race I received a call from Russ Pugh, the Vineman Race Director, a few months ago. Russ asked me, “Are you planning to come back to Vineman this year?” “Absolutely,” I said. “Great, we’d like to induct...
Read MoreRace Report: 2nd Overall at Vineman
“Since 1990,” states the t-shirts from the 2006 Vineman iron-distance event. This was the 17th year of one of the oldest Iron-distance events in the country – a classic. Vineman took place on August 12 in Santa Rosa, California in the heart of California’s wine country – Sonoma County and the Russian River Valley. The race for me began at mile 90 on the bike. Although I swam almost the entire 2.4-mile swim by myself with no one around me to draft off of, I came out of the water in a little more than 58 minutes in about tenth or twelfth pace. There was a pack a few minutes in...
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