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Finding my Footing

It's been quite a couple of months. To be honest, I thought I'd be posting to my blog and sharing more with you guys, but honestly...

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Getting Sunburned instead of "Frostbite": Frostbite TT Race Recap

And we're off! March has arrived, and so has spring, apparently, in good old Colorado (at least in FoCo).

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Finding that Spark

Motivation is a funny thing. It is the driver in most of our work, in life, school or sport, helping us along to achieve our goals.

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Swimming Sundays

Despite the broad shoulders, strong upper back muscles, and flipper-like feet of swimmers, swimming is a technique-heavy sport.

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Hindsight is 20-20: 2019 Year in Review

But if there's one thing I'll never do again that's doing something just for the sake of it, despite your circumstances...

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A Letter to 17 year old me

We can show that all athletes in sport can be perform at the highest level without compromising their health.

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It's not just one team. It's us, too.

We are human beings with varying physiologies that can't keep up with the currently established sports culture

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Learning to Move On: Pumpkinman Race Recap

Particularly moving on from bad days, knowing that they're just that: bad days. One single day out of 365 days in the entire year.

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Racing Against my Shadows: IM 70.3 Worlds Race Recap

It's been nearly 4 weeks since IRONMAN 70.3 Worlds. It's been 4 weeks since I hopped onto a plane to France, raced, and then flew back home.

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Getting Back on my Feet

Lots of things tend to get in the way of your goals sometimes. Since my last post, I've been dealing with summer classes, coaching, getti...

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Even the Swim was Hilly: IM 70.3 Connecticut Race Recap

(I'm kidding: the swim was actually shortened. But more on that later. ) One of things I'm starting to learn is understanding that the ro...

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Risks We Take: Quabbin Road Race Recap

Before I continue, please be advised that I am sharing details that may be uncomfortable for some viewers to read. I have also left out ...

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Suns Out, Quads Out: Chris Hinds "Sunshine" Criterium

This past month has been a whirlwind of training, mixed with academic stress, weird colds, stomach bugs, and injury. Originally, I intend...

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Training Alone vs with Others

A friend of mine recently asked how I'm able to train by myself everyday. And I think my 14-year-old self would've asked the same exact q...

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Training (Wednesday): Coaching Swim and Burnout

The past several weeks have been super crazy, especially with midterms slamming my schedule with the same frequency as New England snow s...

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2019 Race Season (Part 1)

So I've been keeping my race season under wraps, mostly because I hadn't worked out most of the logistics, especially for the latter part...

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10 Ways to Optimize School and Training

Let's face it: being a student is really hard and complicated. While we do get blocks of our day "off," we still have homework, a part-ti...

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Training Tuesdays: Changing your Mindset

I don't always accept a social media challenge that often. Even with the #10yearchallenge, I didn't really have anything significant that...

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Strength is your Best Friend

Endurance athletes, especially those who juggle multiple sports (cough cough, triathletes), find every excuse to not add strength and con...

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Training Tuesdays: FTP Tests

The holidays are over, the New Year has passed (Auld Lang Syne is still stuck in my head on repeat though), and it's that time of year: F...

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