Athletic-Minded Traveler

A while back we posted about organic milk . It’s a fairly detailed post and worth a peruse for anyone curious about organic versus non organic milk. Anyway, our local paper recently demystified the whole “sell by date” thing. I found it helpful and interesting.
Summary:
The sell by date is the LAST day [...]

In San Diego we are blessed with good weather year-round. Even when it’s “bad” it’s still pretty darn good, especially compared to many other cities across the U.S. When we moved here from Chicago, we happily left behind winter’s brutal chill and summer’s unrelenting humidity…
But then mother nature delivers a wallop and forces [...]

Last week I had to fly from San Diego to Colorado Springs. In the past, this trip required at least one layover. But on this occasion I was excited at the prospect of getting from the Pacific Ocean to “The Springs” directly in two hours. Thanks to Express Jet Airlines (full disclosure: [...]

My “body guru” Kim Luckini recently checked in with me. (I’ve referenced her before regarding my hip issues.) Anyway, she just completed her FIRST marathon and her musing on the experience is inspirational and interesting.
Interesting because most of the active individuals I know share my fitness history: sports as a kid into [...]

It took 7 years, but Chris McCormack finally got his victory. Congrats to Macca who passed Chris Lieto at the 7 hour mark and never looked back.
Relative unknown Chrissie Wellington of Great Britain led most of the bike and all of the run to finish first in her rookie Ironman Hawaii. Only 1 [...]

Torbjorn Sinballe of Denmark leads the men with a couple minutes over Chris Lieto and around 8 minutes above Chris MacCormack.
Relative unknown Chrissie Wellington leads the women and could pull off a HUGE upset here today. She’s a couple minutes ahead of Belinda Grainger.

It’s not because of the conditions. Temps are warm, but not epic. Defending Norman Stadler has dropped out and is on a stretcher, continuing the list of German “no shows” this year. On the women’s side, Natascha Badman and Michellie Jones are far back.
Looks like a new champion might be crowned this [...]

One of the race favorites, German Faris Al Sultan, has withdrawn from today’s Ironman Hawaii. According to his agent, he has battled “stomach issues” for the past 2 days and will not be able to compete at 100 percent. That’s really too bad. Faris is one of the great guys in the [...]

As the native Hawaiian horns blow this morning announcing the start of the 2007 Ironman Championships, Mother Nature appears to be smiling. Kailua-Kona is forecasted to enjoy temps in the low to mid 80’s, humidity in the 60%’s and SSE winds 10-15 mph. View a detailed forecast here.
These conditions bode well for the [...]

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