PETER SHANKMAN
| POSTED ON July 20th, 2008 | 20 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
And sometimes the bear gets you. The 2008 Nautica NYC Triathlon is over, capping a ridiculously busy, and ultimately frustrating weekend for me. Sadly, it didn’t go even remotely the way I wanted it to, resulting in my not participating in the Tri at all, but picking my bike up and walking it home at 5am with a 101 degree fever. Friday morning started off early, as my mornings do. Was called in at the last second to do a spot on Fox Business, which went surprisingly well – one of the best segments I’ve ever done on the show to date! The day continued with me in meetings, more meetings, then a quick run to JFK Airport to get [...]
| POSTED ON July 7th, 2008 | 9 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
So the other day, I signed up with a Triathlon team. I figured, I have my running team, so this is a way to get faster in the other two sports that compose a Triathlon. Today, their calendar said “moderate run,” since most of them were doing the Rhode Island Half-Ironman this coming weekend. I emailed one of the run organizers: “So, I’m not really like, you know… fast. And by “not really fast,” I mean “I’m slow.” Is that ok? “Sure,” he said. “We’re all taking it slow tonight, since we’ve got that Half-Ironman this weekend.” I thought that was cool, I could easily run the nine miles they were doing. No problem at all, and I could probably [...]
| POSTED ON May 11th, 2008 | 13 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
I control-alt-deleted my brain on Saturday. Twice, in fact. This winter was way too long, way too cold, and way too depressing. This summer finds me back in hard-core training for the 2008 NYC Marathon, the Arkansas Iron-Mountain Half-Ironman, and a ton of other races. I’m gonna jump as much as I can in the middle of all of this. For the first time in several months, I’m feeling positive. And it’s good. Saturday’s jumps are below. Yeah, baby.
| POSTED ON April 30th, 2008 | 17 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
MRI on Friday. If the marathon goes out of reach for another year, I’m subletting my apartment, leaving a dead cow for the cats, and getting out of the country for the next six months.
| POSTED ON April 16th, 2008 | 4 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
As opposed to “This… Is… SPARTA!!” I got introduced to Crossfit this morning by someone else at Ad:Tech. You know how you can tell I did? I’m the guy at Ad:Tech who can’t walk. 6am at Golden Gate Park. It was… Well, it was hellish. And it was painful. And it was… more addictive than what I assume a first hit of Crystal Meth would be. I’m so totally, completely, and utterly hooked. For serious. The second I get back to NYC, I’m signing up. It’s that simple. I think this might be what I need to help push me to that 3:45 marathon this coming November. Some idea of what I was doing this morning can be found below. [...]
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