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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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. [...]