Race Report

2013 Wisconsin Race Report: Scott Carty, 1st Time Ironman Negative Splits the Run!

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1st time Ironman® puts up a 15′ negative split run!! The planning for the last year had all come down to this one Sunday in September. To say that I had been dreaming about his day, would probably be an understatement. 20 years ago was the first time I heard about the Ironman. I remember…

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2013 Wisconsin: Meet Team Endurance Nation

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Like Ironman® Lake Placid, Team Endurance Nation is making a huge showing at Ironman® Wisconsin 2013! Set in the rolling hills of college town Madison, Wisconsin, you won’t see many cheeseheads wandering the streets. Instead, you’ll swim a loop on Lake Monona, and bike and run through rural and urban settings to the finish line.…

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2013 Lake Placid Race Report and Podcast: George Jordan snags a new PR!

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To start off my family did not want to go to Lake Placid and reminded me of that fact every day of the trip except race day. My kids prefer warm weather and beaches. The cold 45 degree evenings in Lake Placid were not what their idea of fun. PreRace We flew into Albany on…

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2013 Lake Placid Race Report: John Withrow (3rd Overall in Executive Challenge!)

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I wrote this RR for the many people who supported Team ReserveAid and for my EN family. So it is a long (probably boring) documentation of my entire race. Here’s the Executive Summary if you just want the summary: I swam the best I ever have (top 21% vs my previous best top 30%), crushed…

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2013 Lake Placid Race Report: Teri Cashmore

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The days leading up to Lake Placid felt like a roller coaster ride. I experienced the highs, the lows and everything in between. Thankfully everything turned out exactly like I imagined. 12 days before Lake Placid I crashed on my bike. I was going over 40 mph down a mountain road when it happened. I…

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2013 Lake Placid Race Report: Kori Martini

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I’ll start off by saying that I came into this season with a much different perspective than I did to 2012. For those of you who didn’t read last year’s report, I’ll summarize it by saying that I was dumb enough to sign up for an IM when I had newborn twins and a 17-month…

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2013 Lake Placid Race Report: Joe Manning

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PRE-RACE: I travel 3 or 4 days per week for work and unfortunately the week leading up to Lake Placid was no exception.  I had meetings Monday in Denver, then Tuesday in Orlando, and I was planning fly to Albany Wednesday, link up with the family and drive to LP on Thursday morning.  I arrived…

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2013 Ironman Austria Race Report: Stefan Reiter

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First Ironman, 9:35! Race week I started the week with 3 days of high fat/protein and low carbs nutrition in order to support carbo-loading on the last 2 days before the race. Everything was working out great an I also managed to have a swim every day and get in all other WKOs as planned.…

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2013 Couer d'Alene Debrief: Highlights and Resources

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Nearly 30 TeamEN athletes competed at Coeur d’Alene this year.  2013 was the 11th running of the event, the first year of Ironman’s new swim start protocol, the second year of the third permutation of the bike course and second year of the second iteration of the run course…yep, Endurance Nation has a loonngg history…

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2013 Couer d'Alene Race Report – Dino Sarti

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Coeur d’Alene 2013 was Dino Sarti’s first Ironman® and, more importantly, was a significant milestone in a personal health and lifestyle transformation that he began over 3 years, and many, many pounds ago. Dino is local to Coach Rich, and he’s had the pleasure of training with Dino, watching him grow as an athlete and…

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