Why do I blog?

At first it started out as a way of keeping track of exactly what I did in training. There wasn't enough room in the comment section of the "Tri Geek Spreadsheet" (which in my opinion is the best training log out there) and I wanted a way of documenting how I felt, the weather conditions and exactly what happened during the workout.

The origional title to my blog was "My journey to Ironman Florida" but changed it after IMFL cuz it didn't make sense afterwards.

For the last 2 summers I layed off the blog cuz I was just too busy but I really wish I would have kept up with it, that way I would have kept a record of what was going through my head. I do this strictly for myself but like to make it available for other people's enjoyment/amusment.

Anywho, some of my friends found my blog and started to read it, then people from the Slowtwitch forum started too. People kept sending me PM's for a link (which really surprised me) so I put it in my sig line.

I'm nobody special, I haven't ever won a triathlon but have finished 2nd twice when the big guns didn't show up. I very routinely finish 4th through 10th in local events. I have improved every year for the last 6 years. I keep blowing the run on HIM's up to this year where I did well on two of them.

I am completely unsponsered so I pay for all of my stuff. My thanks goes out to my tri club sponsors - Two Wheel Tango, Running Fit and Different Strokes for giving our club discounts. Cadence Cycle and Bikesport have helped me out with advise, sales and friendship. My tri club (FAST) has been responsible for some of the best things in my life.

I don't sell anything here but I do link to some blogs that do. I like to link to informative sites as well as funny ones. I routinely go to http://icanhascheezburger.com/ cuz I think it's so funny. There is a chance to win a major award at the bottom of my blog (as a joke) but nobody has ever contacted me about it.

I like to use "cuz" cuz I'm too lazy to write "because." I usually have too many l's in my writing and pronounce the word "coupon" as "cuepon."