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40s Comeback: Minimalist Ironman Training for Maximum Effect (6 hours per...
A time-crunched 45-year-old Clydesdale (200 lbs.) finds the family efficient triathlon training frontier: 6 hours per week. If only the boys could tow me through Ironman… After a decade-long hiatus...
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January Ironman Training: 4 Hours per Week
January Summary Back when training was fun, the 1996 Eco Challenge (Suz Bottom, second from the left) Starting weight (first three morning average): 217 Ending weight: 215 10 total workouts (two Monday...
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February Ironman Training: 4 Hours-Per-Week
A nice February workout for 6-year-old Ryan...50# Wahoo February Summary Starting weight: 215 Ending weight: 214 (Key West vacation did not help here) Total workouts: 12 (Key West vacation did help...
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March: Ironman on 5 hours of training per week?
The Basement "Spa" March Summary Starting weight (first three morning average): 214 Ending weight: 210 Total workouts: 16 Weekly Avg Work: 5 hours Actual bike watts/1.5 hours (aero): 199 watts...
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April Ironman Training: 7 hours per week
Bahamas, 2006 Bahamas, 2012...Live now, or it's gone. April Summary Starting weight (first three morning average): 210 Ending weight: 207 Total workouts: 19 Weekly Avg Work: 7 hours Longest bike: 96...
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May Ironman Training: 7 hours per Week
Ryan Atkinson and Jake Gearhart at the end of 100-miles ...while the boys have the skills for fun sports! Starting weight (first three morning average): 207 Ending weight: 205 Total workouts: 16...
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June Ironman Training: 7 Hours of Weekly Training; Something Wicked This Way...
Commute by train, or... Starting weight (first three morning average): 205 ...at 0415 in the rain? Ending weight: 201 Total workouts: 15 (32 hours) Weekly Avg Work: 7.5 hours Estimated Ironman...
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July Ironman Training: 10 Hours per Week
In July I departed the clydesdale ranks, sinking to 197 pounds from a high of 217 in January. I did a lot of work. Or so I thought. Including a Half Ironman, a mile swim followed by a 15 mile run, and...
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Ironman New York City Race Report
Ironman New York Race Report Finishing Time: 10 hours 46 minutes 52 seconds August 11, 2011 Training I started training for my first Ironman in seventeen years on January 1st, 2012. I was 42-years-old...
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Ironman Lake Placid (IMLP) 2014 Race Report: Minimalist Training Program
A family tradition…in a few years I’ll be escorting the boys with my cane. When I sampled Ironman in the early 90s, I viewed the 45+ age-groupers with curiosity. So I was unsurprised when a kid at my...
View ArticleThe Village
This is the story of fifteen Americans engaged in a fight for 485 days. No unit in Vietnam had a higher fatality rate.The odds of going home alive were fifty-fifty, a coin flip. More Marines died in...
View ArticleOne Million Steps Overview
“writing of the highest order.” – Amazon Pick of the Month “an epic of contemporary small unit combat… a stinging indictment of our strategy. –Eliot Cohen: Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and...
View ArticleThe Wrong War
Overview Reviews of The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan “West (The Strongest Tribe), a former Marine combat veteran and assistant secretary of defense under Reagan, boldly...
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Ironman Lake Placid (IMLP) 2014 Race Report: Minimalist Training Program
When I sampled Ironman in the early 90s, I viewed the 45+ age-groupers with curiosity. So I was unsurprised when a kid at my Lake Placid hotel last week asked me why “an older guy” would subject his...
View ArticleWelcome to the Jungle
On the fifth sleepless night of the world’s toughest expedition race, three intrepid Playmates crashed down the rapids of the Segami river in Borneo, boulders surging up suddenly out of the black,...
View ArticleAppearances
10 Feb – NYC, Council on Foreign Relations, Paley Center Film screening and discussion of Restrepo Sebastin Junger, Tim Hetherington, Gideon Rose & Bing West 12 Feb – D.C. Nixon Center,...
View ArticleVietnam War Was Honorable
Last Christmas, I went back to a village where I had fought 35 years ago. It is 400 miles north of Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City. The North Vietnamese had also changed the name of the village –...
View ArticleRotten to the Corps
There is success and then there is huge success. “Jarhead” has enjoyed the second kind: best-seller status, fawning reviews and the “relevance” that only war can bring to a book by a military man....
View ArticleOur Soldiers are Warriors, not Victims
By Owen and Bing West The Hero as Predator, Not Victim by Owen West and Bing West The National Review Outside Fallujah a year ago today, a small convoy was ambushed by fifty insurgents. A...
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3 reasons to get your dog an orthopedic dog bed
Nowadays, pets have transcended their traditional role of guardians and companions to family members we love unconditionally. Most pet owners say they would be willing to go to the greatest of lengths...
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