"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." Denis HealeyIronman 70.3 VinemanSonoma County, CA ✮ 2013.07.14I tried really hard to write this in the lead up to the race, but with the last two races on the calendar being a "personal worst performance" (St. George) and a did-not-start (Honu), I just couldn't quite bring myself to … Continue reading First Law of Holes
Sometimes The Bar Eats You
© 2013 Larry Rosa (endurapix.com)Ironman 70.3 US Pro ChampionshipsSt. George, UT ✮ 2013.05.04After my rather ignominious finish in St. George, a single thought (well, at least a single appropriate thought) kept running through my mind. "Well, a wiser fella than myself once said, 'sometimes you eat the bar. And, well, sometimes he eats you...'" And so it … Continue reading Sometimes The Bar Eats You
Saint George and the Dragon
It's hard to think of a more classic fable than the story of St. George and the Dragon. Villagers must make a sacrifice to a dragon who lives by the spring where they draw water. Typically, they sacrifice animals, but if no animals were to be had, a maiden had to be sacrificed instead. The … Continue reading Saint George and the Dragon
Boston
Boylston St. © David Abel"This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." - D. Eisenhower
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics 2013
As an admitted and proud nerd, I was thrilled to be invited to be a panel speaker at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which took place early in March of this year. The panel that I was on was titled, "Stronger, Faster, Better: Technology Analytics." The panel was moderated by Mark McClusky, a senior … Continue reading MIT Sloan Sports Analytics 2013
Speechless
The final kilometers of the run course.Ironman Asia-Pacific ChampionshipMelbourne, AUS ✮ Mar 24, 2013Ironman always takes a lot out of you, though one thing I did not expect to have taken out of me was my voice, which I lost with about 5km to go (I found myself unable to ask for anything at aid stations and … Continue reading Speechless
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
I'm here in Oz for the second edition of the Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships in Melbourne. When I started looking ahead to 2013, I fully expected that I'd return to Texas, which is a fantastic race and one that I'm eager to return to again. But I also knew that, more generally, I needed to seek … Continue reading Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Headed Home
home...So, after a lot of deliberation - and I do mean a lot - the Shiv has a new home. Or, rather, it has what might be considered an "old" home, but more on that later. One of the recurring themes in the essays - I still hesitate to call them "applications" - that I … Continue reading Headed Home
How’s The Water?
If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power … Continue reading How’s The Water?
117. A Shiv-away Update
Sorry for the long delay in giving an update on the Shiv-away Giveaway. I received 117 messages - it feels weird to call them "applications" - for the bike. Yup, one hundred and seventeen. In order to not be affected by judging bias (psychologically, you are biased by time - what you read first, what … Continue reading 117. A Shiv-away Update
Jordan Rapp 