In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, my swimming is thrilled to introduce you to eoSwimBetter. I was recently introduced to eoSwimBETTER by Brenton Ford of Effortless Swimming as I looked for ways to be more competitive with the strong-swimming triathletes in my age group. Despite my best efforts at improving my swim technique and [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I introduce you to Atomic ski equipment, my longest-running partner. For anyone who is involved in skiing, Atomic is a brand that is well known as a world leader in our sport with a stable of some of the best skiers in the world including Mikaela Shiffrin [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I introduce you to SYNC performance ski apparel. SYNC manufactures the highest-quality performance ski clothing for alpine skiers. It clears the bar of what I'm looking for when I'm skiing: performance, comfort, style, and function. SYNC is also committed to supporting ski racing and helping young [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, the open-water swimmer in me is excited to introduce you to deboer wetsuits, the most scientifically advanced wetsuit ever made. deboer wetsuits have been developed in collaboration with Olav Aleksander Bu, the Head of Performance for the Norway Triathlon, the co-founder of Santara Technology, and the [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I introduce you to The Feed. The Feed is your one-stop shop for all your sports-nutrition needs. From hydration to fueling, from drink powders to gels, chews, and bars, for training or races, from kids to age groupers to pros—for everyone who competes and aims to [...]
Greetings from Las Playitas, on the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Las Playitas is a true triathletes’ dream, with the most amazing 50m pool and open-water swimming, biking, running, and strength training. I’m here on the last day of my first-ever “tra-cation” (training vacation) during which I’m continuing my “Don’t Violate the Law [...]
We humans sure like our bubbles. Not the bath or blowing varieties, but the psychological, emotional, social, and physical spaces that we create to feel safe and protected. Bubbles are actually an evolutionary thing that initially developed as a means of increasing our chance of survival. As we have evolved, there were five feelings that [...]
After an 11-year break from triathlon, I rejoined our sport in 2019 and have been a committed short-course triathlete ever since. For the past several years, I’ve been on pretty much the same training program, and it has served me very well, having worked my way up the ranks and having achieved national championship titles [...]
You might think that I’m going through some sort of morbid phase in my writing because of my last article about Another Death in Our Ski Racing Family followed by this one. Certainly, bad timing, though I don’t think there is a good time for death. But writing helps me grieve and I hope my [...]
I have a question for you: "During bike rides, do your 'parts down below' ever get numb or just plain hurt?" I'm guessing most of you will say, "Oh yeah!" (said with a grimace and a groan). I have a long history of real discomfort in my nether regions when I ride either my road [...]
