In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I introduce you to POC ski and bike helmets and eyewear (another long-running partnership). My family is fully outfitted with POC ski helmets and goggles. I’ve also been using POC helmets and eyewear for my triathlon, road cycling, and mountain biking for some time now as [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, my entire body is excited to introduce you to Firefly Recovery. Firefly is a scientifically proven device (it came from a medical device which received FDA approval, so it’s been tested and proven many times over). Firefly increases blood flow to your legs (and throughout your [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, my backside and private parts are thrilled to introduce you to BiSaddle, a U.S. company that makes the first and only adjustable saddles for all types of bikes. When I decided to build my dream bike last year, I thought about what changes I needed to make [...]
In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I am thrilled to introduce you to SLF Motion, a company that designs and manufactures the highest quality cycling drivetrain upgrades (over-sized pulley wheels, ceramic bottom bracket). SLF stand for Smoothest, Lightest, Fastest. And they deliver big time! I discovered SLF Motion in 2021 as I [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
