Race Report

Cardinal Harbour Half Iron Triathlon Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

One thing that is good about writing a race report is that you can go back and review what your thoughts were and how things turned out in the end. In 2007, I did the MedExpress Mountaineer Triathlon to check  my fitness as I got into my final days of Ironman Wisconsin training. A very [...]

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American Triple T Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

[note: if you want to see our pictures of the event, you'll have to come on over to my facebook page - Gary's Facebook] It would probably be a good idea to begin by describing what events make up the American Triple T weekend. 1. Friday Evening Prologue: 250m swim, 5mile bike, 1mile run 2. [...]

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Rocket City Marathon Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

Following my typical operating procedures for this year, I’ve been exercising as much as I feel I can without becoming overtrained, yet enough to allow me to feel fit.  The truth is that since my EndureChallenge back in September I have been a little on the lower side of where I would like to be.  [...]

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The Chicago Marathon Race Report

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Where to begin?  I guess I’ll start with last week.  After my last longish run on Saturday the 4th, I decided to take several days off of running and focus on healing my hip.  I think I did everything I could think of to get relief.  I stopped running, I iced like mad, sometimes I [...]

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Lake City Marathon Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

So how was I going to approach the marathon at the end of my EndureChallenge journey?  It would have been easy to go into the race thinking that all I wanted to do was finish the race, but other than celebrating the transition from my 20′s to my 30′s, I wanted to try and break [...]

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Great Illini Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

If you follow my twitter page (twitter.com/ditschfitness) then you’ll know the basics as Nikki sent some out during the race. This report will fill in my emotions and feelings for the race, but first the basic stats: Great Illini Results – swim: 1:17:48 t1: 2:00 bike: 6:00:40 (18.6mph) t2: 1:14 run: 3:38:51 (8:21/mile) total: 11:00:34 [...]

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Bluegrass 10k

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I have to admit that I didn’t even want to run this race. It is always a hot and challenging race on the 4th of July in Lexington. I also wasn’t feeling like I was in great shape to run a 10k. We are in the first phase of our training program for Chicago which [...]

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Fletcher Flyer 100 mile.

by Gary Ditsch

Nikki and I went to Asheville, NC this past weekend to ride in the Fletcher Flyer. I will have a podcast out soon, I also got some video with my flip video that I’ll try to upload to You Tube.

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