Beginner Triathlete - EPIC Race Reports articles

Ironman Couer d'Alene 2003 - Inspirational first ironman triathlon devoted to his wife battling cancer.

Here's my race report: I started swimming in the first wave. End of race report. Now for the gory details.

Pain shows us how strong we are. After last weekend I am convinced of this. After 151 training hours of swimming, biking, and running, I flew to Sonoma County, California for the race.

California 1/2 Ironman: The run was my biggest fear. Prior to training, I had never run more than two miles at any given time.

How Pilates training helped a wanna-be triathlete realize the goal of completing a half-Ironman, Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island.

My race report is different. My motivating factors go back seven years. I have lived in denial for seven years. Depression. I registered for Ironman Texas even though I felt like a complete failure.

My personal experience to complete the Ironman 70.3

I was in the moment, living a dream and on top of the whole world! Honestly, I wish everyone could experience that feeling because it truly cannot be described.

A middle-of-the-pack triathlete takes on the iron distance for the first time at Rev3's inaugural full distance race

I cried the morning of the race when the "Star Spangled Banner" played, but I wasn't alone. IRONMAN is electric!!

My First Half Ironman Experience-A Slow, Fat, Old Triathlete. Here is my story of my first, and probably only Half Ironman. I’m an almost 52 year old, VERY Athena triathlete.

I just had a couple of problems, I could count the number of triathlons I had contested at zero. Secondly, I could count on one hand the number of times I had been swimming in the last 17 years.

If you are calm while everyone around you is losing it, you probably don’t know what the hell is going on.

When the air horn went off, I did my best to simulate laps in the pool, but that dang panic came over me again, causing me to breaststroke until I could calm my breathing.

I am not tough. I cried during the Lion King stampede, during Armageddon when Liv Tyler collapsed on the TV as her dad wished her farewell and, most embarrassingly, E.T.