As I mentioned in my last post, the Los Cabos Ironman has been one of the smoothest races I have been able to be a part of and perhaps the only race that I was already planning to attend the following year before we even got to the starting line.  I tried to put some useful info in that post since it was a first year race and hopefully we will see you down there next year too!
I had a lot of questions about going into this race with my recent …

 This post maybe a work in progress as I add things and reflect after the travel to the Los Cabos Ironman but because it is a first year race I thought I would post up some useful info (if you have any specific Q’s let me know and I will try to answer them).  I am also planning on going back next year and I want as many of my friends and teamates to go so hopefully this will push them over the register button.  There is a lot of …

Well, we made it to Cabo and with my feet up, sand beneath me and ocean in front of me I am finally getting to relax a bit and reflect on the last couple months of getting to the starting line.

In short, it has been far from ideal…but that is the norm.  The smart athlete learns to adjust, stay positive and just get your butt to the starting line.  The lead into my fourth Ironman has also been very different, which is a good and bad thing but enough to expect very …

 
I was stoked to be able to chat (via email) with Collin from Triple Threat Triathlon and get some unique questions for an interview and learn more about TTT.
Here is the interview if you want to check it out on their blog  http://triplethreattriathlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/slater-fletcher-dream-crushing-at-its.html

Collin asked for a couple photos so I sent him some race pics from Panama and said he could pull some down from facebook if he wanted more.  I was cracking up when I saw some of the pictures below but it brought back some good memories.  I …

Kicking off 2013 racing with a good hard race!  Panama 70.3 did not disappoint and after the travel home I am glad this will be the hottest, furthest and most “questionable” race of the year for me.
I had a couple main reasons I wanted to spend the 10+ hr of travel to get to the starting line.  A) I wanted to RACE!  Racing is fun.  B) I wanted to get a hard race under my belt to start the year off and something before Cabo – Not many options fit that category …

In endurance sports, sometime getting to the starting line is the hardest part.  I had an interesting training build going into the Panama 70.3 with my sport specific fitness changing week to week but the challenges that my buddy Josh and I have had to tackel over the last couple days to get here, well, its just making me laugh at this point.  Travel is an interesting beast but when you get to the destination it is almost always worth it.  Today is our first full day in Panama and our first …

After taking more than a year off triathlon and just focusing on running last year, I did my first triathlon in about 16 months, the Sprint Distance Turkey Tri and followed that up with a half ironman (HITS) the next weekend in December.  What a kick to the balls!  It was good to have a break from tri and the two races allowed me to see where I was at after the end of a big year of running. It also allowed me (forced me) to adapt a new training …

After taking time away and running on trails for the last year or so i have had a burning desire to get out and swim, bike and run my way to a new level.
The last couple weekends I was able to jump into two local triathlons and it reminded me why I love racing so much.  After doing so many races over the last few years I got into a train_to_train in 2011 and in so doing only raced a single triathlon in all of 2011.  Boo!  As I recently told my …

Last month, I was fortunate enough to join Crew My Run and some friends for a 3 day running trip around Mt. Rainier in Washington on the Wonderland Trail.  What is Wonderland Trail you ask?  I had that same question just a few week prior to the trip and it did not take much research for me to realize this was a trip that I had to find a way to make.  Its a beautiful place and some of the best trails I have ever had the pleasure of running.  Hopefully this gets you …

Just as I finished and celebrated my first run block of the year with the Zion 100, I happened to find the Tahoe Sierra 100 race to celebrate my first block of the year back on the bike.  After making the rounds and getting a NEW BIKE I could not think of a better way to rip my legs off this weekend.

 The TS100 is what I would consider a “real deal” race.  It is a point to point race in the mountains over technical single track trails with loads of climbing (~17,000-18,000ft) …