Monthly Archives: September 2009

One Week After – My Ironman Wisconsin 2009 Race Report Part 1

By bryanbig | Published: September 20, 2009
Now that my body feels pretty much healed up and my head seems to be screwed on straight, I feel like I can give a race report to the rest of the world that won’t make me sound like a whiney little biatch. Trying to look at it objectively, I did okay for my first [...]
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Ironman is fun

By bryanbig | Published: September 14, 2009
This will be quick because I’m exhausted, I’m typing on my crackberry and I’m off to bed. I’ll have much more detail later. My quick thoughts were my swim was WAAAY too fast for my fitness, I burned too many bike matches in the second hour which then made me shift from a goal-time [...]
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swim

By bryanbig | Published: September 13, 2009
In the water off and swimming
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race day

By bryanbig | Published: September 13, 2009
Bry is in transition area pumping his tires and making sure his bike is good to go
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Three Quick Thoughts From Madison

By bryanbig | Published: September 10, 2009
1- The Endurance Nation dinner ended up ok, even though there were some hiccups. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it. 2-Lake Monona looks less green – but still smells like a sewage plant. I’ll know more tomorrow after the OWS practice. 3- On a related note: I hope they find the dead guy in the lake before race [...]
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Three Quick Thoughts From Madison

By bryanbig | Published: September 10, 2009
1- The Endurance Nation dinner ended up ok, even though there were some hiccups. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it. 2-Lake Monona looks less green – but still smells like a sewage plant. I’ll know more tomorrow after the OWS practice. 3- On a related note: I hope they find the dead guy in the lake before race [...]
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Looking Back At The Ironman Journey – T minus 4 to go!

By bryanbig | Published: September 8, 2009
I am pretty much logistically prepared for my trip to Madison for the 2009 Ironman. In an attempt to make sure I keep perspective, I had my wonderful trainer Kate do a last Fitness Assessment on me before the race. I hadn’t done one in almost a year. The last time I [...]
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Ironman Goals

By bryanbig | Published: September 6, 2009
“What are your goals?”  I get that question alot, and usually I turn it into another question. “What do you mean my goals?” “For the race.  How fast do you expect to go?” This is the rub.  I honestly have no idea how fast I am going to go.  Its my first race in more than 15 years [...]
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