Ironman The Thing That Happened on Friday You guys. This thing happened on Friday morning. I hesitate telling you this story because I think you might not believe that it's true. But I'm telling you, this story is true. It will seem unlikely that this could happen
Ironman 2014 Each year when I sit down to write the New Year wrap-up post, I begin the process by reviewing what I wrote the year before. It gets me in the mood to reflect. And it's always fascinating to me to review the
Ironman Eli McCann: World's Leading Environmentalist You guys. I done be savin' the world up in here! Because yesterday I finally put my foot down for the environment. And America. And righteousness. Hashtag 'merica. There's this place at the food court in the building in which
Ironman Dentist Appointment Announcement: I'll be telling a story on The Porch at 9:00 on Saturday night in Salt Lake City. It's the best story from my life--one some of you have heard, but with some new details and updates that nobody
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions By the good graces of God, Matt got very very sick this week. He asked me if I could come to his place and take Ollie for a day or
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions So the other day I wrote about how I decided to sign up for Ironman Boulder. And in that post I explained that trying to prepare for and get to
Ironman Step One, Fail an Ironman. Step Two . . . You may have heard because I think I mentioned it a little while ago but I tried to do an Ironman this year. You may have also heard that that Ironman did not go, let's see, how do we say this, super
Ironman After Shocks A few days have passed since Ironman Lake Tahoe. After they announced that the race had been cancelled, we were told to wander around to the various places where we had dropped off all of our gear the day before to gather it up.
Ironman Ironman Lake Tahoe, 2014 We made our trek west bright and early Friday morning for the Lake Tahoe Ironman. A couple of months ago I asked Nic if he would be willing to come along as my support staff for the race, and he graciously agreed. This stuff
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I am a few hours away from taking off for Ironman Tahoe. I sit in my apartment tonight with all of my belongings spread out all over the floor. My
Ironman The Day of Reckoning is Upon Us All First of all, WHO THE HELL WROTE THAT SUPER DRAMATIC POST ON SUNDAY!? Second, you guys. I am leaving for Ironman on Friday morning. FRIDAY MORNING. THAT'S THE DAY AFTER THURSDAY! AND THURSDAY HAPPENS ALMOST EVERY SINGLE WEEK! I DON'T
Ironman Trying to STAY THE HELL CALM First, in response to your general concern about Friday's post, in which I told you that apparently someone trained in the ways of medicine thinks I'm dying, I want to give you a slight update and a little more info.
Ironman Tan Lines to be Proud of You guys. The Ironman is now four weeks away! FOUR! That can be counted on one hand! Unless you're my eighth grade shop teacher who only had three
Ironman The Community Pool The Ironman is only like eight weeks away now and I know this is likely not the case, but I think we may have somehow gone through a time warp and skipped like eleventy weeks. Because just a few minutes ago the Ironman was
Ironman That Day Remember that book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? I had one of those on Saturday. Not the book. I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. One of those days where nothing truly traumatic actually happened but
Ironman Ten Weeks Is Not Very Long I looked at the calendar the other day and YOU GUYS. The Ironman is ten weeks away. How did this happen? Remember when I did the half Ironman in May and when it was over you guys were like, "you have PLENTY of
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have some news that is about to change your lives. Well, maybe not change them. But I suspect that you'll be excited to hear this news. Or
Ironman St. George Half Ironman I was so nervous heading down to St. George to compete in the half Ironman this weekend. So many mixed emotions hit me in the weeks leading up to it.
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I'm in a car now with Disney Prince Hair Brandt, pointed toward St. George. I'm not driving! Let's all calm down. I don'
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Good day, my children. One week from tomorrow I'll be racing the half Ironman in St. George. And when I say "racing" I mean "crying
Ironman Descending and Climbing Every day that passes I get a little more freaked out about my future. This is because the part of my future that is freaking me out is starting to
Ironman Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Last night I hosted the weekly Survivor party at my place (is anyone out there watching Survivor?). I'm trying to turn the party hosting into a cutthroat competition
Ironman St. George Misery This weekend Brandt (AKA Mr. Disney Prince Hair) and I ventured south to the magical land of St. George Utah. We thought this was a good idea because the half
Ironman State of the Union, Spring About six months ago I moved back from Palau to the United States of God Bless America. And when I did, I had a hard time updating you all on
Ironman YOU GUYS BROKE YOUR PROMISE! I think I made a terrible mistake. You guys. I made a TERRIBLE mistake! Remember when I tried to do an Ironman that one time? Remember how it did not