Real Name: Richard
Gender: Male
Birthday: Jul 02, 1959
Age: 53
City: Southbury
State: CT
About Me: I'm a 48 year old IM racing age grouper who developed an obsession for long training while training for Florida Ironman. I love to train, especially if it's all day.
Motivation: THE SMELL OF FEAR
Goals: 1. To race Hawaii Ironman; 2. To qualify for Boston
Sponsors: My wife Celeste has quadruple mortgaged the house and maxed out 15 credit cards to help me race Ironman. Please sponsor me because I'm running out of money fast.
Occupation: Research Engineer
Business Name: TRI-COACHING
Business Contact: coachcard@peak.com
Business Website: www.peak.com
Business Client Experience: My clients range from very athletic to sedentary moving toward active.
I'm currently training a few athletes for: Ironman racing, marathon racing, cycle racing, road racing, and triathlons
Business Description: Endurance Sport Coaching
Favorite People / Places: People:
I love the underdog, the slow dude they counted out, the guy that smoked-em bad :-)
Places:
Snokeling: Great Barrier Reef, Peurto Rico, Cozumel, Cancun, Cayman Brac, Grand Cayman
Swimming: Grace Bay (Turks & Caicos); Barbados; Sydney (Bondi & Manly beach); Tazmania (Wineglass Bay.. man that's cold); Southern Ocean off Austrailia (12 Apostles); Tortola (Smuggler's Cove); Virgin Gorda (the Bath); Martinique; St. Martin; Aruba; Curacao; Kauii (Napali Coast, and Puipu beach); Oahu (North Shore); Maui (any beach); Big Island (Kona); English Channel; St Kitts; St Martin; St Lucia; St Vincent; Dominican Republic; Bonaire; Florida Keys
Cycling: Green Mountains, White Mountains, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, California, Maui (Haleakalā)
Running: St Lucia, Skagway, Alaska (watch the bears); Austrailia (Melbourne, Sydney, Cains, Tazmania, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Frazier island, Table Lands); Vancouver, BC
Tabogoning: Lake Lucern, Switzerland; Alaska; Austria
Favorite Events: Any Ironman race (single, double, triple, DECA)
Mt Washington Road Race (turning the first corner puts the race in perspective; passing the competition at 5000 ft. while looking down at base camp is priceless)
Any event for breast cancer (Mom is a survivor)
Favorite Gears: 2001 Lemond Zurich
2007 Cervelo P3C
2008 Specialized SWORKS (quick step paint)
ZIPP 999 wheel-set
Saris 2.4SL wireless power tap
CycleOps Fluid II
Kreitler rollers
ASIC 2130s
Aquaman BIONIK wetsuit
Rocket Science Transition Bag
ZIPP VUKA headset
NOKON cables
Look KEO Ti/Carbon fiber competition pedals
XLAB carbon fiber Hydration System w/ Adrundel carbon fiber cages
Favorite Food / Drinks: Accelerade
Endurox R4
Performance Bars
Performance Gels
Favorite Book / Magazines: Books:
Lore of Running
The Triathletes Training Bible
The Runners Handbook
The Competitive Runners Handbook
Going Long
Brain Training for Runners
Daniels Running Formula
Breakthrough Swimming
Advanced Marathoning
Magazines:
Bicycling
Triathlete
Runners World
Mens Fitness
Favorite Sports / Teams: Slipstream (DZ & the Boys rock.. go Dave)
CSC (P3Cs rule time trialing)
Astana (Levi needs to ride a Cervelo)
Favorite Quotes: "You're old enough to go to war; yet, too young to drink"
"Do ya wanna live forever"
"Luck is: residual training"
"Sit back, shut-up, and enjoy the ride"
"BOOHA"
"How do I get faster at swimming? Get in the water, shut your hole and swim laps!"
Workout Routines / Fitness Tips: Workout Routines: Run 10M in the freezing rain for lunch; Run 22M at lunch during IM volume build; Saturday long session: swim 5M with marathon swim buddy, then bike 125M with cat 3 bike buddy, then run half marathon with marathon run buddy; 4000 laps (20,000yds) in the pool followed by 2hours of weights, then a 60M bike ride; 12M Hill repeats on an 18% hill (1.5M) the day after the Saturday long session.
Fitness Tips: Don't eat yellow snow; 600 AB reps is not enough