Rich's Fish Pond

If you find a small enough pond,
eventually you become the biggest fish.

Season Summaries
One human's journey into multisport competitions: triathlon, road running, open water swimming, duathlon, adventure racing, aquathlon, you name it!
20092008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
Tips                                       Training
Career                                  Recruits
Injury                                     No Whining

PRs
1 mile: 4:59, 10 Aug 02, Jax, FL
5k: 16:59, 21 Jun 02, Augusta, GA
4 mile: 24:11, 4 Jul 08, San Antonio, TX
10k (off-road): 41:10, 15 Nov 02, Ft Bragg, NC
Marathon: 13:15, 1996, Las Vegas, NV
Intl Triathlon: 2:02:34, 2000, Armed Forces, CA
Intl Triathlon (draft legal): 1:53:54, 2006, Armed Forces
Half-iron: 4:36, 12 Mar 01, Gulf Coast, FL
Iron: 11:12, 17 Oct 00, Great Floridian, FL
Placing is based on total men, no clydes or fat-tire.
Local Training Groups
San Antonio:
Team AlamoSan Antonio RoadRunners
 
SA Wheelmen | Palo Alto Natatorium
Florida Panhandle:
Valdosta:
Azalea City Cyclists
Fayetteville Area Triathlon Society

Series

FL:
Family Fitness Weekend (Coca-Cola Classic Series)
Beaches Fine Arts Sprint Triathlon Series

Clermont (TriFlorida)

AltaVista

Performance Multisports

X-tremegear
NC/SC:
Set-Up, Inc | NCTS | PSTS

Other
USA Triathlon | Age Group | Rules
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Mid-Atlantic | Southeast | Florida
Active.com
(best way to find races and signup)
Air Force Triathlon | Armed Forces Triathlon | Team Results | USAT
CISM

Triathlete Lies
1. Nice toenails.
2. It's a fast, flat run course.
3. The water is calm.
4. You can stay in your big ring on the hills.
5. I start taper next week.
6. Don't worry, I'm out of shape.
7. I'm just had the flu last week.
8. My crotch is not numb.
9. I really do enjoy my training.
10. Maybe I'll take few months off.

Triathlon Truths
1. If you choose a small enough pond, eventually you become the biggest fish.
2. You don't have to get faster, just older.
3. But everyone else is getting older, too.
4. Bikes don't win races, bikers do; shoes don't win races, runners do.
5. It's easy for a swimmer to learn how to run; tougher for a runner to learn how to swim.
6. There's a fine line between cheating and strategy.
7. Speed is a young man's game.
8. You get up earlier on the weekend than during the week.
9. You drink from your bike bottle instead of regular cups and glasses, even when not on your bike.
10. Just as pure runners and cyclists consider triathletes as dirt bags, triathletes consider adventure racers as dirt bags. I wanna' be everyone's dirtbag!
11. You don't get faster (or win races) drinking beer.
12. Never pass up the chance for a good brick.
13. There are no flip turns in the ocean.
14. Old swimmers never die, they just go multisport.

Triathlon
Geezer Jock
Inside Triathlon
Triathlete Magazine
Best book is
Triathlete Training Bible by Joe Friel

Running
Runner's World Magazine

Cycling

Swimming

US Masters Swimming
Total Immersion Swimming

Aquathlon
USAT Standards
World Aquathlon Championships

Adventure Racing
See
Tips
End of 11 mile Tony Knowles trail
Does an Alaskan moose belong in the fish pond?
1 1/2 mile road to Ice Runway
Skiing on frozen fish pond (sea ice) outside McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Tajbeg "Queen's" Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan
No fish in this pond