Mar 16
(Part 2 of the Bhutan Trek Series from our trip in March 2019) The next morning, we left the comfort of Hotel Olathang behind and set out for the real adventure. For the next week we would be trekking deep into the Himalayas toward Mount Chomolhari (or Jhomolhari which is more phonetically accurate to how …
Mar 09
Intro The plane banked sharply between two mountains as we descended toward the tiny airport in Paro, Bhutan. For a moment it felt like the wing might scrape the cliffs. That’s when it really hit us. We were about to begin an 11-day trekking adventure into the Himalayas. Bhutan had been on our bucket list …
Mar 08
Some places grow on you over time. The Adirondacks weren’t like that for me. The first time I visited this area, I knew it was special. The mountains, the forests, the quiet roads, and the feeling that you were surrounded by wilderness in every direction. It felt different from anywhere else I had spent time. …
Jul 26
2022 Race and course report for the olympic distance triathlon at the Kinetic Multisports Pocono Triathlon Festival in Hawley, PA and Lake Wallenpaupack.
Jun 28
Ironman 70.3 North Carolina seems like it has been on hold for me forever. The time has finally come and gone and I have to say it was worth the wait. We loaded up the 4Runner and made the 9-10 hour drive down to Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on the Wednesday morning before the race. …
Aug 16
I have wanted to do the Musselman Triathlon. I love the Finger Lakes region of New York and had heard it was a really cool local, privately-run triathlon to do. I had done other races in the Finger Lakes like the Peasantman and the Keuka Lake Triathlon and then they never disappoint. Of course Ironman …
Dec 20
Part of our trip to Bhutan this year included bookending a few days in Kathmandu. My wife has been Kathmandu a couple of times before and always had good memories of her time there. Now I will get to see what she was talking about. We flew into Kathmandu via Emirates Airlines from Newark, NJ …
Aug 21
The Dolomites has been on our hit list for some time. For some reason it just keeps getting pushed off. Well this year we decided, relatively last-minute, to hit it. My wife did all the booking of Rifugio’s with some help from her friend who had done this trip some time ago. I worked on …
Jan 14
2019 has been fully laid out for me already. The biggest change is that I will NOT being doing a full Ironman distance event this year. It will be the first time in the last 6 years that I have not. However, I will be doing 2 Ironman 70.3 events and a few other smaller …
Dec 30
Our trip to Croatia and Slovenia was a couple years in the making. We had started planning two years ago to do a bike tour in Croatia and then I would do Ironman 70.3 Pula. That turned into being a little too complex with all the logistics. We finally settled on just renting a car …
