Photos from the first bike ride

By rickColosimo / April 5, 2011 / Comments Off on Photos from the first bike ride

As an aside, this was taken with the front-facing camera on my iphone. Not too shabby. Does this helmet make me look fat? You’ll note that I have toe straps; I haven’t yet moved to the clipless pedals/shoes that everyone talks about. Soon. Soon.   This ride turned out to be 12.06 miles, acc’g to…

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Tough Mudder update!

By rickColosimo / April 5, 2011 / Comments Off on Tough Mudder update!

First off, here’s the link to my fundraising page for this event: Crowdrise/watchricktrain is where I’ll be posting all the events between now and the Ironman in November. Since the Tough Mudder course is about 10 miles, plus up and down the hills, I have eased off on the swimming and focused more on running…

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Biking update

By rickColosimo / April 3, 2011 / Comments Off on Biking update

Since the Ironman has a substantial bike component — I don’t know what other adjective describes 112 miles — I knew I needed to start learning how to really bike. My plan was to swim through the winter and start biking in the spring. Weather’s slowly changing, and that time is now. I picked up…

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