This recap was submitted by Run Oregon reader Adam Williams. Feel free to Submit a Guest Post in the “Contact Us” tab if you want to get involved. After missing out on my first triathlon last year due to a raccoon-versus-bicycle-accident related injury, the 2014 Leadman Triathlon on September 20th capped off my comeback and was easily the highlight of my athletic “career” thus far. Over 200 people showed up for an “as perfect as could be hoped for…
A year ago I was training, along with my brother-in-law (ed. note – that would be me, Matt), to compete in my first Olympic triathlon. Teaching myself to swim the distance of such events, putting miles on my running shoes, and putting these workouts before or after bicycle rides, my preferred activity. My hopes of completing the Portland Triathlon in September last year were dashed when I struck a raccoon on bicycle during an early…
I completed my first three-sport event last year at the Portland Triathlon. It took a lot of dedication, training, and guts to make it up to, and through, that day. The mental challenges were as bad as, if not worse than, the physical component. You may not remember, but my two brother-in-laws and myself were supposed to compete together, but I was the only one that made it to the event as they both broke…
The Leadman Tri in Bend is features three distances in 2014. As I have laid out before, the Leadman 250 is a 5K swim in Cultus Lake, a 223K bike course around Mount Bachelor, and a two-loop 22K running course around Tetherow Golf Course with a finish in NorthWest Crossing. The Leadman 125 cuts those distances in half. And the Leadman 85 will have participants completing a 1-kilometer swim, 75-kilometer bike and 8-kilometer run. The course maps…
