Tomorrow I am racing at the Des Moines ITU world cup triathlon which has the largest prize purse in the history of triathlon with over 1million dollars split men and women with 200k going to the winners of each. Coming off such a strong last weekend I hope to replicate the effort and have a better swim to start the …

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All good tours start with coffee! Off for our “recovery” tour run. The White House, it isn’t so big, it fits behind my head. Or is my head that big??? Me squishing ??George Washington’s?? head at the US Treasury. My try at being artistic with the Washington Monument.

After a bit of a nightmare of a swim: dive in, goggles flip off, breast stroke, 10 strokes, goggle fills up, empty goggle, blow arms to pieces trying to catch up, just catch up to the back of the race when I run into one of many swaths of branches, leaves, logs, garbage etc in this dirty river we a …

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