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Tips and Tactics

F*%K THAT, Friday!

Posted on October 26, 2012 by beyonddefeat

Last night (having beers with Abbe and Claire) an idea came to mind… if a blog is so full of race reports and serious triathlon stuff, shouldn’t it also have some fun rants about life to add balance to it’s content? Totally! I give you, ‘F*%K THAT, Friday!’ a commentary on stupid and annoying things

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The Cure for Pain

Posted on April 26, 2012 by beyonddefeat

Moments ago I was listening to the band Morphine’s ‘Cure for Pain’ and started laughing out loud. I’m about to run my second marathon in under 2 weeks and it seems that I am ‘looking for pain’ not it’s cure. Most of you reading are some form of an athlete whether you consider yourself one

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On Fear

Posted on July 28, 2011 by beyonddefeat

What are you afraid of? I have spent a lot of time thinking about fear these past few months, especially after watching my father pass away right in front of me with nothing I could do to stop it. Was I afraid of dying? Was he? Surely he had thought about it, knowing that it

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Product Review: MuscleCare

Posted on July 8, 2011 by beyonddefeat

I don’t often use pain relievers, but I was recently offered a chance to test a product called MuscleCare. It came in 2 forms, one was your typical gel and the other (my personal favorite) was a roll-on! So… first things first, I needed to put myself in some serious pain. I geared up and

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How I became a Runner.

Posted on May 9, 2011 by beyonddefeat

Due to some documents that have recently been revealed, it seems that my claim of only being a runner for the last 3 years to be false. The following transcript was published in 1988, when I was only 11 and paints a dramatic account of my running abilities.   —– Hi, my name is Chris

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Baker’s ‘Race Burritos’

Posted on November 29, 2010 by beyonddefeat

By now most people have heard of and hopefully come to terms with the fact that I eat ‘Race burrito’ during any distance race over a Half Mary. I started this nutrition tactic during the Knickerbocker 60K last year when I was freaking out over how I would survive the race. It worked that day

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