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• Discipline...

  
  Probably wasn’t a good idea to make a coffee/hot chocolate/rum concoction after 8pm tonight! Lying in bed for a while now, I think I might have slept a little, but got to thinking and decided to sit-up and write a blog post, first one in quite some time!
  
  I have been trying to decide the past couple of days if I should enter the Columbia Multisport Club’s "Biggest Loser" contest that starts at the end of the year. Most people who see me wouldn’t think I need to or that I would ev...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:11:00 +0000
  
  

• Running with Lance – Austin Half marathon recap

  
  
  

  Found myself in Austin Texas on February 20th ready to run a half marathon. Ha...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:12:00 +0000
  
  

• Run Toto Run – 10 Mile Race Report

  
  

  With all the snow we got here in Columbia, MO the past few weeks, I had a pretty good idea that this 10 mile trail race was going to be a little snowy! When we started getting emails from the race director about the snow, I knew for sure it was going to be bad... It was bad, but bad can be fun sometimes!

  Nine o’clock race start, so the temperature was starti...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:41:00 +0000
  
  

• Froze Nose and Nut Race recaps...

  
  

  I guess it is appropriate that I write a recap for these two races together as they were both run under less than ideal conditions. The night before Froze Nose I stuck screws in my shoes for traction for the first time. The morning of the Nut Race I added screws back to the same shoes to replace ones I had lost, plus some additional screws as there were 2 or 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground that we would be racing through! So both these races were definite winter events!...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:47:00 +0000
  
  

• Story behind the 4:49 mile... and is it legit?

  
  
  July 4th of 2009 I went to Jefferson City and ran the Firecracker mile with the goal of breaking 5 minutes. The previous month, my friend Adam Beston and I had come up with a list of athletic goals we want to accomplish, what I'm now calling my "athletic bucket list".
  
  
  - Sub 3 hour marathon
  - Sub 1:20:00 half marathon
  - Sub 1:00:00 10 miles
  - Sub 35:00 10k
  - Sub 17:00 5k
  - Sub 1 hour 40k bike
  - Sub 1:00 10...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:41:00 +0000
  
  

• 2010 Year in Review

  
  

  Here we are, almost a month into 2011 and I still haven’t written my annual year in review! Guess I ought to get on the ball... For 2009 I wrote a fairly lengthy review: http://triathleteguru.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-year-in-review.html I think I will be briefer and more to the point this year, focusing strictly on my year of racing.

  The year began as normal with se...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:38:00 +0000
  
  

• Dogwood Canyon 25k Trail Run 10/31/2010

  
  I ran my first 25k trail race at the Rockbridge Revenge 25k back at the beginning of October, had a blast, it was an awesome event. I figured I would like it; after all, my favorite place to run is an eight mile loop at Rockbridge. Rockbridge is familiar; I run it all the time, Dogwood Canyon not so familiar! I had heard about the race sometime at the beginning of the year, kind of forgotten about it. But following RB Revenge I remembered, signed up, and now here I am on race day morning, ready ...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:18:00 +0000
  
  

• New York Marathon and Serena Burla

  
  For anyone that didn't know this, the New York Marathon is this Sunday. There are some pretty big name Americans running, Ritz, Meb, and it is the marathon debut for Shalane Flanagan who is expected to do well. Somebody a little less known, but who's story is very inspiring is Serena Burla. I first saw Serena (a Mizzou graduate) back in 2005 when I was running the Columbia Half Marathon. I was running with Stephen Taylor, we were only a mile or so in and probably running around 6:30 pace, when S...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:52:00 +0000
  
  

• Lance Armstrong...

  
  He just rode his last Tour... Granted, we all thought he was done back in 2005 after he won his 7th Tour De France and retired the first time. Heck, I though he was done back in 1996 when I first heard he had cancer. I've been a fan of Lance ever since 1993. You see, I was a huge fan of Greg Lemond and followed the Tour de France as a teenager through the late 80's and the early 90's. In 1993 Lance won a stage in the Tour and he also won the World Championships. Lance quickly became my new sport...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:00 +0000
  
  

• Topeka Tinman Race Report

  
  Wasn't really expecting much going into this race. Training has been suspect as of late, the tri bike hadn't even been touched since Triple T! I still haven't written race reports from those races yet, but in the races with biking following the long swims, I felt really uncomfortable to be in the aero position. I forgot that I needed some time in the aero position, it wouldn't take long on the bike to remember! But I'm getting ahead on myself...
  
  Got home from work a little later than ...
  
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  Published by Tony Rigdon on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:49:00 +0000