Occupation - Environmental Scientist

Years in Triathlon - May 2000 was my start, Evanston Triathlon. I was not involved in Endurance Sports before then.

Favorite Discipline? - Favorite discipline is the bike, although, it’s the one that scares me the most. There are so many things outside your control on the bike that can affect your performance. You can get a flat, drop a chain, crash, not consume the proper nutrition, etc, and it will completely kill your race. But it’s also the dicipline where I feel I’m nearly as fast as the non-Clydesdale age groupers my age. Especially when I’m not climbing. So, the bike is a tale of good and bad for me. Lots of anxiety, but also lots of catching and passing going on as well.

Pre-race rituals - . . . I don’t seem to have anything consistently regular, other than I generally consume a gel before I enter the water, take my time putting on the wetsuit, and try to find someone I know to fist bump before I take off. Honestly, my pre-race rituals change pretty much every race.

Favorite “Local” Race - . . . other than BAM (Rob’s the Race Director). . . would be Spudman. Most Memorable would be Jordanelle 2001. It was so cold at the start, we had to wait for some two hours after the swim start for the fog to clear and temps to warm up enough to melt the ice on our bikes.

Being a Race Director is… - Being a race director is a very difficult way to give something back to the sport I love. It’s entirely rewarding, but also very difficult. It’s much easier to pay my money and show up to race.

Training time has become a premium now that I am in the full swing of race directing. Time spent working on race details takes a lot of time out of my day. Forces me to train late at night or lunch time. I think all race directors love to race, so we all have trouble getting out to train enough to satisfy our needs.

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