For the last 12 weeks it’s been a challenge working from home. I work from a home office, and my wife, Laura, has been home on maternity leave, along with our newborn daughter, Penelope. I’m lucky to have the flexibility and freedom that working from home affords, but over the last three months there hasn’t been much working. It has …
We’re barely 24 hours post-Glen Arbor Solstice and I’m already knee-deep in another round of Ironman 70.3 Traverse City meetings. Bike aid station 1 During this round of meetings, we’re finalizing aid station locations for the bike and run courses, resident notification pieces, traffic impact notices, and traffic control signage.
I know we’re not quite at the summer solstice, but we’re only a few days away. I was out running this evening around 10:30 after a long day. The sky had been cloudless all afternoon and through sunset at 9:30. The cloudless sky and late sunset coupled with a rising full moon made it so bright, and I thought about …
My all time favorite run in Traverse City is without a doubt McKinley Loop. The six mile loop starts at Traverse City Central High School and heads east down Eastern Ave. Then heads north (left) on Birchwood (also known as East Shore Rd.) and goes all the way out to McKinley Rd. When you hit McKinley you’re at about 2.5 …
For the first five or so years that Endurance Evolution was in existence, most of the knowledge of the business was in my head, and very little was written down in terms of operational procedures or processes. As time went on, I realized that I needed to be able to hire others to help out, and I needed to be …
By the time athletes step up to the starting line at a triathlon, cycling event, or running race, months (or years) of planning has taken place to design the course they are about to undertake. As a racer one might not think about all the minor details of why a course is designed a certain way. Course design is one …
It started with an email from an athlete that had participated in a local triathlon I operate and race direct. He asked me if I would be willing at all to get on a call with him to discuss the possibility of bringing and Ironman 70.3 race to our town, Traverse City. As an owner and operator of a small …