I’d like the opportunity to balance your view of my experimentations. After all, I was experiencing more vitality than before for most of the 8months before my freak.

Xterra East Championships, Richmond ,VA 2nd 1h47’39 – 71 seconds behind winner Conrad Stoltz

I get frustrated analyzing the load different athletes seem able to respond positively to. Cumulative load that exceeds anything I’ve ever done; more training volume, worse eating habits, lacking supplementation, super stress to perform. But the reality seems I am less robust and my margin for error demands more delicate care than for most. This [...]

How to condense the fullness of life’s bitter sweet tides into words without missing the detail that makes life worth living. That sense of feeling. I am not training excessively, not blogging often, but I have been feeling.

(Nils Nilsen: “2010 July Issue of Triathlete Magazine. Concept to styling to shooting, this is my cover and I think my best yet! Dan Hugo is a great athlete and friend!”) The single most monumental media break I’ve been privileged with. Its an ocean of pride and excitement for me – mostly thanks to the [...]