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Final long run before New York Marathon

Posted on October 11, 2015December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Jan Frodeno of Germany and Daniela Ryf of Switzerland won the Ironman World Championships in the men’s and women’s divisions today. They were both incredible and won by comfortable margins. I was rooting for Mirinda Carfrae of Australia but she dropped out because of back spasms. Congratulations to Jan and Daniela! I followed the Ironman […]

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50 Ironmans in 50 days in 50 states – Impossible!

Posted on May 29, 2015December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

I ran intervals on the treadmill today. It’s not the funnest thing to do, but it was way too hot outside. An hour later, I had run 7.63 miles with 5 intervals of 8 minutes each – 5 minutes hard and 3 minutes easy for each interval. It’s done! Binita brought home a magazine from […]

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Is another Ironman in my future?

Posted on May 2, 2015December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

This morning, my left ankle hurt a bit worse than it did yesterday but by evening it was already starting to feel better. I’m quite sure it will be fine by Sunday. Needless to say, I rested today. It was about a year ago that I was hospitalized with all my medical issues. A year […]

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Tough winds at Ironman Arizona

Posted on November 17, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Congratulations to Meredith Kessler and Brent McMahon for winning Ironman Arizona 2014. Both had absolutely stellar performances in windy conditions. Although Ironman Arizona is considered one of the easier races, all Ironman races are tough. Sometimes, weather conditions make them tougher. It was a beautiful day in Tempte today, but winds picked up in the […]

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Ironman Arizona is on Sunday

Posted on November 15, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Ironman Arizona is on Sunday. There is a buzz in the air about in in Phoenix. I had lunch today at OHSO down on Indian School and saw a few athletes running on the canal with blue Ironman bands. There was at least one person in the restaurant wearing an Ironman shirt. I spoke to […]

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Some people are natural athletes

Posted on November 6, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Some people are just natural athletes. I recently met Elizabeth (through CJ) who did her first Ironman last year in Arizona in sub-12 hours. She had no formal training plan and no nutrition plan. She had no coach either. I toiled through 2013 for IMAZ only to drop out a week before the race; and […]

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Congratulations to Challenge Roth participants

Posted on July 21, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

I meant to post this image of my heart rate yesterday. This is from yesterday’s 10 mile run on the treadmill. I was slowly accelerating throughout the run (except the last 5 minutes); as you can see, my heart rate was following my speed. I averaged around 8:10 per mile for the entire run; which […]

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Kristi, Kristen and Mike at Challenge Roth

Posted on July 19, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

I didn’t realize that masters swim was off today at JCC. I went there and ended up swimming on my own for about a mile. This is my second consecutive swim that I felt good at. My speed, breathing and flips felt good and comfortable. Maybe after the rains over the past week, the air […]

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Ironman 70.3 Hawaii Visor

Posted on July 12, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Binita left for Michigan early this morning. She’ll be back on Tuesday. Will is in town this weekend so I expect to get together with Kristi and Will and maybe go out for some Indian food to relive memories of our India trip last year. My day started early after dropping Binita off and it […]

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Ironman Cabo official snap

Posted on June 27, 2014December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

There is a company called FinisherPix that sells Ironman snaps. At each race, they hire a few photographers to take pictures. They sell these pictures to participants at hefty prices. The prices start at around $25 per picture. There are hundreds of blogs complaining about the price of these pictures. I finally got around to […]

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