Rooted

It’s not often that we take the cameras out and strap them onto our bikes while riding.  But the other day I figured, why not?  I want to [...]

Friday morning at CrossFit LA our workout was 6 hill sprints on a 5 minute interval.  Easy, right?  I approach life most crossfit workouts with a student’s mind [...]

  Or, the “serious problem of sensational editorial in sports nutrition?” The other day a good friend and fellow endurance athlete shared a link on the Rooted Facebook page [...]

  About three weeks ago my buddy Ryan asked me if I’d race the 2-man 8 hour Hammerstein mountain bike race with him on what I thought was [...]

  Racers are a special breed, a subset of athletes.  There is no doubt that racing requires a unique mentality.  It only took a few years of being [...]

  About a month or so ago I started working out at CrossFit LA.  Though I haven’t gotten around to writing why I started CrossFit, I will say [...]

The triathlon season can be long, especially in warm weather states where you can pretty much race 12 months a year.  Laying out your season with a clear [...]

Do you ever wonder how many calories you burn while running, swimming, cycling?  How about taking out the trash, truck driving, bathing your dog or bird watching?  Well [...]

1.  Have a plan, and know what will go wrong Something will go wrong in your race.  Accept it.  Knowing what can and will go wrong while competing [...]

After training for an event for weeks or months, once the gun goes off, there is nothing left to do but “go.”  Racing is often over-simplified in all [...]