Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Friends, Family, and Fools! Tamir, Raanan and I have completed the Israman 1/2 Ironman.  The complete recap of the race will come tomorrow but I wanted to give you some photos and commentary in the meanwhile. Wetsuit fun – From left to right : My mom , Me , Tamir. My parents came all the [...]

. My birthday week started with a Surprise Party at Lehman Brothers TLV – what a sucker, didn’t even smell it coming… Great party, Great wishes (including a creative & touching one from the iron couple Gissatenu & Gissenu…) and great presents. But my real* present, is waiting for me in Eilat – my half [...]

First of all, I need to begin with a tribute to Igal. I met Igal before the Tel-Aviv triathlon a couple of years ago (See post from In Anatshell) when he saved my life in the true triathlon sense of the word. He is Nina Pekerman’s (Triathlete) bike mechanic and he became mine as well. [...]

- Flights to Bangkok – CONFIRMED – Flights to Samui – CONFIRMED – Hotels Samui & Pangan – CONFIRMED – Baby sitting – CONFIRMED 7 days to Israman, 9 days to sawadika!…

Lets get busy. It’s taper time until the 29th of January and that means one thing – Stop eating so much! It also means something else; It means that it’s time to start thinking about what the I’m going to do during the race. It’s time to contemplate the swim, bike and run. It’s time [...]

The description of this ride is being carefuly edited and puctuated by Raanan as we speak. In the meantime, here is the video of our ride on Saturday. We rode 130km and then ran 45 minutes . Ba Ktana (In the small; no big deal) This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy [...]

In the past few days I have been going through a dilemma on the size of my Crank and Cassette. What is the best ratio for hills, for flats, for a long distance, for …. Today I am getting installed a compact Shimano FC-R700 (ultegra) 50/34 with a 170mm crank. I originally had an SL-K [...]

This past Saturday, the 9th, Anat and I joined Amos (see Anat’s bike fitting) on his team ride. We were impressed to be riding along with 20 other riders some of which are experienced iron distance triathletes. It was a freezing cold morning and we were not properly dressed but the sun shined upon us [...]

You may or may not know that we weren’t officially listed on the Ironman Brazil website until yesterday. As a matter of fact, Israel wasn’t even listed as a country in the drop down list. We committed to Issta and patiently waited for instructions. When I say patiently, I obviously mean that we took turns [...]

Anat turned to experimental nutrition and with that in mind we purchased a new blender. My shake contained much more interesting and appealing components to it: chocolate milk, yogurt, bananas, dates, and peanut butter. Anat’s shake had a more conservative approach: yogurt, milk, blueberries, and cherries. The result……………. Hers came out better This video was [...]