The Beginning: My name is Curtis Morley and I just signed up to be the Guinea Pig of year long experiment. The experiment is to see if Elevate Fitness, Runner’s Corner, and Fezzari/SBR Cycles can take an average guy like myself and turn him into a Triat...
Read moreLike I said in my very first post I am not yet what you would call a lean mean triathlon machine. Today was body fat testing and VO2 Max testing. Based on the InBody test they have at www.ElevateUtah.com. I have a little junk around the trunk. In my fi...
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4:50 a.m. – The SleepBot alarm on my phone starts singing to me. Because of the sleep deprivation from designing this blog late into the night, the normally pleasant music sounded like someone had backed up a dump truck full of broken concret...
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Because Elevate Fitness is closed for the Thanksgiving break (glad they are spending time with family) I decided to branch out and went swimming at VASA. Even though eLearning Brothers has corporate passes I’ve never been to the facilities. I was su...
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I missed the group for Plan7 this morning because I only had about 1 hour of sleep. For some reason I had the chills all night. Instead, I went to Elevate Fitness at night and set up the PerfStudio Pro to track my ride. It was a very different experience ...
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This morning was kind of surreal. It was as if I had walked into the “Great Athlete Hall of Fame.” Today is a swim day. I’m blessed to be coached by an amazing athlete and Ultramarathoner Marci Lamoreaux. I entered the pool area and wou...
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To most anyone with any type of experience in the pool (including my 12 year old son Isaac) today’s Victory will seem simplistic and mundane but, for me – TODAY ROCKED! Today was another swim day in my triathlon training. Last night I had told Iss...
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What an amazing month of training. Here is the summary so far: Swimming This has been the craziest adventure of all. It is what terrified me the most yet it is what I have made the most progress in. It is hard to believe that Coach Marci has me swimming l...
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Today was a swim and Gym day. It was awesome. Coach Marci had me doing some really fun drills in the endless pool and then Coach Shelby had me work on core with some other fun drills especially the Sledge Hammer (See Picture above) The best part about tod...
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Coach Marci is a fantastic swim coach. I am still struggling to tie all of the technical pieces together to make a good swim. Today I was out of energy easily. I’m sure this has something to do with the fact that I was woken up at 3:30 and then spe...
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