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...
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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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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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Last night I got another wild hair. Coach Marci wanted me to bike and swim yesterday. Because of the CLOXchange conference and the running group was counting on me I decided to run and swim yesterday and save the biking for today. So, I decided to switch ...
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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 amazing. We are back in the endless pool at Elevate doing some drills. Marci has me focusing on all different functions of the stroke. Marci dials in the current between 600-800. I’m feeling stronger than ever and more importantly I’...
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Today was a Swim and Run day. It started with time in the endless pool at Elevate Fitness. Yesterday was such a great day for progress. Today, not so much. Coach Marci was there, as always, and like usual we started by just practicing swimming for several...
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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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