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My First Bicycle Workout

This was before I began competing again but I was looking for a new athletic pursuit.  I had a decent Trek bike, nothing fancy, but I rode it like it was built for the Tour.  I’d only use it on leg days and push as hard as possible – at this time I was still [...]

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The Cost Of Winning

The realization that praise was openly given to winners was not completely new to me.  I had long loved the football teams the Pittsburgh Steelers and their rivals the Dallas Cowboys.  At the time the Cowboys personified the All American team, patriotic and good looking too.  Everything I wanted to be.  On the other side [...]

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Memories And Long Term Friendships

Memories And Long Term Friendships

I am still friends with a couple of the guys from back in the day, Frank Kish is now the Director of Tech for Lockheed Martin, Ray Campisi and Vinson Keyhea.  I had always been interested in exploring and discovery.  As a kid we used to trek through a secret location we had found “Shark [...]

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Reinforcing The Foundation – My Formal Training Introduction

I continued to improve in my Spartan gym along with swimming in the wolf river, weekend hikes through the woods and swamps but I new I needed to advance.  I moved from my homemade gym to a place called Rhodes Fitness Center in Gulfport Mississippi.  It was here that I found out what real strength [...]

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Stolen Strength – Homemade Tools Of The Trade

I pasted pictures on the walls of the shed, pictures of every exercise I had seen from the magazines.

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Overcoming and Achieving
 Setting records and winning competitions while living with Type 1 Diabetes

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