Mad Anthony’s Musings
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Sometimes You Need to Take a Step Back to Move Forward
Full speed ahead is a command, not a default. After a few weeks of fighting fatigue and watching my Garmin body battery hover at 28, I had to remind myself that forward is the goal, not full speed. Sometimes forward looks like sitting still.
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The First Race Nobody Tells You About
Every first-time triathlete thinks they know what race they signed up for. They trained. They planned. They watched the finish line videos. Then the gun went off — and a completely different race started 150 yards in.
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How Much Are You Really Sweating? (And Why the Answer Changes Everything)
Most athletes have a hydration strategy. Most of it is guesswork. Sweat rate testing gives you an actual number to work with, and it takes about an hour. Here’s how to do it and why it matters more than you think.
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Why You’re Always Tired (And It’s Probably Not What You Think)
Beard Guy has been tired lately. Not the good kind of tired. The kind where you wake up from a full night’s sleep and immediately want to go back to bed. When sleep, blood sugar, and training load all show up at the same time, the answer is rarely one thing and never just “try…
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Diabetes Doesn’t Mean Low Carb. It Means Smart Carb
I raced a 70.3 on 60 grams of carbs. Total. For the entire race. I was a Type 2 diabetic following the only nutrition playbook I’d ever been given, and it nearly broke me at mile 10 of the run. Here’s what changed.
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I Thought I Just Didn’t Sleep
Beard Guy averaged 4 hours 32 minutes of sleep in 2026 and thought that was just how he was built. A sleep study said otherwise. 20.5 events per hour and a CPAP later, the data is finally moving.
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How Stress Kills Your Training (And What to Do About It)
You’re doing the workouts. Your nervous system has been under siege since Q4. Those two things are related.
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Why Smart Athletes Hire a Coach (And Why Beard Guy Did)
Most endurance athletes train longer and race slower over time. A coach sees the pattern you can’t, because you’re too busy running the plays to watch the film.
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The Health Habits That Make Your Training Work (But Don’t Show Up on Strava)
You’re tracking everything. Except the things that determine whether any of it works.