It all started with my younger daughter letting us know she wanted to go on a South East Asia trip in the fall. My knee jerk reaction was “There is no way you’re going alone……I’m going with you!”. A few days later it was time to spin the wheel and decide on our...
It’s been a few months since my last post and/or book update. Good news on both fronts. Had a crazy race adventure worth writing up so here goes. Oh, the book is finally here, well kind of. Info at the end of this post. Not sure why I don’t blog more about IRONMAN...
I normally blog about physical adventures like mountaineering and triathlons. Last weekend I had an incredible mental adventure that I wanted to share. It all started when I started reading a book a few months ago called the Silva Mind Control Method. I was always a...
It's been a while since my last post. I've been pretty busy with my advisory business as well as my book project. Speaking of which, I'll provide a quick update on that first before getting into Ultraman. Nothing goes as quickly as one would like. I thought the...
The writing for my upcoming book is FINALLY done!! The manuscript writing that is 🙂 What's a manuscript? I didn't know either. It's basically the raw version of ~50,000 words that will ultimately be molded into a published book. Next is the editing process. I knew...
Everything about the IM World Championship was world class. I’ve raced at over a dozen Ironman venues, all are great, some are excellent, but this one tops them all. If Kona is on your bucket list, leave it on there and continue to strive to add this race to your list...
Aloha from Kailua-Kona Hawaii!! Hard to believe but PIVKON is finally here. 10 hours until the cannon goes off and 11 hours before I hit the water for a little 140.6 miles of racing. On September 13, 2009 I learned about something called Ironman and about their...
Getting closer...Pivnik’s Kona dream (PIVKON) is next week! Flights, hotels, connecting flights, Airbnb, cars all booked, rebooked, double and triple checked. We finally go wheels up on Wednesday which will give me a week to acclimatize to the heat and humidity of...
PIVKON-2 for any new readers is short for Pivnik's (me) Kona Dream - 2 weeks out 🙂 This post will cover two weeks because some Sunday travel got in the way of writing last week. Speaking of getting in the way... really starting to get anxious and nervous about the...
August is finally in the books! With the main event only 759 hours away I put in a very solid effort last month biking 480 miles, running 77 miles and swimming just under 15 miles total. Thats a 60+ hr month which is a 50% increase over July. Yay....my training cost...