Michael Phelps fans are celebrating what the “Flying Fish” accomplished last week during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Watching one individual take on that schedule and come out of it with eight gold medals is historical. As I watched the coverage before, during, and after each swim at the Water [...]

The 2008 Olympics are easy to relate to if you’re an athlete of any kind…
If you’re like me, you were keeping tabs on Michael Phelps’ amazing run at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. While I’m only a “swimmer” when it comes to triathlons I found myself really getting into more of the other swimming events, [...]

The Olympic Marathon is the only race in which the runners with the fastest times in the world will not win the race. As has happened many times in history, a person who is not well known stands a very good chance to win the race.
If a person could have foreseen [...]