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June 6, 2017 Race Reports

Hills or Quit: Rev3 Quassy

How I fared after a two-year hiatus from triathlon There comes at least one point in every race where I

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May 30, 2017 Journal

Race season begins

One week until my first triathlon of the year It’s been a long time coming. This coming Sunday, I will race

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April 17, 2017 Journal

About my Crushing Iron podcast guest appearance

Filling the void When I was in high school, I usually came home to an empty house after school. To

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March 18, 2017 Journal

Guts

Learning how to listen to the body I woke up last Friday night to the most awful feeling in my stomach.

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March 10, 2017 Journal

Training together alone

Searching for community in a solo sport I haven’t read Bowling Alone but I get the basic premise: we don’t socialize

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March 2, 2017 Journal

Three knee surgeries later

Or, how I got hooked on triathlon It took three. The New York University Medical Center is a sprawling facility

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February 24, 2017 Journal

I’m training for an Ironman

But why? There are a lot of reasons not to do an Ironman. The reasons not to do an Ironman

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February 6, 2017 Race Reports

Racing just right

The Goldilocks theory of a successful race There are two types of races: those that hurt and those you don’t

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February 5, 2017 Journal

Go Hard or Go Home

So it begins Late last summer, I decided to register for the next iteration of IronmanWisconsin which will take place in

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November 10, 2016 Uncategorized

One day

Jennifer Saltzstein was my wife and my best friend. She passed away twenty-five weeks ago — nearly half a year. We had

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My wife passed away in 2016. I’m raising our son while learning to live with loss. I also turned to triathlon and now I train everyday to go faster and farther. Here is where I tell my story.
– Ross Kaffenberger

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