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Andrew Hodges Patient Expert

I'm a materials engineer/electrochemist who works for NASA while moonlighting as a professional triathlete.
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Apr30-May13 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon Apr30-May6 S: 25,300 yds B: 5h 10min R: 4h 42min Total: 16h 26min May7-13 S: 24,200 yds B: 4h 9min R: 3h 44min Total: 14h 12min Two for one! ... Read on »
New Orleans Nonsense by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon So I raced in New Orleans last Sunday. Or at least had the intention of racing a triathlon but ended up stumbling through a quasi-duathlon. The New Orleans 70.3 turned ... Read on »
Apr2-8 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 25,300 yds B: 7h 21min R: 3h 58min Total: 17h 36min Ouch. It was a pretty busy week, both at "real" work and here in the "other" office. The result was a f ... Read on »
Mar26-Apr1 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 25,800 yds B: 6h 12min R: 4h 8min Total: 17h 41min Pretty solid week! Lets see... there was another fast track workout on Tuesday, a 4min power PR on the b ... Read on »
Mar19-25 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 24,700yds B: 6h 13min R: 4h 12min Total: 16h 53min Wow... other than the pollen, the weather here has been awesome. I dont necessarily want to give it all ... Read on »
Mar12-18 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 19,400yds B: 6h 37min R: 4h 8min Total: 16h Another weekend, another race. But who can turn down a free 10 miler? Saturday I ran the Rocket Run Ten Miler i ... Read on »
Mar5-11 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 20,400 yds B: 6h 41min R: 5h 14min Total: 16h 56min Glad to have that one out of the way! That was probably the hardest week of the year thus far, but I'm ... Read on »
Feb27-Mar4 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 18,400 yds B: 5h 59min R: 5h 46min 16h 59min Another week, a few more VO2 workouts in the bag. Oh yeah, and then there was that race yesterday, the UAH 10k ... Read on »
Feb20-26 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 18,800 yds B: 6h 4min R: 5h 24min Total: 16h 48min Back at it! The week before last was interrupted a bit by my trip up to New York/New Jersey for the annu ... Read on »
Mercedes Half RR by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon High level summary: I have had better days. Quite a few of them, in fact. Fitness, as far as I can tell, wasn't a problem. Indeed, I actually think it was/is pretty good, a ... Read on »
Race schedule! by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon With the first race of the season coming up this weekend, I suppose its about time to post a race schedule! These are certainly subject to change, especially the out months ... Read on »
Jan30-Feb5 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 23,800 yds B: 5h 23min R: 4h 18min Total: 16h 6min Back at it! Another week of FAST swimming, biking, and running. Well, trying to be fast, at least. If no ... Read on »
Jan23-29 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 20,200 yds B: 5h R: 3h 24min Total: 13h 58min Fun times, indeed, last week. This was a "recovery" week, which meant no hard Tuesday brick or Thursday track ... Read on »
Jan16-22 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 29,300 yds B: 5h 46min R: 4h 54min Total: 18h 55min BOOM. I had a great week of training, but did learn some things, the most important being that I'm old ... Read on »
Jan9-15 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 28,600 yds B: 5h 11min R: 4h 18min Total: 17h 8min Whew! I'm definitely starting to feel the grind of training, but I'm also adapting pretty well, as I was ... Read on »
Jan2-8 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 28,900 yds B: 4h 40min R: 3h 51min Total: 15h 50min Well, the first week of hard training is in the books, although its not so much "hard" as it is "FAST". ... Read on »
Dec19-25 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 22,800 yds B: 4h 24min R: 3h 38min Total: 12h 50min Happy New Year! After spending a week down in Orlando, its back to the grind here in the 'ville, but no ... Read on »
Dec12-18 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 22,000 yds B: 5h 3min R: 3h 4min Total: 13h 7min Week number two is in the books, and so far, so good. The volume is still pretty low, but I had a really s ... Read on »
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon So I might as well cut to the chase. The "big change" I alluded to in my previous post involves coaching. Paulo and I are parting ways, and this season I'm looking forward ... Read on »
Dec5-11 by Andrew Hodges Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Triathlon S: 16,600 yds B: 4h 32min R: 4h 50min Total: 12h 41min Welcome to 2012! After the annual hiatus, its back to real training. 2011 was, admittedly, a tough ... Read on »