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Chris McDonald

McDonald_mainAthlete Profile

 

 Age:  32
 Discipline:  Triathlon
 Category:  Ironman & IM 70.3
 Training Location:  Boulder, CO


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TRAINING TOOLS

SLHubJoule20  PowerBeamPro

Training and Racing

 

What are your most important power training metrics?

For me it is KJs and just watching my power dispersion over the whole event.

 

What are your goals for 2010?

Winning an Ironman is at the top of my list of goals for 2010. I have won an Ironman race each year since 07 and I would like to keep this streak alive!

 

What are you pre-event rituals?

They tend to change from year to year. I will be honest.  I think the only real thing I do every race is chill and watch tv for a couple hours before i go to bed.

 

What is your favorite pre-event meal?

The night before I go with fried chicken!!  I tried in it Kentucky in 07 and have rolled with it since.  Race morning it is a small bowl of oats and two eggs.

 

What is your favorite post-event meal?

Salty, greasy food and a big bag of candy!

 

What is your greatest achievement/proudest moment in your sport?

I think my proudest thing is being consistent.  I have raced 25 professional Ironmans and have 22 top 10 placing and 15 top 5 finishes with 3 wins.

 

What is your favorite race?

I love to race on cool courses.  I love New Zealand, Roth, Madison, Louisville, etc...

 

For Fun

 

What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

Astro Boy

 

What is your favorite training song?

Weird as it sounds...good country music.

 

What is your guilty pleasure?

Ice cream

 

What do you do when you’re not training?

I  am a self confessed TV addict.  I just like to switch my mind off and watch mindless TV.

 

What did you want to be when you grew up?

An architect.

 

Blog Entries

October 4, 2010

Chris McDonald is a decorated CycleOps Powered professional triathlete that started his professional racing career in April 2004. He trains and races with the SL+ hub, Joule 2.0 cycling computer, and PowerBeam Pro trainer. Chris splits his time between Boulder, Colorado and Albury, NSW in Australia.

 

We asked our Facebook Fans what questions they had for Chris about training with power, and we partnered with SimplyStu to put together a video of his answers. Download the video from simplystu.com or watch it on iTunes.

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June 15, 2009

by Chris McDonald


The Rockman Half in Rockford Illinois on June 8 was week one of the double. [ed. note: Chris raced Eagleman 70.3 this pastweekend]. On all accounts my travel to the race was very uneventful, and I arrived in Rockford on Friday afternoon for a Sunday race. The weather man was telling me 75 and sunny for the weekend...well, Saturday it rained 60% of the day, and then Sunday was not a whole lot better.


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