Author Archives: Steve

Happy Blood Cancer Awareness Month!

September is blood cancer awareness month. Blood cancers are cancers of the blood, bone marrow or lymph nodes that affect normal blood cell production or function. Today, nearly 1.3 million people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from, leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Blood cancer can affect anyone, at any time. There is [...]
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FDA Approves Immunotherapy for Blood Cancer Patients

Today heralds a new era in cancer treatment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new, cutting-edge gene therapy that reprograms a patient’s immune system to find and kill cancer cells. This highly personalized therapy known as Kymriah (previously CTL019 or tisagenlecleucel-T) signifies the promise of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) [...]
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Tommy John Ad Graphic

I recently helped out Tommy John by contributing to one of their ad graphics. Check out my “expert” tip below. And just who or what is Tommy John besides a retired baseball pitcher who has an elbow surgery named after him? Glad you asked. Visit tommyjohn.com for more.
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HOKA One Test Run

I just recently took my new pair of HOKA One’s out for a test spin. I saw HOKA burst onto the running and triathlon scenes a couple of years ago and my curiosity was piqued. While historically I have been somewhat a moderate to minimalist to a neutral shoe wearer, I had to check these [...]
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Good Day in Wildwood

Weather conditions were perfect as over a thousand athletes took to the beaches, roads, and boardwalk for the 14th running of the Tri the Wildwoods Triathlon produced by DelMoSports. This event had something for everyone offering a sprint and Olympic distance triathlon and aquabike, and even a 5K run and a kid’s splash and dash. [...]
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Tri the Wildwoods Triathlon

Up this weekend for me is the Tri the Wildwoods Triathlon in Wildwood New Jersey on Saturday. The race offers a few event options such as aquabike and triathlon in both sprint and Olympic distances As well as a 5k and a kids splash and dash race. I opted for the Olympic aquabike for a couple [...]
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New Brand Ambassador

I’m happy to announce that I was just offered a Brand Ambassadorship role with Pacific Health Labs, the makers of Accelerade, Endurox, and other awesome endurance  sports fuel. Stay tuned for cool things coming out of this relationship!
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Weekly Fit Tips

Fit and Fab(ric) Fit and fabric are important keys to your workout success. You’d be surprised what a difference wearing the right clothing will make. Choose something that has a breathable moisture wicking fabric and fits you properly. Choose function over style. You will feel better and if you feel better, and that can only lead [...]
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Ironman Lake Placid 70.3 Bib #24

This week the athlete bib #s were published for Ironman Lake Placid 70.3. There are a couple of thousand athletes registered for this race so I was pretty surprised to see that I was assigned #24. I’m not sure if these were assigned alphabetically or if those of us representing the Ironman Foundation were assigned [...]
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USA Triathlon Regional Council

Some of you may know  that I served on the USAT Mid-Atlantic Regional Council from 2006-2015. I’m happy to say that after a couple of heart to heart conversations with Council Chair and good buddy Rob Vigorito, I’ve accepted an offer to come back. There are some cool things happening here in the area  and [...]
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