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NVDM Coach & Pro Triathlete
📍Austin, Texas
2025 Waco 70.3 Champ🏆
2 x 140.6 World Champ Qualified
@varlo.apparel @rudyproject @rokamultisport

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Cancelled swim (2nd time this year). Was a little disappointed but, also glad I didnt have to swim in the Brazos! Bike PR by 3ish mins but, did cramp on the bike a little. Overall, effort felt similar to my earlier races. The run started off good (and kept it controlled) but the cramps came early and wasnt able to hold pace. Overall, PR (bike+run) but, more work to do! This was also my 3rd TX 70.3 race. Am I done for the year? Maybe not 🤪

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Time always tells

Ironman Waco 70.3 in the books (69.1😏). Shoutout to the best coach in the game @tri.willwatson & @nvdmcoaching for helping me get across the finish line 🫡

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What a beautiful celebration of all the discipline, hard work, and countless hours that went into getting here!!🤍

I’m beyond grateful for all of my friends and family who supported me on race day and throughout this entire training journey. It truly takes a village, and I felt so loved every step of the way.

Thank you @oz.tography for encouraging me to sign up in the first place, training alongside me, and making this whole experience so much more fun. And, of course, for absolutely CRUSHING these photos!!

@matthewpassini — thank you for always believing in me, supporting every crazy goal, and being my biggest fan. 🤍

And thank you @tri.willwatson for being the best coach and getting me to that finish line!!

Waco 70.3 (69.1) 🤠
5:04 finish
18th in my division!!

Can’t wait to share more pictures because this will be my entire personality for at least the next week!!

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What an amazing weekend! We went out there and did what we said we were going to do!

What made it even better is that we got to do it surrounded and supported by so many people that wanted to see us succeed. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for all the support i received from friends and strangers.

I can’t wait to share more about this experience.

Ironman Waco 69.1-4:51:48

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Ironman Waco 70.3 (3hrs 50 minutes). 2nd age group and 17th overall finisher. World Championship Qualifier (Chatty bound! 🚂). We keep moving the right direction!

Couldn’t ask for a better day! We got so lucky with the break in the weather and got to race without a ton of rain on the bike. The swim was canceled, which I’m sure most people didn’t mind 🤣

2hr 14 bike
1hr 34 run

Next up - running season! Time to get my running on point. Tucson Marathon + Austin Marathon coming up next.

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WACO WIN 2025

It’s Waco 70.3 race week and I can’t help but to look back on last year’s race

FIRST. @tri.willwatson won and claimed his Pro Card. Will and I moved to Austin in 2022 both with no real game plan other than go after our visions and make it work. His was to become a Professional Triathlete. I was the one who picked Will up from the airport when he moved (we had texted once) and he gave me chocolates as a thank you (how romantic). Capturing this moment of his moment is one of the highlights of my career

SECOND. Waco 2025 is where it really hit me that THIS is what I want to do. I spent years confused on what I wanted to do and that day it all just clicked for me. I loved being behind the camera and it was going to become my full-time job

📸I’ll be covering over 80 (yes, I know… wild) @nvdmcoaching athletes at Waco 70.3 this weekend. Pumped.

WELCOME TO TEXAS🤠

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As we head into fall marathon, triathlon, and road racing season, I want you to take this one quote with you:

“Achievement is just a moment in pencil unless you can share it with the people you care about. Then it becomes real, a memory in permanent ink.”

It’s easy to get caught up in the time, the watts, the pace, the placing, the PR, the podium.

And those things can be really damn cool.

But don’t let the pursuit of a result make you miss the reason you started in the first place.

Look around on race day.
Notice the people standing on the side of the road.
The friends who trained with you.
The family who listened to you talk about the race for six months.
The stranger who yelled your name when you needed it most.

Because one day, you probably won’t remember the exact split.

You’ll remember who was there.

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70.3 Worlds Race Recap 🇫🇷#ironman703worldchampionship #nvdmcoaching

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Little late posting! Training ride to Eze with the NVDM crew. Eze had its own special climb but dam its going to be hard going back to Texas after this week. #nicecyclingparadise #nvdmcoaching #ironman703worldchampionship

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This is truly hard to put into words. I am beyond grateful for the honor and privilege to write the foreword for @ironmanvoice new book, “Finding Your Finish Line” This book is not just for athletes but for anyone and everyone needing inspiration in their life.

For more than three decades, Mike has stood at finish lines witnessing humanity at its rawest. He has called over 450,000 athletes across the line and been the voice behind some of the most emotional moments in sports. But what makes Mike different is that he never made those moments about himself. He made them about the person crossing the line.

That same humility pours through every page of this book.

It is a book about resilience. Grit. Purpose. Faith. Family. Loss. Reinvention. And the deeply human desire to become something greater than our circumstances. You do not have to be an IRONMAN to understand it. You just have to be human.

To have my name inside a book alongside the icons and legends Mike has shared the finish line with is something I will never take for granted.

Comment “finish line” below and I will send you the link to grab your copy today. Your story is not over. Your finish line is still waiting for you.

#ironman #findingyourfinishline #triathlon #inspiration

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Did someone say it’s almost time to turn up?

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Last Year’s Winners strike again!

HTC 2026 DONE!

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