Charity/Community Projects Selection:  National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF), Strong Children's Hospital, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Personal:  John is 42 and single with an 8 year old son and two step sons ages 13 and 16.  John resides in Irondequoit.

Athletic Portfolio/Accomplishments:  John has been competing in triathlon since the spring of 1990. He first became interested in triathlon when a friend  mentioned a run-bike-canoe event. He participated in the event and winded up in third place in his age group.

He spent that winter learning to swim and participating in conventional triathlons in the following spring.

• Four Completed Ironman Distance Races:
• The Great Floridian - October 1998
• Ironman Lake Placid - August 1999
• Ironman Florida - November 2000
• Long Distance World Championships-
• Fredericia, Denmark - August 2001
• Proposed Ironman Distance Races:
• Ironman Florida - November 2002
• Ironman Lake Placid - July - 2003

John doesn't have any set mileage per week.  He maps a plan keyed on selected races each year.  The last several years he has focused on the Ironman distance events where he seems to feel better in the latter stages of the longer events (at least so far). This has resulted in a training regiment of working up to a final thirteen week push of training before the ironman distance event and then an extended period of r and r afterwards.

Equipment:  Ironman Fusion wetsuit, Stowe Terbo Air Conquest bicycle, ASICS running shoes.