tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327108666765196898.post5199031012707235143..comments2023-06-08T05:09:14.594-04:00Comments on The Ramblings of an Endurance Junkie: Over and done with - the first "Brick" of the yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327108666765196898.post-26915404888955864192008-03-07T17:27:00.000-05:002008-03-07T17:27:00.000-05:00Iain,All are true except "b". Zag and I coined the...Iain,<BR/><BR/>All are true except "b". Zag and I coined the term. We had finished a 100 mile ride and a 10 mile run (which had been part of my training for 6 years already) and Zag said, "coach, I feel like a brick." From there I suggested that the best way to get through the "wall" was to make a hole pulling out one brick at a time. It took about 12 bricks to make a hole big enough to get through an actual wall as well as our metaphorical wall in a race. B.R.I.C. was a useful anagram we also settled on.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I first wrote about the brick in Triathlete Magazine in 1988 and then in my book "Training and Racing Duathlons" in 1989. Matt Brick had nothing to do with it.<BR/><BR/>Only bring this up because a buddy linked the question to me earlier today. I don't have many legacies in triathlon, so I need to preserve this one.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>MarkMark Sissonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004297151379581461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327108666765196898.post-86054967644134834102008-03-07T14:10:00.000-05:002008-03-07T14:10:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com