I was lucky enough to be one of the experts asked to lend some triathlon advice for another blog post over at www.inspiremewell.com.

As many of you know, I am the co-host and producer of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. Ben and I sat down and recorded the show together (for only the second time ever) a decided to Spreecast the whole thing as well.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being asked to write a guest blog post by a former athlete of mine, Lisa Belanger, who is also one of the authors of the book Inspire Me Well. As I started writing, I realized that I was actually creating a list of things I had personally overlooked on occasion.

This is an edited version of a "Lightning Talk" Brock Skywalker Armstrong gave at the Business of Software Conference in October 2012. Brock is a musician, web developer and digital media instructor turned personal trainer, marathon and triathlon coach. To fund his Triathlon & Marathon racing habit, he takes well planned designs and turns them into clean, consistent and responsive HTML and CSS code. Find out more by going to www.frozenpuck.com and/or www.skywalkerfitness.ca.

If you read my Laguna Phuket Triathlon race report, you already know that I DNF-ed this race. DNF means Did Not Finish... which isn't exactly accurate in this case. More like Did Not Middle. By that I mean that I had a great swim and a decent run but I only made it 20km into the ride before my rental bike's back brakes, the torrential downpour and my dampened spirits (pun intended) made me turn back. Needless to say - I was bummed.

Biggest take away lesson from this race: Don't rent a bike you plan to race with in Thailand. If you do, don't expect it to have brakes. If you do, you will likely end up in a ditch... or worse. Luckily, I have a series of priorities that have kept me safe throughout the 50+ races I have raced in the last 5ish years.