Wow, it's July already. Here in the magical (and rather busy) land known as Team Clif Bar, it can be tough to keep track of all that's going on this time of year.

In the ongoing madness there is, however, one thing I'm certain of - over the holiday weekend, here at TCB we will be grilling way more meat and drinking far more sangria than a number of the TCB athletes who will be hard at work busting their butts at some bigtime races. On Sunday July 4th TCB triathlete Chris

A few weeks back Team Clif Bar triathlete Meredith Kessler sent an email asking for some bars and BLOKS to help her prep for Ironman Coeur d'Alene. Knowing that both she and fellow TCB pro Linsey Corbin would be racing in Idaho, I issued a challenge: "You guys will have to finish 1-2 or we will be forced cut you both from the program." We play hardball here in the TCB pod.