# Colin Lord.com
> I'm a software engineer who also happens to get up during the 5 a.m. hour to moonlight as a triathlete before work.
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## Pages
- [About Me](https://colinlord.com/about.md)
- [Blog](https://colinlord.com/blog.md)
- [Home](https://colinlord.com/home.md) - Hi, I'm Colin! 👋 I'm a software engineer who happens to get up during the 5 a.m. hour to moonlight as a triathlete before work. I live in Nashville, Tennessee and work for Carter's as the Senior Manager over eCommerce Engineering. That's a lot of fancy sounding words that ultimately just mean I se…
- [Resume](https://colinlord.com/resume.md) - Excerpt goes here

## Posts
- [Social Media Sucks Now](https://colinlord.com/social-media-sucks-now.md) - Social media kinda sucks now. I miss the old days before algorithms and engagement became the goal. Or maybe I’m just becoming an old.
- [Ironman 70.3 Boulder](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-boulder.md) - A Murphy’s Law type of race…until it wasn’t.
- [How To Enable IP Passthrough Mode on an AT&T Fiber Gateway](https://colinlord.com/enable-ip-passthrough-mode-on-att-fiber-gateway.md) - A step-by-step guide to configure your AT&T Fiber gateway in IP Passthrough mode to use your own router and avoid double NAT.
- [Magic at the Mountain 5k Swim](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/magic-at-the-mountain.md) - Swimming is my weakest discipline. So it makes perfect sense for me to sign up for a race that’s 25% longer than the swim in a full Ironman!
- [Ironman 70.3 Dallas-Little Elm](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-dallas-little-elm.md) - Coming off a serious injury, my biggest victory in Dallas wasn't my time...it was refusing to let a setback snowball into more.
- [I Might Be Getting Sick](https://colinlord.com/might-be-getting-sick.md) - I feel completely fine as I write this, but my Apple Watch says otherwise.
- [Humbled](https://colinlord.com/humbled.md) - A couple of weeks into my return to run program, I am trying to be glass half full.
- [I Miss Gmail, But Google Won't Let Me Come Back](https://colinlord.com/i-miss-gmail.md) - The difference between a Gmail account and a Google Workspace account is wider than you'd expect.
- [Google Gemini Lied To Me](https://colinlord.com/google-gemini-lied-to-me.md) - I had my first truly troubling experience with AI. I caught it lying to me because it was ashamed of itself.
- [A Setback To Start The Offseason](https://colinlord.com/a-setback-to-start-the-offseason.md) - Thus far, this is the most serious injury I’ve had during my triathlon career.
- [Ironman 70.3 North Carolina](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-north-carolina.md) - Numb, shivering, and ready to quit on a lonely road. This is the story of how the race I almost gave up on became my fastest.
- [Ironman 70.3 Louisville](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-louisville-2025.md) - The day started with jumping into the 86º Ohio River, and that was just the beginning of the heat and humidity.
- [Music City Triathlon](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/music-city-triathlon-2025.md) - The race began with open water panic, but ultimately ended in my fastest Olympic distance triathlon ever.
- [Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-chattanooga-2025.md) - The distance was made up and the overall time didn't matter today.
- [The Traveling Triathlete](https://colinlord.com/the-traveling-triathlete.md) - An under-appreciated challenge as a triathlete is how to keep up with a training plan while traveling.
- [Ironman 70.3 Puerto Rico](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-puerto-rico-2025.md) - My first time ever doing a triathlon relay! It was only ⅓ of the work, but that tropical humidity left me sweatier than most traditional triathlons. 😅
- [Triathlon Setback: The Flu 💀](https://colinlord.com/the-flu.md) - Tennessee had its highest rate of flu infections in more than a decade. Unfortunately, I wasn’t unscathed.
- [A Blog? In 2025?](https://colinlord.com/a-blog-in-2025.md) - Welcome to my throwback to high school, hopefully with slightly less shame and drama from homeroom.
- [A Milestone Birthday Month!](https://colinlord.com/a-milestone-birthday-month.md) - A much needed triathlon offseason begins with a winter storm and a milestone birthday. 🎂
- [Ironman 70.3 Florida](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-florida-2024.md) - The final notable event of my 30s naturally had to be a triathlon! Just 10 days before Christmas, I jumped into Lake Eva for my *fifth* 70.3 of 2025.
- [Ironman 70.3 Ohio](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-ohio-2024.md) - Not only was it a race weekend, it was the opening weekend for a certain movie sequel I’d been waiting *literally* decades to finally see. 🌪️
- [Ironman 70.3 Iowa](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-iowa-2024.md) - It was a bittersweet race, but I hope my memories from today age like a fine wine. I want to look back fondly on what happened in Des Moines.
- [Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-chattanooga-2024.md) - My fifth consecutive time racing here! The 2024 edition was going to plan...at least until I went tumbling off my bike onto the pavement at the first aid station. 🫠
- [Ironman 70.3 St. George](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-st-george-2024.md) - I kicked off my 2024 race season in Utah. It was my first time getting to experience (and climb!) famous Snow Canyon.
- [Ironman 70.3 Indian Wells](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-indian-wells-2023.md) - Unexpected drama with getting my bike out to California and catching a cold during race week didn't stand in the way of a new 70.3 PR to wrap up the 2023 season!
- [Ironman 70.3 World Championship](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-world-championship-2023.md) - Lahti, Finland was the site of my first time racing at a world championship event. It was one of the most memorable (and rainy!) days of my life.
- [Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-chattanooga-2023.md) - I accomplished goals I never could have imagined a year ago. But it’s a weekend of mixed emotions because of events in my life away from triathlon.
- [Ironman 70.3 Augusta](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-augusta-2022.md) - After catching COVID in June, and again in July, I wasn't really prepared for this race. I'm glad I went anyway!
- [Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-chattanooga-2022.md) - My second Ironman 70.3 in fifteen days brought me back to Chattanooga, my favorite host city.
- [Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-703-gulf-coast.md) - Severe weather affected this year's race during bike drop-off and our swim in the Gulf of Mexico.
- [Atlanta Marathon](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/atlanta-marathon-2022.md) - My first standalone marathon with a bit of an injury and a truly incredible amount of rain.
- [Ironman Chattanooga](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-chattanooga-2021.md) - My first time completing a full distance Ironman! Because of the pandemic, it was a finish line I'd been waiting two years to finally cross.
- [Ironman Chattanooga ... On My Own 😷](https://colinlord.com/race-reports/ironman-chattanooga-2020.md) - I spent most of 2020 training for Ironman Chattanooga. While COVID canceled the event, I decided to go cover the distance on my own.

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