rob balucas

Catalyst. Creative. Triathlete. Speaker. Cigar Aficionado. Amateur Behavioral Psychologist. Fresh Spring Roll Addict. Paraplegic at the moment.

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Recent Posts:

  • Kona IRONMAN World Championships | Race Recap
  • Rob Balucas: 2022 Breakfast with Bob from Kona
  • Wheels Down in Kona
  • coffee love | year 7 update
  • 2022: The Year of Doing
  • Nametags Chat Episode 72 – Rob Balucas
  • “Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy…”
  • Sports Saved My Life Podcast | Episode 33 Rob Balucas – Childhood, The Crash, and Becoming a Paratriathlete.
  • I should be in Kona right now.
  • I Punched My Ticket to Kona
  • 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 Lubbock Race Recap
  • “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake…”
  • Minds N’ Motion Podcast | MENTALLY OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND TIPS FOR RECOVERY with Paratriathlete Rob B.
  • Bumble – ‘Paraplegic After an Accident, Rob Overcame Despair — and Met Erika’
  • In Those Moments When You Are Paralyzed By Fear | TEDxBigSky
  • Always a choice
  • “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs…”
  • USA Today Money – ‘An accessible home makes life easier’ for a para athlete and his partner’
  • 9/5/2020 update | Year 5
  • “If you don’t have a good sense of personal sovereignty…”
  • Angel City Sports Takes Annual Adaptive Sporting Event Virtual
  • West Hills paraplegic sets his sights on Ironman championship
  • “The pessimist complains about the wind…”
  • Angel City Sports Takes Annual Adaptive Sporting Event Virtual
  • “Talent is God given…”
  • Challenged Athletes Live Q&A with Bob Babbitt: Episode Fourteen | Rob Balucas
  • Apple App Store Feature
  • Times they are a changin’
  • Real Mothers of Triathlon
  • Breakfast with Bob: Nice, France Edition
  • “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem…”
  • you don’t really care | year 4 update
  • 2019 IRONMAN 70.3 Lubbock Race Recap
  • “It’s not the critic who counts;”
  • 9/5/2018 update | Year 3
  • Team Chubby Donut Rides the Marin Century
  • Giant Race 2018
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Buffalo Springs Lake Race Recap
  • “The universe is full of magical things…”
  • Oceanside 70.3 IRONMAN Race Recap
  • if I’m still breathing, then I’m still gonna keep moving
  • “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
  • one two step
  • What Do You Decide?
  • The Martian
  • BORP revolution ride | ride recap
  • malibu triathlon | race recap
  • 9/5/2017 update | 2-year anniversary
  • lucas valley road
  • escape from alcatraz 2017 | race report
  • on your left!
  • california classic weekend
  • EAT! (during your ride)
  • go to lunch
  • a year ago
  • mission accomplished
  • on the road: the real journey has begun
  • the rally
  • a little masters swim and qt with @hayatz
  • Long distance TriBuddies!
  • Hill/bridge repeat #2 #handcycle
  • Great people and huge inflatable donut. Thanks ‘merica!
  • Work with what you got. #bodybyhayatz
  • party like we do. #GGTC
  • Time to get some miles in.
  • Hanging w MBK!
  • #teambalucas
  • workout after the workout
  • Time for technique training.
  • My pain doesn't go away.
  • When really tall dudes come visit, one has to stand.
  • Sniffles? Feeling a bug coming on? Too bad.
  • Working on that range and stroke
  • project walk | first workout
  • Went a little too big last week
  • A quick recap of my ab workout
  • Trying out my new wetsuit capri pants
  • Paraplegic #burpees #triseason
  • my first 454 steps in an Ekso Bionics exoskeleton!
  • back on the streets
  • New Year’s Fail
  • #staybarreled
  • Fresno Send Off | Thank You
  • Fri Oct 23 Update
  • can you feel it?
  • balucas send-off | nov 3rd
  • adobo!!
  • family fun day with Rob. milkshakes +hoops, oh my!
  • Thu, Oct 15 Update
  • how do you explain something that makes you feel more .. human?
  • 10/11 Sun Update
  • finally got my Mom to smile for the camera.
  • 10/10 Sat Update
  • Sometimes really awful things happen to really great people
  • sorry beard lovers
  • Update 10/8 Thu
  • 10/7 update
  • 10/6 Tues Update
  • 10/6 Tues Update #2
  • a very serious father daughter conversation