Race day is almost here, and I am PUMPED.  Brett, Zona, and I arrived in Tahoe late on Tuesday night to The Beaver Lodge.  It’s a great little cabin, I’d stay here again in a heartbeat.  The Beaver Lodge is definitely the perfect location for some epic pre-race workouts, and some epic relaxation.    The […]

My last BIG weekend was two weekends ago now.  I did a rather EPIC ride with a new group of girls and had a blast.  These girls call themselves the Ironminxes which is adorable and fun, but they’re also badass.   We set out to do a 110 mile Peninsula ride, no one bothered to […]

I’m a really big fan of recovery. I’ve learned through the years just how beneficial rest is. I’m definitely the athlete that wants to do any, and every, and all workouts my friends are doing, especially since my training IS my social life (more on that in my “Balance Blog” I’ve been trying to write). […]

I used to be extremely superstitious, I think many athletes are. You hear about pro athletes all the time who don’t wash things or don’t cut/trim body hair during a season or a winning streak of some sort.  I’m sure there are even weirder ones like cyclists not having sex close to races, or was that […]

This past week was a really rough training week.  It was a scheduled recovery week, and I did very little training –like WAY less than I should have, and somewhere in there I completely lost my Ironman Mojo. I came off of two big weeks of training and by Monday morning I felt COMPLETELY smashed. […]

I don’t have time for a full race report about Vineman Full Aquabike, but I do want to leave you with some snippets of what a great weekend it was. I used AirBnB to book my lodging for Friday night since the wine country is out of control expensive, and I ended up in this beautiful […]

I’ve been getting my fill of updating everyone about my exciting life through facebook, instagram, twitter, etc., but I really do miss writing about my training and all the things that happen while training.  One reason for the blogging hiatus, has been the random busy-ness of moving, new jobbing, training for a marathon, & planning […]

I know it sounds super weird, but my new pool is a 33 yard pool.  I don’t even try to do the math, I just swim the number of laps the coach says too.  One set I tried to figure out how many yards I was swimming and gave up after 3 laps.  I have […]

I can’t believe how long it has been since I’ve posted a blog.  Man, does time fly when you’re having fun!  I really want to just hit the ground running with some new fun posts, but as I’ve written about before, one of my hang-ups to my blogging success is that I HAAAVE to write […]

Running is my favorite thing. I just love it. I’ve always loved it and I’ve always been good at running for a long time. One of my favorite things as a kid was a jog-a-thon fundraiser.  People donated money on a per lap basis, for example $1 per lap and then we ran for a […]