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 […]

**Updated: Even as I write these next couple chapters about my Ironman (now two months out) I question my attitude on race day, I question if I should race with a time goal again, I question my training, and my heart. I’ve had a bit of a cold this week, which has sidelined me again […]

Well, I guess it’s time to write about the big day.  I’m not exactly sure why I put it off.  I think partly life was just busy afterwards, spending time with family, driving 16 hours, coming home and celebrating with friends, and of course working.  I also think I just didn’t really want to face […]

Unless I’m racing…or training. I mean, I just really like pink….and I don’t really mind standing out when I’m working out.  Which is weird, because in real life (so not racing or training I mean [cuz that’s not real?]) I actually try to blend-in and NOT be noticed, I even get pretty embarrassed if and […]