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Testing iphone blogger

katymoe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:59:58 +0000

This is posted using wordpress for my iPhone.

Katymoe: The. Worst. Ironman. Blogger. Ever.

katymoe — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:34:46 +0000

So, the title should explain it all. I have all these stories locked up in my brain, and a few pictures to go with them (all of which I am downloading tonight). I LOVE blogging and I love telling stories, so I’m not sure why I’m so bad at actually doing it. When I’m riding, running, and swimming, (or crafting) I am always thinking of all the funny things I’m going to write…..then before you know it…it’s been three weeks and the stories (which have fizzled in humor and detail) are still in my brain and the pictures are still in my camera.

I’m an avid blog reader. Especially professional triathletes. It keeps me sooo motivated reading about their training….how they LOVE to “give it to themselves” to be “smashed” what they are eating. How they train, eat, nap, eat, train, eat, nap, sleep! THE LIFE! I get really bummed if my favorites don’t blog for a while. So, here it is folks. Tonight I’m sitting down and posting a few stories of late.

Just so this isn’t the most boring post ever. I’m going to post a few pictures of a few things that don’t have huge stories:

These are some hair flowers I made for my adorable friend Ky’an. They are just layers and layers of polyester fabric circles, with burned edges. I sewed on some beads, and hot glue gunned ‘em to some bobby pins! I love them!

That’s my quilt on the floor in the background. I was working on it like a mad-woman during my recovery week. The top is completely done, this is what happened every time I needed to lay the quilt or any quilt pieces on the floor. It’s like a puppy magnet!

We had a puppy birthday party at our house last weekend. The three sisters Clementine (Brett’s parent’s dog), Olive (Brett’s sisters’ dog), and our little Arizona turned a year old last Friday! I made home made doggy treats (seen in the picture), and a people cake for us to eat! It was a fun, and funny family day!

Halloween

katymoe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:51:49 +0000

One of my favorite things in life to do is dress up. I’ve always been like that. I’d wear my Halloween costumes year round. I would dress up in my gymnastic recital outfits and run around town. If friends came over to play, we always put on costumes and ran around the forest making up stories.

So, naturally, one of my favorite times of the year is Halloween, because there are so many opportunities to dress up! When dressing up and working out collide I almost don’t know what to do with myself.

Today was one of those days! The Fresno State Triathlon Team hosted the Halloween Dog Jog! Talk about FUN!. I threw on an old ROCKY BALBOA costume I made a few years ago, and ran out the door with Zona. Zona hasn’t really proved to be the best running partner. Either she tries to trip me, eat the leash while flying through the air in front of me (also results in tripping), flops on the ground and refuses to go, or drags me down the road at warp-speed.

So today was a big day for Miss Zona. I thought worst case scenario she can sit in the car and wait while I race….she seemed so pumped to run though, and it was a small race so I thought it was a good opportunity to break her into the running scene.

First of all, she really needs to work on her pacing….she BOLTED from the start-line barking and dragging me. I have to say I was a little nervous.

Then she became enthralled with the cows on the Fresno State farm, I was worried I would have to end up dragging her down the course away from the cows. Before I knew it, a person passed us, and my girl shined like a little competitive running super star and wasn’t going to let the pass happen. Really, she probably only chased the person down due to the fact that this person looked like a HUGE TOY! Halloween runs can be very exciting for dogs, let me tell you.

So, Miss Zona and I ended our day with a MEDAL for 1st place in my age group. I got to dress-up and I got to run, so I’m a happy girl. On another note, I did my VO2 max test yesterday (I wish I got pictures of that) and coach is working on my Training plan for November YAHOO! Look out IM CDA!

P90X

katymoe — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:01:19 +0000

so, i bought P90X. have you heard of it? the first time i heard of P90X, my friend was telling me about this “great” new workout program her boyfriend bought. she seemed all impressed and stuff. i was thinking to myself, “ya, ya….exercise video….been there done that”. then she continued to tell me how she came home one day, and found him lying in the bathroom floor after puking halfway through one of the videos. OOOH, TELL ME MORE!

after P90X

i became obsessed. i was on P90X’s website almost everyday! i was reading reviews and getting pumped. i had to have this program. i was reading about all these people and their 6-pack abs, and all they had to do to get them was a little P90X!? i’m looking at these people and thinking….”i could actually LOOK like an Ironman triathlete!”. their 6-pack abs were haunting me, they were everywhere i looked. i wanted them, so i bought it. thank you amazon.com.

i don't look half bad in the dark.

i spent about a week and a half reading, studying, and planning the best approach to make my P90X experience the BEST it could be. i WOULD have 6-pack abs. i wanted to start on the perfect day. so, Monday August 24th, brett and i donned our P90X gear, printed our workout sheets, watched the first video labeled “HOW TO BRING IT” (talk about pumped up! not really), took our before pictures, and started.

the first video was chest and back which actually means, an hour of pull-ups and push-ups….then after that you do “AB RIPPER X”…which is 16 minutes of abdominal exercise-hell. like you might have to do this in hell…i’m not kidding. i think the devil co-wrote this workout.

it was sad when my camera started working.

after the first 10 push-ups (which is all i can do), and my first 5 pull-ups (using a chair to stand on. yes, i’ve completed two ironman distances races, jerks) i’m pretty sure brett and i spent more time laying on the floor laughing at ourselves than actually exercising…..but i clearly got a good workout, as i still couldn’t get off the floor when we were done. apparently it takes arms and abs to get one’s body off the floor. ouch.

day two of P90X was plyometrics. which was basically high school volleyball practice without any equipment, and probably wasn’t very good for my plantar fasciitis. it did hurt so good, so maybe i can do a low impact version next time, and maybe i’ll even bring out my volleyball, just to make it more fun.

yep, i'm really flexing and that's all there is.

day 3 of P90X was arms, back, and AB RIPPER X! they want me to use my arms and abs again?! i was just getting REALLY REALLY sore from Monday’s workout. so because i’m tough, i did pull-ups, i did bicep curls (more than i’ve ever done before in my life), i layed on the floor laughing at brett, and i got attacked by my puppy. you see, she thinks we are playing without her when we do P90X, it’s pretty hilarious. especially during AB DEVIL RIPPER X when we are laying on the floor (working really hard) and she’s barking and jumping on, over, and around us! hilarious.

let's play!!

imagine laying there on the floor abs-a-burnin’, zona attackin’, brett-a-laughin’, tony horton a-yellin’. it makes for an interesting and fun workout.

i may not have 6-pack abs at the end of all of this afterall.

Ouch.

katymoe — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:19:55 +0000

The life of Katymoe has been pretty interesting lately. Lots of new stuff going on. The most exciting and time consuming of all these “new things” is Arizona. My new puppy! I’ve had her now for about three weeks and we have been having way too much fun!

I also this past month took up Bikram or Hot Yoga. Which is a super fun challenge for my tight, over-run-bike-swam body. Basically it’s 90 minutes of yoga in a room heated to about 100 degrees. I can tell you one thing and that is that you SWEAT in this class! phew! I really really love it, and would love to incorporate it into my training, but finding time for everything is pretty tough. I did a few Bikram classes after a run or bike ride and I barely made it through class. On a typical day I drink about 2 liters of water before AND after class. I really think it would be a fantastic off season workout, but right now while I’m trying to build up to (maybe) race I think it’s too much. If you are interested in trying it out though, check out www.bluemoonyogafresno.com.

In triathlon news, there are a couple races I’m looking into. There is the Splash ‘n Dash at Millerton Lake May 30th, which is a 400 yard swim and 3 mile run. I’ve done this race before and it’s lots of fun. There is the Mermaid Triathlon in Fremont, CA June 7th. This is an all women’s, FUN event. I haven’t committed to this one yet. The big race I’m leaning towards doing this season is Barb’s Race http://www.vineman.com/Barb_s_Race.htm this is an all women’s Half Ironman distance (ouch) event. Barb’s race also raises funds for breast cancer research which of course is very cool.

This past week I did a little “focused triathlon training” again, ouch. My goals were 15 miles of running, 40 miles of cycling, and to get in a swimming pool. (baby steps). I actually ended up cycling about 55-60 miles. It was fun to have goals, and it was really nice to have some structure to my life again. I think I’m going to do it……I mean sign up for Barb’s Race. Half Ironman Fit….here I come!!