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 […]