Well, it had to be done, so I did it: I joined a gym (and it’s not the health club where I work – shhhhhhhh!). With swimming and biking out of the picture for the time being, there was simply no way I was going to make myself get in my backyard pool five days […]
Consistently Inconsistent
In the “real world,” I work as a fitness trainer at a health club, which I’ve come to conclude is remarkably similar to my former job as a preschool teacher. I spend a good portion of my work day educating members on what I think of as pretty basic facts about nutrition and exercise, and […]
The Week in Review
Week Two of WTH? training is in the books and, overall, it was a pretty decent week. Training volume is still really low while I’m working the kinks out of my piriformis/hammy, but I’m a fan of the “start slow and build gradually” school of thought. This is what my weekly plan looks like: Monday […]
Monday Miscellany
Monday is a rest day for me (from exercise – it tends to be busy with “real life” stuff), which means I don’t get a good head-clearing sweat session. Boo. Here are some of the things traipsing around in my brain: Today is the beginning of Week 2 of my Half-Iron training. Week 1 wasn’t […]
Two Steps Forward…
I’m sure you know where I’m going with this. I went for a run this morning and it wasn’t quite the glorious return to running I had been envisioning for the last ten days. Bummer. I took it slow and I didn’t plan to go far, but apparently it was still too much. 1.83 miles […]
It’s the Middle of Swim-ter!
I’m not running right now. Note how carefully worded that sentence is. It does not say, “I can’t run right now.” Because if I wanted to injure myself and spend the first half of 2011 recuperating, I could totally go for a run right now. By choosing not to run and belatedly proactively take care […]
Super Sprint Season Finale
******Spoiler Alert******* My sidebar isn’t sporting any changes today. You would be correct in assuming that I’m a little unhappy about that, but at least there’s a good story behind it. Here it is: When I woke up yesterday morning, it was cold. And cloudy. And quite windy. Ugh, this is not optimal race day […]
Spectator Report – TRI for KIDS
How can you tell it’s the weekend? Because we’re racing, of course! Swim cap and goggles are on, so the sweatshirt comes off. Brrrrrrrrr! It was really chilly this morning. Google Images? No. Goggle images. The hard […]
Changing Plans
So, here’s the problem with adding a race to your summer schedule at the last minute: sometimes it doesn’t really work into your plans. But the good news, in this case, is that I get to race something even better! This coming weekend, I was planning to compete in the LUNA Bar Sprint Distance Tri […]
“Yes, Virginia, There is a Speed Fairy…
…and his real name is Bicycling Aerodynamics.” I took Mr. Bike out for a little 10+ mile spin today and spent the entire ride on my aero bars (well, except for the bajillion red lights I had to stop for and turning corners, of course). Holy moly, it was awesome! This is what I usually […]
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