Revisiting the “Sucky Rotation Schedule”

After all this time, the Swim Bike Mom infamous “Sucky Rotation Schedule” is becoming a real thing. 🙂 Check out the recent article on TrainingPeaks.com:  SRS: The Ultimate Tool for Triathlete Time Management  … Ah, yes. This is the burning question. How do dedicated endurance athletes do it all—work, raise kids, swim, bike, run, maintain relationships […]

Use YOUR Yardstick

Progress is a funny thing. Progress is also difficult thing to define. (Yes, really). If you are training for triathlons as a wife and mom of three kids, and spending time away from your kids, is that really progress? What if you are working on your marriage so damn hard that you never hit your […]

Why a Starfish?

Someone in our new tri club asked about significance of the “starfish” symbol – in our logo, and of course, as some may have noticed, on our triathlon kits. A friend reminded me of a post I wrote a long while back about “why” a starfish became “my” symbol–long before it leaked over into the […]

One of Those Days

I’m having one of those days. Those days where you are doing side planks with leg lifts (um, WTF, owwwww), and you crumple to the floor in tears, for no apparent reason. Well maybe not you, but me.  Me did.  I would call it hormonal, but that’s really not the case. I’ve had a lot of […]