Kick, Stretch and Kick… I’m FIFTY!

Well, I did it.  I rode fifty miles.  My time was 3:10:24, an average of 15.5mph. A few observations about the half-century distance: 1)  ouch; 2)  owie; and 3)  owwwwwwww (&*@&#!). I felt pretty darn good at mile thirty.  But by thirty-eight, my legs were hating me. Not to mention my girl parts. And I […]

Zooooooom (That was Fast!)

Hit the pool early this morning for a fifty minute continuous swim workout.  I decide to push as hard as I could stand and put down a 2 mile swim (3250 meters).  I finished in just under fifty-seven minutes, hitting the one mile right at thirty minutes.  Obviously, I picked up the pace on the […]

Just Because.

 Because sometimes we need a reminder. Because sometimes we need some perspective. Because everybody needs a hero. Because you can do anything you set out to do.Whether Rudy or Rudy. Just because.   My girl, Stella.    Happy weekend, ya’ll.  Have a great one.

Why Ironman is Like Natural Childbirth

A friend of mine, Bonnie, wrote a hilarious Facebook note.  I know Bonnie from our former Olympic-style weightlifting days. She’s also turned endurance athlete (although…she is much more “athlete” than I!).  She has two beautiful children brought into this world by 100% natural childbirth (awesome!) and a new baby girl on the way.  Oh, and she did […]

Big (Slightly Less Fat) Sissy

The official training schedule called for a TEN mile run today.  I’ve had the schedule in front of me for two weeks, so I knew it was coming.  But after the Peachtree, last week, I wasn’t feeling too hot about ten miles.  I hit the Silver Comet Trail at dusk.  Me and my broken Garmin band left the […]

Prizes for Embarrassment

Everyone knows that I am a Swim Bike Klutz.  But I know there are more of you out there.   TriCrowd is teaming up with SwimBikeMom to give away t-shirts, gyms bags, and waterbottles for the best (worst?) humiliating triathlon moments. Again, just as before, please don’t submit something like: “OMG, I finished second and it was sooooo embarrassing.” That won’t […]

Wednesday Wisdom

So in this month’s issue of Runner’s World, there was an article about coping with negative issues in running, like hecklers on the side of the road yelling “Run, Forrest, Run!”   And then the article went on to say something about the movie Forrest Gump debuting SEVENTEEN years ago.   I thought, Surely that’s not right.  […]

Heartrate Heartbreak

Blast. My Garmin FR60 band “keeper” (the little rubber strap holder) broke today. I went online to find a cure for it, and there are all sorts of angry forums about Garmin responding to this issues with: “Broken watch band “keeper” (little rubber ring)? Buy new watch.”  Really? Did Garmin really say that? Hurmph.I like the […]

Food and Real Regret

I’ve been hanging out with the wrong friends and working with all the wrong people. I mean, if I had real friends and real co-workers, these people would have tied me to a chair and wired my jaw shut by now.  Or they would at least slap my hand away from the goodies in the break […]