Funny Shoes

Thanks for all the great advice about running shoes and the most important advice was definitely:  go forth and get yourself fit for proper shoes. I have a little four miler today after a swim.  I am bringing my current sneaks… and these: I may try these crazy things.  I have them for months, but […]

70.3 Bliss

The Expert and I are celebrating (perhaps a better word is “noticing”) our ten year anniversary in October.  I always said that for our ten-year deal, we would throw a huge party with lots of wine, booty-shaking and general craziness. Instead of opting for the party, we opted for a really strange party: 70.3 Miami. October […]

8 Mile, Part Deux

Today was the second time in my life I ran 8 miles. This time, I had no gastro-intestinal distress (thank God), and I did the run on the DreadMill instead of a park. Well. Instead of gastro distress, I had knee, hip and hammy distress.  At mile 2.5, my IT band was hurting so badly, […]

What?!

Coach Monster put 8 miles on my run schedule for tomorrow. Which begs the questions:1) WHO (surely he didn’t mean me running 8 miles tomorrow….)2) WHAT?!?!3) WHEN am I going to find that “extra” two hours to run  (yes, it will take me at least 2 hours…I’m slow, people… where have you been?); and4) WHERE exactly will I […]

Accountability

As I wind down from a long Memorial Day weekend, Savannah style – full of shrimp, beer and laughs – I need a giant whip to crack over my head in the morning. I am packing my gym bag for a swim/run in the morning, and I am dragging lead weights behind me.  I am […]

Super Cool

Again. Just in case anyone thinks I blog to make myself look “super cool”, well, here’s another little adventure in Swim Bike Klutz. Leaving an awesome, sweat-busting spin class this morning… I was wearing flip-flops…. and managed to slip on  a puddle of someone else’s sweat.  I landed flat on my ass, spewing water bottles, Shimanos […]

Bothersome Happiness

I am pretty happy these days.  And I love the fact that my happiness actually bothers some people. Maybe I come off cocky or self-indulgent.  Okay, I can see that.  Maybe at first read. But… as I have said 100,000 times – I don’t write this stuff to make people like me, or to make myself look […]

I Ate Run for Lunch

So I have officially been back on the training wagon for two (for real) days.   Coach Monster has given me the rest of this week to figure myself out, and then I can hear the whip cracking in the distance.  Of course, Memorial Day weekend will sure to derail a few days of it […]

Crazy-Girl-I-Am

So today I sent Coach Monster an email asking for a few days to compose myself.  When I saw the schedule and the 70.3 training commencing at 5:30am today, I chickened out.  Fear is starting to creep-a-leep. I can’t seem to get back into the swing of things.  Oh, that… and the fact, my brain […]