Decisions & Excuses

This guest post is brought to us by @SwimBikeNap, Todd Nixon.  I loved this post because it’s something that’s been weighing on me over the last few months. Todd is the #BestTriClubEver manager and most recently, joined Team SBM Tri as an associate coach. He has been a valuable part to the Swim Bike Community for several years […]

Ready to Start Owning It? This Post is for YOU.

Today I have a guest post from someone who I admire tremendously, and who really knows her stuff—between the ears. She’s a peak performance mindset coach (she’s on the way to being my new Tony. 🙂 )  And how much of what we do in life (and triathlon) is about our mental state!? (Um, the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Heartrate Training: Go Slow to Go Fast

Well, it’s the OFF SEASON, and people on Strava are wondering, “Why are you running SO slowly!?” [Dude, that’s my normal pace, step off!] And then I go to the Cayman Islands and run a half marathon ON PURPOSE at a 16+ minute mile (mostly walking, BTW), you have to know there’s a reason. (And yes, […]

“Not Giving a Sh*t is a Way to Have a Terrible Life…”

“It does not take any courage to say, ‘Nothing is going to work.’ What you are really saying is, ‘I am afraid to try. Because what if I try and I fail.’ The hipster approach is to say, ‘I don’t give a sh*t.’ But not giving a sh*t is a way to have a terrible […]

To Meredith on Her 37th Birthday (and a Tony Robbins Thing)

So today, I am 37 years young. I celebrated my birthday a little early–last weekend at the Tony Robbins seminar, Unleash the Power Within, in San Jose, California.  Now, that is a birthday people. And yeah, I’m dead serious. (And yes, in case you were wondering, I have been waiting for several decades to write that blog post […]

Tuesday Tri Tip: Strength Training in the Off Season

strength training in the off season

Winter is coming… Er, I mean the off season is here. Or maybe it’s better to think of it as the pre-season. We know how easy it is to lose our mojo in the winter if we don’t keep moving forward. [Even if it’s a different kind of moving forward.] Which means, it’s time to […]