A Sobering Thought (Okay, Lots of Thoughts)

Deep breath… and GO… So I quit drinking. Like, yeah, completely.  I am a sober person. And I’m one of “those people” who is counting the days without a drink (#Day82), and I’m proudest of the days when I go out to a cocktail party and I am drinking soda/lime and I’m home and in […]

The Recipe for an Excuse

  In a follow-up post to Big Picture Discipline… the lack of motivation is often bordered with a lovely, frilly little doily of… one excuse after another. Now, I don’t have the market cornered on perfection or how to stop making excuses forever and ever, because lord knows, I don’t have that shit figured out. I […]

Resolutions? In the Circular File, Please.

There are a million articles online about why New Years Resolutions totally fail.  I read many of them, and I agreed with the propositions behind many, like this one from Psychology Today. As I sat down to write this post, I was trying to think of what I really thought about resolutions. Because for the […]

Ironman Louisville 2015: The Swim Bike Mom Race Report

So yeah, this was the year of the two Ironman races. After IM Lake Placid, just 11 weeks ago, I wasn’t sure how Louisville was going to go for me. I mean, let’s be honest. It wasn’t looking good.  I missed every single key bike workout (save one) and hadn’t run over 10 miles in this […]

Cooties. Taper. 5 Days to Ironman.

Just the word “taper” makes me shudder. The Taper Worm, as I have called it in the past, is actually pretty quiet at the moment. I guess because I have had sort of a non-traditional taper (and training build… ah-hem, none), so this experience is completely, absolutely new terrain for me. In light of the […]

“I Forgot You are Doing an Ironman”

So someone asked me recently about my training.  I mentioned that I was taking on Ironman Lake Placid in, oh, 50 days. And they said, “Oh my gosh. I forgot you are doing an Ironman.” Then I realized out eerily quiet I have been about this upcoming, third 140.6. I mean, really quiet. (For me. […]

26 Days Later

On December 1, I embarked on (yet another) food journey with our flagship “Swim Bike Food” group.  The Expert (and the kids, by default) came along for the ride. As I always say, “I’m just one bad day away from a large pizza and a 12 pack of beer”—-and this may still be true—-but at […]

On Mastering Emotion

“Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.”  — Jim Rohn One of the ladies in our December Swim Bike Food group posted the above quote yesterday, and I thought, “Yes. This is really good.” I experienced a wide roller coaster of emotions when I received a notice from a debt collector about a […]

Getting to Know Andy Potts

First of all, I cannot believe that this happened. What a GREAT weekend–thank you All3Sports, Dynamo and Andy Potts–not only did I get to meet my favorite boy triathlete, but I learned SO much. Between the Q&A last night and the Swim Clinic today, I’m just blown away. So thank you all. The Q&A at […]