Tuesday Tri Tip #2: The Great Coach Debate
This week’s Tuesday Tri Tip article is by none other than yours truly. Now, I didn’t choose this article simply because I wrote it. (I mean, it does make it easier… but still). But it’s actually very related to last week’s Motivational Monday post which was about getting rid of the self-hate clutter and working on […]
“How to Survive Anything” – A Post about Fear
The Swim Bike Family headed to the lake yesterday for a little morning of fun, open water swimming and wetsuit testing, to be followed by lunch and a stop by Cabela’s (a/k/a where all things are Southern, fishing, hunting and camouflage). The Expert has decided that they (and I mean they) are going camping; so there were camping […]
When Feeling Bad May Be Good
The Expert and I were watching the Olympics last night–the 48kg women’s weightlifting event to be exact. (Backstory: he and I are both former Olympic-style weightlifters. Neither of us made it as far as the Olympic stage… but did enjoy some “success” at the international level in the sport.) I always love watching this particular body […]
I Raced (Sort of): The 2016 PT Solutions Allatoona Swim Bike Mom Race Report
This was my third year completing the PT Solutions Allatoona Sprint Triathlon. And I had the kind of day, where I thought: I am not even writing a race report about this one. But then I realized that I was being a brat. (Still am, actually. But here’s the report anyway… in spite of myself). […]
Pushing Limits, Patience, and Protecting the Kids
As I wrote in this month’s article in Triathlete Magazine, I have two amazing, wonderful children–who could not be more different. They had their second ever triathlon this past weekend. Stella (age 7) jumped out of bed at 4:45am, with her little warm face pressed up against mine, whispering, “Mom, mom, mom. I am so excited.” […]
New Beauties (For Boys AND Girls)
Available now for Pre-Order through Father’s Day! See ALL the pretty things here.
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 Cost of Triathlon: Swim Bike Mom’s Take
Excerpt, Abridged, Updated, and Funnified from “Triathlon for the Every Woman: You Can Be a Triathlete. Yes. You.“ There’s a post floating around (I think it’s from Active.com) about the so-called fact that it will cost you $2,000- $25,000 to make it to an Ironman start line. I think that they are totally right–you can absolutely fall […]
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 […]