2017 Marine Corps Marathon – Team Logan & The Swim Bike Mom Race Report

Well, we did it. Team Logan crossed the finish line at “the People’s Marathon” — Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. — on Sunday, October 22, 2017 as a part of the Kyle Pease Foundation. We “beat the bridge” at Mile 20 by the cutoff, we crossed “the gauntlet” (Mile 22), and we made it […]

Go Time! Ready for that “First Marathon”

Tomorrow, the Swim Bike Family (all of us, plus my Swim Bike Parents)) head to our Nation’s Capitol for the Marine Corps Marathon.   Originally, it was going to be just the four of us, but when I realized that my parents had never been to DC, I had to fix that one. So off we […]

5 Ways to Get a Grip When You’ve “Let Yourself Go”

I cringe and bristle when I hear this phrase: “Oh, but she has let herself go.” First of all, as someone who was an expert in letting myself go, I found it offensive that someone else also noticed that I was in the business of doing exactly that. Second of all, no one understands the battles, struggles […]

Work Ethic and Temper Tantrums (Fast Twitch to Slow Twitch, Part III)

In the prior post, I started a blog series talking about how being an Olympic weightlifter translated (or didn’t) to the sport of triathlon. First, being “bendy” was good in weightlifting, and also is good in triathlon. Sad part?  (I am not still this bendy.) I am bendy in other ways. The word “talentless” (as […]

The Summary of Things (Fast Twitch to Slow Twitch, Part II)

As a preliminary matter, distinctions between weightlifting and triathlon are vast when it comes to the types of training and “muscles” used. [If you don’t care about this part, skip down to the next post] Also, please note that this post is meant to be a summary and a simple primer. I am not digging into deep anatomy […]

Olympic Weightlifter to Triathlete (Fast Twitch to Slow Twitch)

Someone emailed me and asked if I would write about how my former sport of Olympic weightlifting translated into me becoming an endurance athlete later in life. Simply put: No translation.  Lost in Translation.  Apples and Oranges. But that is not completely true. Many don’t know the whole story of my previous-life athletic feats (and non-feats). […]

The Food Inspector

When I was a child, my parents would get so aggravated at me during mealtimes.  My dad had nicknamed me “The Food Inspector.” Because I was like the Health Department on steroids. I found something bothersome in almost every meal we ate that came from somewhere else–whether it was Thanksgiving at the grandmother’s, Pizza Hut, […]

Five Things from One Second

This is a story of cause and effect. This morning, I clicked “Buy Tickets.” 1.   I decided to order tickets to a baseball game. In that “Buy Tickets” single-click moment of decision, I could feel the almost-fall air in the shiny-new SunTrust Stadium for the Atlanta Braves. (Atlanta being the keyword in this story.) I was […]

Running after a Half Ironman

Marathon Training Update With Ironman 70.3 Augusta quickly in the rear view mirror, I was jolted back to marathon-training reality with a 6 mile run yesterday—four days after 70.3.  For some, that might not be a big deal, but that’s the soonest I have done any sort of speed interval run after a half iron. […]