Panic. Bike. Walk.

PART I:  PANIC: Forty-three degrees outside this morning.  Sixty-two degrees in the lake. The Expert and I head out early.  We stop at the gate to Lake Lanier’s Mary Alice Park.  Time for the Inaugural Swim Bike Mom’s Swim Bike Run Event (a/k/a two weeks to race day). The old guy waiting at the guard […]

Open Water Willies

Sunday will be my first open water swim practice before the big race.  I have tried on my Free Willy wetsuit once, but only before the purchase at All3Sports. I thought that I probably ought to try it again before heading out to the lake.  The Expert is in Chicago and the kids are in bed. […]

Triathlon Smells….

….like heaven.   Okay, so maybe I’m weird.  But I love smelling like a pool after a swim. Today, I had a tough, tough swim, which ended with three short time trials.  I felt great after the workout, which finished up with 3×50 at  0:53, 0:52, and 0:51. Then I had a breakfast meeting.  Each […]

We Orcas Rule the School

Received this photo from Brooke, a TriCrowd fan, and I loved it so much I had to put it up (with her permission, of course). She said she “looks like a conehead in a whale costume.”     You go girl, with your Orca suit and conehead swim cap.  Girl after my own heart!  We Orcas rule the […]

Shamu the Triathlete

Well, my worst fear is realized.  The wetsuit, which I now proudly own, is an ORCA brand suit. It is so pretty. But the name. Oh, the shame. Disclaimer: This post contains disturbing images inappropriate to those scared of big gals in neoprene. As suspected, I am rocking the men’s suit. The sizing chart for the women’s suit […]

Try on Wetsuits 2011

I am counting down the dreaded seconds until Wednesday. Wednesday is my planned trip to All3Sports, for the dreaded SwimBikeMom event:  Try on Wetsuits 2011.This morning, Coach Monster asked me again if I had a wetsuit. I told him that I had read the horrors of wetsuits for fat-bottomed girls in my Slow Fat Triathlete book, and I […]

Wetsuit Time

Coach Monster told me that if I didn’t have a wetsuit, that I better get one.  I knew this day would come.  I have dreaded it. The Expert and the kids were watching Jumanji, and I was browsing wetsuits online.  Out of the blue, I piped up and told the Expert, “You know, I think I’m […]

Kiss It, Valentine’s Day

Today was an awful day.  And to top it off, it’s Valentine’s Day.  Ugh.  Blech. I had garbage for Court today… and after spending my entire weekend thinking and digesting that stupid case, I left work at 1:30 to squeeze in my workouts before I had to come home to my second job (crazy kids […]