Ironman Arizona 2011: The Swim

November 25, 2011
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If you missed the pre-race activities, click here. For the first time EVER, I was able to sleep the night before the a race. Who was I? Since I had set everything I needed out the night before, it only took me 20 minutes to get ready including putting my breakfast of a gf bagel [...]

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Ironman Arizona 2011: Pre Race Activities

November 23, 2011
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I’m still in shock that I completed an Ironman on Sunday. It was an unbelievable day, and I feel incredibly fortunate to even have taken part in something like that. Since I have so much to say about the race, I thought that I would break it up into sections starting with pre-race activities. Sorry [...]

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AZ Ironman Morning

November 20, 2011
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Here we go… Related posts:Weinstrasse Half Marathon 2010Robbing a BankBloomsday Run Recap

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Tapering for IMAZ

November 15, 2011
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Wow, the last couple of weeks have gone by so incredibly fast. I cannot believe that I will be an Ironman in 5 days. It is kinda freaky! Tapering has been fun. I’ve gotten to really enjoy the fall weather with the extremely slow weekend runs.  My coach says that it is important to get [...]

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Book Review: Spirit Junkie

November 3, 2011
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Leah, from Open Sky, emailed me the end of August asking me if I would like to do a book review for Spirit Junkie by Gabrielle Bernstein. She included this tidbit about the author: ‘She is a next generation guru, motivational speaker, life coach and best selling author.  In a feature on her in the [...]

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Pumpkins and Tapering

November 1, 2011
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The last couple of weeks have been a little crazy with work, training, family time, puppy time, volunteering, being sick, resting etc. Not last weekend, but the weekend before, I did NOT have the best training weekend. That Saturday, I was supposed to run for 3 hours. Did not happen. Two miles into the run, [...]

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Portland Marathon 2011 Recap

October 21, 2011
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So, this race was an interesting one. First off, I want to apologize for the pics. They suck. Something is wrong with our camera. Despite me failing to PR at this race, it was still a great one. I learned a lot about how hard I can push myself. I also learned when to tail [...]

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