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CDA Polar Bear Plunge 2012

January 2, 2012
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Happy New Year!! This year, some friends and I decided to start the New Year off with a run on the trails by our house and an exhilarating dip in the CDA lake in Idaho with a few hundred other equally crazy people.   After some muffins and coffee at my house, we headed out [...]

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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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Valley Girl Sprint Triathlon

July 12, 2011
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Racing this year feels so different from previous years.  The sick nervousness that used to plague me before races has become a distant memory.  I was happy and relaxed at this triathlon.  Granted, all my races have been short little things so far.  The only tris that I have done this year have been sprints. [...]

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Coeur d’Alene Olympic Triathlon 2010 Recap: Part 2

August 13, 2010
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The swim and the bike portion of this triathlon are covered in Part 1! The Run: 6.1 miles After the first two sports of this race NOT going well, I had very low expectations for the run. I had to pee for the last hour on the bike, and my first order of business was [...]

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Coeur d’Alene Olympic Triathlon 2010 Recap: Part 1

August 12, 2010
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After tearing my house apart for 2 days prior to this race, I could not find my wetsuit anywhere. I could have sworn that I mailed it to myself after my last triathlon in Germany, but considering I also moved back to the states the day after my last triathlon I could have been mistaken. [...]

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Training and Moving

June 23, 2010
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** You have one more day to enter my giveaway!! The last couple of weeks have been a little chaotic since I have decided to race the day before I move back to the U.S. I have the Baumholder Triathlon this coming Sunday with a: 1200 meter swim 32 mile bike 8.5 mile run The [...]

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