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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This weekend included lots of swimming, and riding. On Saturday, I was supposed to ride for about 6 hours. It was freaking cold out. I believe it was foggy and about 42 degrees. That doesn’t sound too bad if you are running, but it is bone chilling when you are riding your bike. And I [...]
I’m not going to lie. Last week was not a good week. My babies (2 youngster weims) broke out of yard (chewed through two fences) 3 times last week, and work just flat out sucked. I wish that I could tell you more about work and my thoughts on it, but considering I would like [...]