Last Sunday, I drafted an email to coach: Can we switch up this week’s bike workouts? I’m really bored / tired of these. Because I can only take 30-minute intervals at all the watts for so long, and this workout (and another similar one)…
And, just like that, with the inaugural Hot Dash 10 Mile, my 2015 season is off and running. This was my first running race in about 18 months. Funny how quickly you forget that level of suffering… a completely different kind compared to triathlon. A whole…
Sometimes the only thing that gets me through a tough workout is anticipating the recovery smoothie (and maybe a Mexi Coke) waiting for me at the end. It’s just so good. Osmo Nutrition acute recovery has been my go-to after tough sessions the past year…
Go the extra mile… it’s never crowded. Clearly, here in the wintry Wisconsin north woods, it’s (literally) not crowded. Just me and the meditative crunch of my footfalls in the snow… the sound of my breath. Does running get any better? (Wait… don’t answer that.) …
I got my first pair of cross country skis when I was 12 and spent many fun afternoons skiing at Lake Bronson State Park, trying not to laugh at mom as she careened off the trail at the bottom of a hill. If you…
turning off Notifications. In mid January in an effort to cut back on screen time, I turned off every single social media notification on my phone. Because I’m constantly on my phone… checking it while waiting at stoplights, in between reading emails, at dinner,…
Toward the end of a really hard interval session on the bike recently, I welled up and had to choke back some tears. It certainly wasn’t because of the R-rated Girl Talk lyrics blasting in my ears; those are great for focusing and masking the…
Subzero temps in Minnesnowta today have me dreaming of tropical Costa Rican beaches… In April 2009, before this blog and before I had an iPhone, I vacationed solo in Costa Rica. This was also the time of the point and shoot Canon camera and the…