Monday, July 23 – such a luxuriously lazy rest day! Not kidding, I sat my arse on the sofa as soon as I got home from work and barely moved until I crawled into bed. Oh, post-race relaxation joy… 🙂 Tuesday, July 24 –…
Four a.m. is reaaally early when you only get three hours of sleep…! Thanks to race anxiety + anticipation and too much sleep the night before, shuteye was elusive Saturday night. I tossed and turned for at least two hours before I finally drifted off. When the…
Monday, July 16 – a much needed rest day! Tuesday, July 17 – it was a sticky one at tonight’s P2 run workout. We met at the Macalaster track, and after recapping the weekend’s races and training sessions, we headed out for a 60-minute…
On Sunday morning, all the season’s sweat and hours of swimbikerunning (80 since April 30 to be exact) roll into one day of limit-pushing, endorphin-inducing, body-aching wonderfulness of my first 70.3. Do I feel ready? Hmm…. When I think of all the workouts where…
Race day started in a flash when my eyes flew open, 90 minutes after the alarm was supposed to sound. Nick and I scrambled out of bed, each of us on autopilot making PB + jelly toast, brewing espresso, packing up last minute gear.…
Monday, July 9 – it couldn’t have been more perfect outside – sunny, 90 degrees, no breeze – for a late afternoon swim at Highland Park Aquatic Center. If only my attitude would have matched. I’m trying so hard to love it, but ugh……
I know I’m not alone in my fear of open water swimming. There’s been twitter talk between friends about it recently and procrastination of even toeing the lake water (yes, I’m guilty of this one, too). Frayed Laces just wrote about how to face…
There’s rarely a trip out of town when the bikes aren’t in tow. Mine’s traveled to the rusty red roads of western North Dakota, my hometown in northwestern Minnesota, scorching Oklahoma, and later this year, to sunny Panama City for Ironman Florida. So when…