a love letter to my dumb bike trainer.

We’re snow deep in winter right now, which means one thing: lots of time on the bike trainer. Teammates and friends are posting Zwift workouts, and I recently finished a 28-day bike block (my third go-round of it), which got me thinking: what is…

02/14/2020

what i’m loving: january 2020

Kicking off a newish series this year – a mashup of my past currently and favorite things posts. In this series, I share my favorite things from the past month – the podcast that’s playing during my commute, the book I can’t put down,…

02/01/2020

you were good, 2019.

It’s been a few years since I’ve written a year-end reflection, for no other reason than I didn’t have much to say. This year feels different, though. Far from previous years, it revolved around life outside triathlon – and that was incredibly refreshing. It…

01/12/2020

race report: twin cities marathon

Racing’s taken a backseat this year – more on the season of travel and fun later – but I knew I had to do something. So after my hammie (mostly) healed and I was home long enough to string together some consistent weeks of…

12/13/2019

running thoughts vol. 2: recovery.

A big focus of my marathon training has been recovery. It obviously should always be a significant part of any training plan, but I’ve made extra time for this build because of my hamstring injury (now I just need to add more strength training…

09/30/2019

running thoughts vol. 1.

It’s weird when your weekends don’t revolve around a Sunday long ride. And it’s even weirder (and harder?!) when your husband’s out riding centuries every Sunday as he preps for IRONMAN Louisville (his first full since 2015!). The quiet after he leaves the house:…

09/09/2019

training this year (and what i’m racing!).

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and probably even longer since I’ve written anything about training. There honestly hasn’t been much to share – but that could just be my perspective! When swimbikerun is your lifestyle, you don’t necessarily think it’s exciting and…

08/19/2019

6 favorite things in june 2019.

Most of my favorite things in month were from our elopement to Hawaii (more details on our entire trip soon!). Because triathlon’s pretty much taken all of my money the past few years, I really haven’t bought a whole lot of non-tri stuff. Sure,…

06/28/2019