Browsing Tag

run

  • giveaway // minnesota state flag day 5k

    Updated 05.11.2014: Congrats to Heidi for winning!  Hard to believe, but I’ve only ran one 5k since high school – and, it wasn’t chip timed.  Not sure why other than the endurance junkie in…

    06/04/2014
  • IMWI training update.

    The countdown is ON!  How is Ironman Wisconsin only 100 days away?! I couldn’t be more excited – for race day and to climb that hill! Training has been humming along, a steady rhythm…

    05/30/2014
  • on getting better.

    Halfway through an ohmygod-I-can’t-breathe-and-my-arms-may-fall-off interval swim last Thursday morning, Nick said to me from the lane over: If you aren’t pushing it, you won’t get better.  I had been complaining that 200s sucked, cursing…

    03/19/2014
  • returning to running + the AlterG.

    After a three-month hiatus to let my heel heal, returning to running has been a slow process… think five-minute intervals at 5.9 mph on the treadmill. Not fast and not far by any means,…

    03/14/2014
  • listen up // anytime fitness podcast

    I’ve mentioned it in passing before, but in case you don’t know, I am the public relations manager at Anytime Fitness corporate. Although I don’t often mesh my work and personal lives, I feel…

    02/06/2014
  • a few thoughts on training.

    We’ve been in an arctic icebox in Minnesnowta, with temps not climbing above zero for most of the last week; factoring in wind chill (air temp was -25°), it felt like 50 below here…

    01/10/2014
  • 2013 wrap-up.

    Twenty-thirteen was filled with all around awesomeness. Between two passport stamps – the Bahamas and Canada – and several road trips (Austin, Hallock twice and Madison), there was lots of swimbikerun, niece Finley’s arrival,…

    01/03/2014
  • running update: a boot

    My heel’s been bothering me for about six weeks, and per coach’s orders, I haven’t ran for nearly a month. And, after Wednesday’s doctor’s appointment (also my birthday!), it looks like running’s out for…

    12/23/2013