Browsing Tag

swim

  • training weekend in the wisco woods.

     Wisco didn’t disappoint this past weekend.  After a 13.5-mile run along the Mississippi on Friday – it’s fun when you PR on a training run – Nick and I packed our swimbikerun gear and headed to…

    07/16/2014
  • 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
  • where i swim // saint paul edition

    I grew up in northern Minnesota, 20 miles south of the Canadian border not too far from Winnipeg. My graduating class… just 39 people. Needless to say, my high school didn’t have a pool…

    04/14/2014
  • 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
  • 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 day in the life…

    We’re deep in the doldrums of winter here in Minnesnowta, and though I’ve noticed it’s staying light out a little bit later each day, summer can’t get here soon enough. Thankfully, between work and…

    01/22/2014
  • 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