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triathlon training

  • 2018 wrap up.

    The blog may have taken a backseat this year (and in 2017), but we’ve been busy living and loving life. And that hasn’t involved staring at my laptop after staring at a screen for…

    01/08/2019
  • weekend highlights.

    What a weekend! It felt luxuriously long, full of potential (hello, 2017!) and was filled with all of my favorite things.  Highlights included: + All the snuggles and a shivery winter walk with Luma.…

    01/02/2017
  • the extra mile.

    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…

    02/26/2015
  • 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
  • currently: april 2014

    Life has been humming right along, and with inspiration from Kate at 365 til…, here’s a look at what’s been up lately. Currently… reading I recently finished Jim Whittaker’s A Life on the Edge.…

    04/18/2014
  • 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
  • on the trainer // setting it up

    This is the second post in the series, on the trainer. I still remember putting my bike on the trainer for the first time; I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and…

    02/08/2014