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triathlon

  • ironman canada: finisherpix

    Despite having my own personal photographer at IRONMAN Canada – my sister takes amazing pics! – there were a few taken by on-course photographers I wanted to buy. Spending $25 per .jpg download, however,…

    11/06/2013
  • recent reads: october 2013

    Well, October certainly went by in a blink; and, if you blink too long now, you’ll miss the (what seems like) five hours of daylight. As much as I love autumn and the crunch…

    10/31/2013
  • life lately.

    Life has been, well, pretty normal lately. It’s been filled with normal non-triathlon things, like road cycling (well, that’s relative) and racing the sun (come back, summer!), yoga-ing with gal pals, catching up with…

    10/10/2013
  • second/shift athlete feature!

    A little feature over on Second/Shift Athlete today! Thank you, Colleen and Amy, for sharing my story! These rad ladies are up to cool things. I love the blog’s motive: We want to be your…

    09/24/2013
  • ironman canada: if you go

    This is my last post about IRONMAN Canada… I promise! When we registered for IRONMAN Canada last October, we were pretty clueless about the logistics. I figured we’d get around to booking lodging eventually…

    09/20/2013
  • continuing to recover… and, what’s next.

    In the two-plus weeks since Ironman Canada I’ve continued to eat like I’m still training – coconut macaroons for breakfast? Yes, please! – and occasionally have to remind myself that I did, in fact, race…

    09/14/2013
  • ironman canada: the run

    All I could think about during my 4:18 T2 was how bad I had to pee. Twenty-two miles is a long way to bike when you have to go! After the awesome volunteer dumped…

    09/11/2013
  • ironman canada: the bike

    Oh, the IRONMAN Canada bike! There were many long, slow climbs (thank you, 12-27 cassette), screaming descents (top speed = 46.4 mph!) and smiles the entire way. Like the swim, much of the bike…

    09/06/2013