Amara in Training

Category: Personal Development

  • Choose Your Thoughts and Choose to Believe Them

    Before you start reading a post like this, you have to cue the music. (Here’s the link.) Don’t forget to turn up the speakers. I’ll wait. Every once in awhile, I’m reminded that life will throw you the proverbial shit sandwich. It will also throw these aforementioned shit sandwiches in spades when given the opportunity.…

  • What You Seek Is Seeking You

    I came across a saying the other week: “What you seek is seeking you.” There was a certain peace and comfort that I found in that phrase. For as long as I remember, I’ve been looking and seeking for a lot: I’ve been looking for a life of accomplishment, things worthy of my pursuit, and…

  • You Only Get To Be A Beginner Once

    There was a time in my life when I was enrolled in one of those 3-month programming schools. Right before I dropped out to take a full-time design job with Amazon, Jared Tame, my mentor at Bloc, shared this golden nugget with me: “You only get to be a beginner once.” I’ve thought quite a…

  • Keep Climbing and Fall Forward

    Well before I resume the hustle bustle of the workweek, I like to take a short bit of time to reflect on the things I’ve done, and the time that I’ve spent. They say that what you spent your New Years Day doing is you’ll spend your new year doing. I wonder if they are…

  • 2704 miles + 448 hours = 2013

    So this year was an amazing year in many respects. I’ve traveled 2,704.9 miles in 448 hours. I somehow managed to hit some pretty great highs and some awful lows all in the span of twelve months. It included: -6 races: 3 half marathons, my first 2 Olympic tris, and 1 half Ironman -My mom…

  • Triathlon Is Not A Solitary Sport: Here’s 70.3 Miles of Dedications

    On the cusp of my first half Ironman race, I thought I’d take the time to do something I’ve been thinking about since my first marathon…I wanted to dedicate each mile of my race to someone important to me. Triathlon is definitely not a solitary sport. Sure, you train alone, but it’s really the journey…

  • Week 11 HITS 70.3 Palm Springs Training: One Step At A Time

    So I promise you one thing: after I write this week’s nothing recap blog, I’m going to clear out my TrainingPeaks 140.6 plan and actually put together a real, feasible plan for the next 6 (and some change) weeks until the 70.3. I foresee a lot more time on the bike, a handful of 10+…

  • Week 10 HITS 70.3 Palm Springs Training: Respect The Distance

    7 weeks (and some change) until the big day. These last four weeks or so I’ve been resetting my expectations for a lot of parts of my life. Things haven’t been easy. I oscillate between my highs and lows pretty frequently. I’m really just trying to take things day by day. I’ve lost a big…

  • You Can’t Run Away From the Quantified Self

    When I first started my health and fitness journey with running a few years ago, I logged every mile and for a stretch, logged every morsel I ate. I think that measurement gave me a barometer by which I could measure progress. I could see when I stalled, when I made progress, when I was…