Amara in Training

Category: Swimming

  • Desert’s Edge Make-up Sprint Tri 2018

    Desert’s Edge Make-up Sprint Tri 2018

    I had a DNS (did not start) earlier this season for a sprint triathlon. This was already a downgrade from the half ironman for which I was training. There were a lot of things out of my control that required that I pull out of the event, and the race director was nice enough to…

  • Week 5+6 Desert’s Edge Tri Training: A Little Bit of Adventure

    Week 5+6 Desert’s Edge Tri Training: A Little Bit of Adventure

    The antibiotics are done and the cold/flu has mostly worked itself out of me. The exhaustion is still lingering but I am able to get most of my rest. I’ve registered for the sprint distance, and oh boy, thank goodness I didn’t spring for the Olympic! I’ve made it into the pool a few times,…

  • And the Training Months Tick By…July and mid-August Recap

    Hmm. It’s been an interesting month. I don’t have a lot of time to go into too much detail about what’s been going on, but let’s recap:   -I went on a weeklong vacation to Waikiki with Erik. By day we hiked, ran, snorkeled, swam, surfed, boogey boarded, and by night we hopped skipped karaoke…

  • Week 0+1 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Making Time for Priorities

    I reached a point of terminal velocity with my schedule where I had somehow managed to wriggle out of all physical activity. (How did it ever come to that?!) Obviously my schedule had run amok and it was time to whip it back into shape. A 40-50-60-70-80 hour work week be damned — if I…

  • Resetting Expectations

    The thing with injuries is that it allows me ample time to reflect. An injury pretty much grinds all of my training plans to a screeching halt. The Whidbey Island Marathon in April (which was downgraded to a half marathon, which was then downgraded to a 10K) is definitely out of the picture. I think…

  • Open Water Swimming Without a Wetsuit

    My heart was pounding in my jaw. I spent more time being apprehensive about jumping into the water than actually being in the water. I had a fear that somehow, without my wetsuit, I would just sink to the bottom of the lake. Like some giant pair of hands would just come up from the…

  • Whatever You Do, Don’t Panic

    It has been said that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I definitely have this incessant need to plan and re-plan and re-work a plan. (It’s just necessary when things don’t go according to…er…plan!) Well, that’s partially from my parents too (they are expert planners) but I think I just like to…

  • Thanks to Triathlon, My 20-Hour Day Didn’t Faze Me

    I knew it was going to be a rough day when I rolled over in bed, picked up my phone, and saw that it was 3:30am. For the second or third morning in a row, I’ve slept quite late and woken up very early (before 5am early), and in my sleep I was dreaming about…

  • Olympic Tri (My Way) and Race Recap: Athleta Iron Girl 10K

    So sometime last night, when I was tossing and turning because I couldn’t fall asleep, I came up with this plan… I’ve been really annoyed lately that I can’t find a nearby triathlon that works with my schedule so i decided to do my own thing. (Story of my life.) I decided that since my…