Amara in Training

Category: Triathlon Training

  • Week 2+3 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Stay Overzealous, Friends

    Hi party people! Four weeks in to my new training regimen and I’m feeling good. Still squeezing workouts into random time pockets in my calendar but at least I feel like things are somewhat back to normal. Week 2 was particularly momentous because I got some wonderful news: my fracture was completely healed up, and…

  • 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…

  • It All Works Out In My Favor

    So with this broken leg still a’healing, and my free time at an absolute black market premium nowadays, I’ve considerably scaled back my Ironman goals this year. There is simply not enough time to get in the requisite base training at this point for me to comfortably tackle a full 140.6 event by year’s end.…

  • Race Recap: 2013 HITS 70.3 Championship Palm Springs

    It is not everyday that you can say that you had a perfect race…but I had the most perfect race that anyone could have dreamed of! Mind you, a part of this journey included: a (minor) black eye, a painfully popped blister on my pinky toe, 30MPH gusts of headwind and crosswind, and a potential…

  • On Fear and Falling

    Ladies and gents, I am so happy right now. Like, bursting at the seams happy. So, finally after many months/years of this weird mental game of being scared of clipping in, I decided to give it a go again. And guess what? I did it! I’m still in one piece! It might sound kind of…

  • Two Weeks Until Race Day

    I’ve had a decent stretch over the last few weeks getting back into training for my impending half Ironman. To think that I could lapse out of training and kind of pick back up where I left off is nothing short of astonishing, really. And a little punishing. To give me enough buffer time so…

  • An Extended Season Retrospective: Remember Why You Started

    So if you’ve been following my training lately, you’ll probably notice that I’ve logged significantly less time swimming, biking, running. After about 11 months of intense training (as well as the ebbs and flows that come with it), and all the stressors that come with life in general, I think my body finally gave in.…

  • My 7-Week Training Forecast

    Starts off at 13:30 a week. Tops out at 16:30 a week. The goal is to leave room for two consecutive rest days on the weekend, so that I may actually get a chance to enjoy my weekends doing non-training related stuff. Wednesdays by far are the hardest day since I stack all of my…

  • I Wish You Could See What I See

    As I’m sitting here enjoying a warm bowl of oatmeal and a mug of white tea, I’m reflecting on one of my best open water swims I’ve ever had. I have a hot compress to my feet, my heater is on full blast. And my cats are nodding off. It’s warm, cozy. Snuggly even. About…