Amara in Training

My stories of training & racing around the world

  • 2014 Charity Fundraising Announcement: Stand Up to Cancer

    Hi folks! It’s that time of year again were I announce my fundraising efforts for the 2014 racing season. Since I have (haphazardly) already finished my first race of the season (with at least seven more to… Read more

  • Week 4+5 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Just Show Up

    It seems like the weeks just zoom on by. Less than a month to Hawaii…and a month and a few days until Seafair. Oy vey! I’ve been pushing the distances a bit, presumably testing to see if… Read more

  • 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.… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • Achieving Flow

    I went for my morning swim today. It was only a half mile and it kicked my butt. It made me kind of sad. A half mile used to be my warmup, before I broke my leg.… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • Turning a Setback into a Comeback

    When you’re off kilter, the name of the game is to build new habits. I’m currently working on a new experiment. I’m aiming for 5 days a week of exercise and 2 salads a day. So far… Read more

  • This Is My Broken Leg Rant

    Not a lot of action on the blog, mainly because there hasn’t been a lot of training on my end! Turns out that the last time I went skiing, I did not sprain my ankle. No, no…there… Read more

  • 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… Read more