My stories of training & racing around the world
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Week 5 HITS 140.6 Palm Springs Training: Doubt Kills More Dreams Than Failure Ever Will
Five weeks down, thirteen to go. It’s been a challenging training week. I ordered my bike trainer and all my new indoor cycling equipment for the training season ahead. I’m skydiving on Saturday and meeting with my… Read more
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Race Recap: 2013 Lake Stevens Olympic Triathlon
So, let me tell you about a time when I finished last place. You read that right, last place. I headed out to Lake Stevens with my training group. There was a handful of us who had… Read more
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Week 4 HITS 140.6 Palm Springs Training: Inspire Through Example
Le sigh. SIGH SIGH SIGH. I feel like I’ve made some good progress with swimming this summer. However, I’ve made almost zero progress with my cycling. I think I have actually digressed because at the beginning of… Read more
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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… Read more
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HITS 140.6 Palm Springs: Racing for a Cause
So, after much deliberation, I finally narrowed down my fundraiser to three charities. Well, technically I couldn’t decide between three charities, so I’ve decided to fundraise for all three of them: I’ve decided to dedicate portions of… Read more
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Week 2+3 HITS Palm Springs Training: A Twisted Ankle, and Then Some
Oh boy. I got one good training week in and then BAM — I was hit with another twist to the ankle on my morning run. I was down by half my training time this week (week… Read more
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Week 1 HITS Palm Springs 140.6 Training: Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy
With Ironman Louisville in my hypothetical rear-view mirror, I plodded along and laid down the plans for my new backup race in Palm Springs. This morning I thought about the last four weeks and how I’d been… Read more
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Race Recap: Seafair Olympic Triathlon 2013
A new race distance only means one thing…an automatic PR! So I wasn’t fast, but I finished with a smile on my face. That was the goal all along. The team (and then some) were at the… Read more
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Move Over Louisville…I’m heading to Palm Springs for my 140.6
So there’s been a lot of developments lately in my personal life, some of it good and some of it bad. For many reasons — I didn’t have enough base training/fitness in the bank…because I was out… Read more
Amara in Training 