Amara in Training

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  • Week 3 Ironman Louisville Training: Hope is Not a Strategy

    This week was a great week. I’m coming off a high of a pretty awesome training week. I really feel like things are coming together. It’s not easy but I’m seeing progress (despite setbacks here and there). I spent some time combing through my training plan this week, doing research on the swim/bike/run route in…

  • Week 2 Ironman Louisville Training: Challenges and Changes

    My birthday week was one of my most successful training weeks yet! I made it to all of my workouts with exception of taking Wednesday night off. I was incredibly exhausted from training and found that I had actually trained 10 days in a row, so taking an evening off didn’t kill a streak or…

  • The Training Day That Tested My Patience

    Uhm…what a day. It wasn’t a particularly busy or difficult day by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly tested my patience. Having been exhausted from the night before (mostly emotionally), I tried to face Monday as a new day. My alarm was set for 6am so that I could get some design work…

  • Week 1 Ironman Louisville Training: Love Yourself Enough to Work Harder

    It’s my first week of my official Ironman training and it went better than expected. Of course there were highs (finally hitting my stride in the pool and gaining some smoothness in the water) and the lowest of lows (retching over on a Friday morning at 4am due to not-so-good veggie patties and breaking down into…

  • Week 13 + 14 Base Training: Relentless Forward Progress

    These were rather light-duty weeks. I was incredibly busy with work and things have taken a turn for the crazy, so I haven’t been able to keep up as well as I used to. I’ve also been inside my own head for a bit this month, ruminating on a lot of things in the past…

  • Week 12 Base Training: Are We There Yet?

    My theme of the week was… Patience. Because of my impatient nature, I tried to muscle my way through an exercise towards the end of the week and ended up hurting my shoulder. Based on my work in massage therapy I knew there was something up with my rotator cuff. It felt mostly like a…

  • Race Recap: 2013 Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon Arizona

    Despite the tragedy surrounding race weekend, it went pretty well. Everything prior to the expo was a bit of a blur. I quickly picked up all of my race swag and headed out to wander the expo for a few hours. I picked up a few safety items — a Brooks night running jacket and…

  • Week 9 Base Training: In Memory of Ron Gehring

    There was a lesson I learned not too long ago in a meditation class about presence. It wasn’t so much about being present in every moment (although that was the key take away from such a practice). No, it was more about the energy of people who were truly present in your lives. At this meditation…

  • Week 8 Base Training: Be Fearless

    I’m tired and I can’t think straight, so here’s a few things to consider before I jump into my recap. Recap of week 8 base training: 14.1 hours; 6,816 yards of swimming; 35.75 miles of biking, 17.88 miles of running. Monday, January 7: Personal training session in the morning with my coach. 5 min bike warmup,…