Amara in Training

Tag: consistency

  • Race Recap: 2013 Rock n Roll Portland Half Marathon

    So I’ve had Rock n Roll Portland on my list for quite awhile now. I was really happy to knock this one off my list! This particular half marathon was very important to me since it was my first official long run since I sprained my ankle a few months ago. Thankfully, it held up…

  • 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…

  • 99 Days + 4.5 Races To Go Until My First Ironman

    I don’t think you can fully appreciate a full 48 hours of rest until you go through Ironman training. My weekly training is stacked like a part-time job: 14 hours here, 15 hours here, 17 hours there, eventually it’ll increase to almost 18-20 hours a week. Can you imagine what type of progress you can…

  • Week 11 + 12 Ironman Louisville Training: It All Sounds Like Crazy Talk

    The tumultuous journey is practically half over. 12 weeks out of a 24 week plan?! I don’t feel half ready!! This post wraps up the last two weeks a bit early — I still have two more workouts tomorrow — but I’ll be heading out for my flight at 5am and I need to catch…

  • Week 5 Ironman Louisville Training: Blood, Sweat, and Tears

    This week has been hard. Really hard. Work stress has been piling up, leaving me with unpleasant things like work-related nightmares. That can’t be good. I almost saw a child die on my long bike ride on Saturday. I almost got T-boned when a minivan decided to run a red light today after I dropped…

  • 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…