For Surf City, I was excited to fly in to So Cal to pace my best friend for her very first half marathon! The day before, I taught a full-day design bootcamp. It was a full class, so I was on my feet the entire day. Months beforehand, I had registered for the race and …
After being flogged at work and school for about six weeks straight, I was able to score a week or so off to hit up the slopes in Japan. It was my first international trip since I left LA, and my first trip to Japan, and it was awesome! The groomed beginner runs were challenging …
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For lack of a better way to combine the concurrent training threads, I'm now officially lumping them both together in the headline. The last few weeks have been insanely bizarre. Not only is my sleeping schedule all over the map, but so is my schoolwork and work-work (because when you say it twice, it's legit). …
Continue reading Monday Morning Stand Up: Seafair Weeks 6-7-8 + Portland Weeks 1-2-3 2014 Training
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 I could even be ready for the Olympic distance instead of a sprint. I think it'd be a …
Continue reading Week 4+5 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Just Show Up
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 …
Continue reading Week 2+3 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Stay Overzealous, Friends
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 …
Continue reading Week 0+1 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Making Time for Priorities
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. …
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 I've been successful a little over 50% of the time -- I logged three workouts last week (3/5 …
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 a half marathon, which was then downgraded to a 10K) is definitely out of the picture. I think …
Amara in Training 