Amara in Training

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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 tri coach on Sunday to work on bike handling and some of the basics. It’s been a challenge…

  • 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 which I could measure progress. I could see when I stalled, when I made progress, when I was…

  • 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 #2), and I’ve reloaded it on week 3 hoping that it doesn’t overload my week 4 which, coincidentally,…

  • 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 for a week with a dislocated shoulder, and then was out again for another week and a half…

  • Week 17 + 18 Ironman Louisville Training: Surgery + Post-Op Recovery

    This post will be relatively short since I spent week 17 in massive amounts of pain and eventually surgery. I spent week 18 recovering from my surgery, considering my racing/training options, hopped up on pain medications, handling personal family issues, and mentally prepping for a half-marathon since I couldn’t actually physically train. So, even though…

  • Week 16 Ironman Louisville Training: It All Goes Up From Here

    11 weeks left in my training plan. It was a good week, even though I was short two hours. I was short because one evening, I was coming down with some flu-like symptoms and canned my workout. The other was because of my bike shorts seams digging into me. The two hour ditch was meant…

  • Week 9+10 Ironman Louisville Training: Give Up Giving Up

    Week 7+8+9 were especially hard but I think in week 10 I’ve pulled through the slump I found myself in. The slump included some insecurity, mixed with a dash of sadness and depression, had some trauma flashbacks. These were the weeks that made me question a lot of my intentions. A lot of it had…

  • On Endurance

    Pardon me as I take a bit of a departure from the usual rhetoric of my blog. I’ve been itching — really, dying inside — to be able to lift the veil of what I’ve been willing to share here. Sometimes, things seem so pixel perfect on the surface, and perhaps they have been packaged…

  • How To Recover From a Sprained Ankle

    After a painful weekend, I think my ankle is well on the road to recovery. I’m finally able to walk without limping too much and I can finally ambulate crutch-free! (Plus, I was pretty sure that I was more of a hazard with my crutches than without.) Here are the things I did to get…