Amara in Training

Tag: inspiration

  • Week 2+3 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Stay Overzealous, Friends

    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…

  • Week 0+1 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Making Time for Priorities

    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…

  • It All Works Out In My Favor

    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.…

  • Turning a Setback into a Comeback

    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…

  • This Is My Broken Leg Rant

    Not a lot of action on the blog, mainly because there hasn’t been a lot of training on my end! Turns out that the last time I went skiing, I did not sprain my ankle. No, no…there was no sprain. The leg itself was just broken. BROKEN. Uhg. First broken bone ever but at least…

  • Resetting Expectations

    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…

  • A Letter to My 30+ Year Old Self

    Tomorrow, you upgrade to your next triathlon age group: F 30-35! Your last decade was very interesting, wasn’t it? You finally got the big break in design that you’ve been looking for all of your life. Do you remember those nights as a teenager where you dreamed of calling your own shots, living a life…

  • Choose Your Thoughts and Choose to Believe Them

    Before you start reading a post like this, you have to cue the music. (Here’s the link.) Don’t forget to turn up the speakers. I’ll wait. Every once in awhile, I’m reminded that life will throw you the proverbial shit sandwich. It will also throw these aforementioned shit sandwiches in spades when given the opportunity.…

  • Keep Climbing and Fall Forward

    Well before I resume the hustle bustle of the workweek, I like to take a short bit of time to reflect on the things I’ve done, and the time that I’ve spent. They say that what you spent your New Years Day doing is you’ll spend your new year doing. I wonder if they are…