A Little Physics
It’s Wednesday. According to my pal Hal (you know — Hal Higdon, creator of famous half marathon running plans), it’s either a cross-training day or I should be running 2 miles. Instead, I’m on the …
Category: tri
IronThoughts, Random Edition
(Ironman Race: 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of biking, 26.2 miles of running. 140.6 total miles of hell. Yes, all in one day.) I spent the long weekend down in lovely Panama Beach City, …
By the wayside
A triathlete friend of mine recently pulled me aside and asked me, point blank: “so, are you even a triathlete anymore? Or have you become a complete wuss and given up on the sport?” Well, …
Impossible?
In the midst of my internet meanderings, I came across a daily motivational quote on potential, and in the middle of it were these two sentences: “Think of all the things, once considered to be …
There’s something I forgot to mention…
. ____________________________________ Um, yea. Last fall? I registered myself for Ironman Wisconsin. Kind of on a whim. More of a “just on the weird offchance that I decide I want to do it, then I’ll have that …
Wisdom from the inside of a chocolate wrapper
“Be fearless.” Yup, that’s what the inside of the Dove Chocolate wrapper told me. And it can’t be wrong, can it? As I licked the wrapper clean of specks of chocolate (we wouldn’t want to …
Running Scared
Switching gears… I’m going headlong into marathon training for the next few months. Before this, I was intent on the half marathon up in Wisconsin (by the way, Half Marathon? November? Wisconsin??… what was I …
Now what?: New Directions
If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. –Chinese proverb I’ve decided to change my destination; once my January marathon is in the books, I’m …
Now what?
And… the end of the triathlon season. Now what? Free time. Hmmmm. Such a strange concept. What – you mean I don’t have to fit in 8-12 hours of training this week? I don’t have to …
Top 10 things I’ve learned this summer
Let’s review, shall we? 55 degree water isn’t as cold as you might think it is. And, conversely, it’s EVERY BIT as cold as you think it is. Thank god for neoprene! It’s always windy …