Saturday H and I got up to Yountville to ride the Tour of Napa Valley route with a good portion of the IronPeeps. I hadn’t seen folks in what seemed like forever! (Pre-Half Iron/Sedona.) That day, there were a handful who went down to Monterey for a ride, another chunk were in the East Bay […]
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My Own Special Boot Camp
Writing this a bit longer than a week after – trying to catch up! As H was gone at his mother’s funeral in Austria for a little over a week, I was not sleeping well and therefore a bit of a basket case when last weekend’s “Boot Camp” came a-callin’. As previously posted, I also had […]
AriaVelo.com Bike Fit and a few more things from last week
On Tuesday (yes, I am “blogging backwards”), Coach Mike K, Helen, Mentor Margaret, Iron Melissa, Susie, Lessanjen (you know, like ‘Brangelina’ (smile)), Paula and I did our Lactate Threshold test at my house. It was a LOT of fun to have everyone over, especially on the day that H left for Austria. Doing the test […]
Easter/Passover “You Know You’re Iron Whens”
I’m having a lot of fun and other folks are great being “game” and sending these! I wonder if I should make up a Tshirt in the end, with all of these on the back?? YOU KNOW YOU’RE IRON WHEN… …you wear your tri shorts under your church clothes so you can go directly to […]
Snoozin’ Through Boot Camp
Well, as I’m treating this as the History of Transformation from Couch Potato to Iron Woman, I guess it’s time to talk about the “bad” as well as the “good.” Since coming back from Sedona, I’ve had a serious case of malaise. I’ve swum a couple of times, H and I did a 36 mile […]
The First Annual Sedona 1/2 Ironman!
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.” 19th Century Writer W. D. Howells. When H and I made our reservations a year and a half ago to come to Sedona for a week, the only thing that we thought we’d be doing was a little hiking and wildflower-watching (okay, and margarita-drinking). AH, […]
Angelina Hits The Road!
Just a quickie update – but Angelina has NOW hit the road! No photos – I wasn’t sure I wanted it memorialized! H and I took Vlad and Angelina out yesterday. We actually put Angelina’s clipless pedals on Vlad (my friction-downtube-shift-pedal basket bike I have ridden up to now), because I was decompensating about having to […]
Swimming In S.F. Bay, Running the Presidio, Beach Calesthenics, Marin Metric Century
What a weekend. Seriously. We had had guests on Friday for dinner and then a friend spend the night, but I was careful not to even suggest champagne, wine, cocktails, etc. because I knew that this would definitely not help with the long weekend ahead. I got up Saturday and prepared my stuff for the day, […]
A Sissy’s Icebath
It’s Monday, and I am sitting down to blog about the lollapaloozah training weekend . . . but I thought I’d first blog about taking ice baths. These really do work. I remember when I was in the Marines and when I first started having the knee issues, they would shuttle me over to the […]
Turkeys and Time
Yeah NOW we’re talkin’…I found this picture and I’m quite sure that we could have a nice feast in our neighborhood, if it just wasn’t verboten to take the lives of the flock of turkey-shaped alarm clocks that are now living in our trees. Oy! They got us up at 5:00 this morning…H is going […]