Health

So, today the workout was as follows: Warm-up 10 minutes in middle-middle chainrings. Repeat the following drill set TWICE. Stay in big ring up front the entire workout, Shift to 3rd from largest ring in back. Alternate removing one foot from the pedal …

So, is this the most gorgeous family you’ve ever seen, or what? This is my brother Jeff’s brother, David. Yeah, that sounds weird. Let me explain. Jeff and I met at the Kindergarten bus stop when we were like 5 years old. We hit it off and perhaps more …

…couch potato time!!! This is HOW I got on my “Ironman quest.” Back in the summer, I went to Tony Robbins “Unleash The Power Within” (the “firewalk thing”) with my bff Maria. I was pretty depressed about the economy, my sorry state of health and fitn …

Arrrrgh – just had a computer hiss-fit and it pulled down what I had already written here. Grrrrr…OK, “hit Save hit Save hit Save.” There now I might remember it… SO, yesterday was Kickoff day for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Train …

Thanks to Kelownagurl, here is a link to an article on Forefoot Running. I am posting it here because I will be able to find it again. Hey, a cluttered brain is next to godliness…because the devil would get STUCK in there sortin’ stuff out. S

Saturday is “D Day” – the first day with Team In Training where they get to see my face and hand me a training schedule. Yikes. I’m getting more and more “wary” about the whole thing as time progresses, but I am also listening to more triathlon-related …

Before I signed up for the Louisville Ironman Triathlon in August 2010, I actually called and discussed it with my husband. We were on the phone for quite some time, discussing time commitment, work versus workout, and lots of things like that. I was a …

I received the following note from a long-time friend of mine. We recently hooked back up via Facebook (isn’t Facebook great?) She saw that I was training for the Ironman through Team In Training, and shared the following: My dad was diagnosed with Non …

I got out and swam today – and the fire is LIT! I haven’t been in a pool, really swimming, for about 3 years. Wow. I forgot how much I like it. OK, so I only did 10 lengths kicking, 16 lengths freestyle (one beat kick), 10 lengths kicking, and then 2 l …

HALLELUJAH! I’m so excited. I can’t even believe it. I received my first donation towards the IRONMAN. One of my teammates, Maria Afan, is an “old hand” at doing Team In Training. She has done two marathons through them – one in Rome (GO GRRL!) and one …