Triathlon
Some of my Favorite Videos (Triathlon, Inspirational, etc.)
Posted on: April 21, 2010
Needed a little inspiration today – here are some of my favorites:
Read MoreSwim Marker Update – OK I feel better now…
Posted on: April 21, 2010
This was the email from Sedonia about the Swim Marker I did yesterday – I feel better now :-) – for some reason I can’t get the “titles” to go on or the columns to space correctly, but so it goes. The columns are: Marker, Distance, Time, Min (not sure …
Read MoreArgh – Swim Marker slowin’ down…
Posted on: April 20, 2010
Was out today to do a 2,000 swim marker – finished it in 42:18. I actually checked my watch when I was at my 1,000 and it was 21:14 – so I am pretty solid at that time. Teensy negative split. This means I’m actually slowing down. Grrr! And the funny pa …
Read MoreLather, Rinse, Repeat – Double Metric Century Weekend
Posted on: April 19, 2010
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 ri …
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My Own Special Boot Camp
Posted on: April 19, 2010
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’. A …
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Tagged: boot camp jcc marin osher jcc sprint triathlon triple triathlons
AriaVelo.com Bike Fit and a few more things from last week
Posted on: April 10, 2010
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, …
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Snoozin’ Through Boot Camp
Posted on: April 10, 2010
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 …
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The First Annual Sedona 1/2 Ironman!
Posted on: March 29, 2010
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.” 19th Century Writer W. D. Howells. driving into Sedona 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 …
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Tagged: 1/2 iron 70.3 You Know You're Iron When half iron half ironman hilton sedona zentriathlon; zen triathlon
Angelina Hits The Road!
Posted on: March 17, 2010
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 bi …
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Swimming In S.F. Bay, Running the Presidio, Beach Calesthenics, Marin Metric Century
Posted on: March 15, 2010
Ironteam at Aquatic Park – I'm in the middle/back, green cap 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 …
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