I finally got to the doctor yesterday after suffering a lot longer than I probably should have with not feeling right. I really like my doctor; she’s smart, funny, and explains what she’s thinking and why. She took a look at me and said “your eyes tell me you have allergies, but let’s take a [...]

When you go to do a race, even one you’re just seeing as an organized training day with 5000 other people, do you take it easy, enjoy your day, and make it fun? Evidently, I don’t. I woke up late, got 2 miles from the house before I realized I didn’t have my visor or [...]

I’ve really been struggling, and not sure why, and when I got on the bike last night, it sure started out the same way. I had a 20 mile ride on the books, but because I had to wait until late to start I only got in 18. Rach started her coaching with Dr. Pain [...]

When I left you last, I was hoping I would recover from my recent battle with exhaustion (at least that’s what my publicist says to call it Warning NSFW) in order to put on a masterful race and start my season off with a bang. I woke up Saturday feeling just as I had the [...]

I’ve never had a worse week of workouts. My last scheduled work for the week was a simple 10 mile easy ride on the bike. By the time we got back to the house where Rach turned off to do the rest of her scheduled 15, I turned home and finished just shy of 10 [...]

While my workouts have been mostly a mess this week, I did have some good news this morning; Im now at my lowest weight of the year. Ive now lost 16 pounds, and I’m pretty happy about it. This is nice coming into race weekend as I have a little climbing to do on the [...]

People have always told me they love the positive upbeat vibe of my blog. Today is not going to be one of those days. – Monday I had a long swim and a run. Both workouts had an ok result for the day after an 11 hour car ride, but I felt AWFUL throughout both. [...]

It’s the first race of the year and I am absolutely stoked to be this close! I’ve been training hard for 3 months, and just winding down a little bit last week and this week in preparation. I’m a little nervous that I haven’t done an outdoor swim yet this year, so I’d like to [...]

5k’s are so short, that it’s hard to do them justice in a race report. You go, you run, it’s over. With it being that short of a race you’d also think there’s not much time for things to go wrong. Actually, there’s plenty of time for things to go wrong, it’s just that there’s [...]