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Training and Moving

** You have one more day to enter my giveaway!! The last couple of weeks have been a little chaotic since I have decided to race the day before I move back to the U.S. I have the Baumholder Triathlon...

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Coeur d’Alene Olympic Triathlon 2010 Recap: Part 1

After tearing my house apart for 2 days prior to this race, I could not find my wetsuit anywhere. I could have sworn that I mailed it to myself after my last triathlon in Germany, but considering I...

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Coeur d’Alene Olympic Triathlon 2010 Recap: Part 2

The swim and the bike portion of this triathlon are covered in Part 1! The Run: 6.1 miles After the first two sports of this race NOT going well, I had very low expectations for the run. I had to pee...

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Valley Girl Sprint Triathlon

Racing this year feels so different from previous years.  The sick nervousness that used to plague me before races has become a distant memory.  I was happy and relaxed at this triathlon.  Granted, all...

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Ironman Arizona 2011: Pre Race Activities

I’m still in shock that I completed an Ironman on Sunday. It was an unbelievable day, and I feel incredibly fortunate to even have taken part in something like that. Since I have so much to say about...

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Ironman Arizona 2011: The Swim

If you missed the pre-race activities, click here. For the first time EVER, I was able to sleep the night before the a race. Who was I? Since I had set everything I needed out the night before, it only...

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CDA Polar Bear Plunge 2012

Happy New Year!! This year, some friends and I decided to start the New Year off with a run on the trails by our house and an exhilarating dip in the CDA lake in Idaho with a few hundred other equally...

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Boise 70.3 (I mean 26.3) Recap Part 1

So, wow. I still cannot believe that I even survived the Saturday two weeks ago. I’m not even kidding you. What a race!! Every single time that I saw one of my teammates last week who actually did the...

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Boise 70.3 (I mean 26.3) Recap Part 2

Continued from…. The Swim The horn went off. In my mind, it was too late to turn back. I was already in the water. It was time for survival mode. All the girls around me seemed to really be freaking...

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Ironman Lake Placid 2012: The Swim

I completed my second Ironman a little more than a week ago. It sounds crazy for me even to type that out. I took some chances with this one, and even though the last half of the race didn’t pan out...

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