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...
View ArticleCoeur 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...
View ArticleCoeur 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...
View ArticleValley 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...
View ArticleIronman 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...
View ArticleIronman 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...
View ArticleCDA 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...
View ArticleBoise 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...
View ArticleBoise 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...
View ArticleIronman 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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