Posts Tagged "running"

Last year, I had growing back my toe nails, as one of my high priorities… With all nails fully intact, here are a few of my 2012/13 “Off Season” Priorities:   10. Hiking.   Walking around isn’t something that I do much of while spending so much of my time swimming, biking and running. Why take the stairs when you can take the elevator? Why use any energy at all when you should save it up for workouts? Oh yeah, us triathletes are tons of fun. (Cyclists aren’t much better, right Ali?).   9. Paddle Boarding.   I have YET to actually go paddle boarding. I’ve been tantalized by my friends and family with all sorts of amazing paddle boarding pictures in exotic locations (thanks, Alz, for NOT waiting for me! Grrrr). This year, I’m...

The “off season” is a term that triathletes throw around as an excuse to do everything they deny themselves during the “on season.” But what is “off season,” really, and how does one avoid sounding like a total tri geek when they start talking about theirs?*   Triathlon – and sport – is a way of life. Once “off season” starts, do we really morph into candy and chip-eating, sedentary couch potatoes, with four layers of fat and our most strenuous activities involving flipping the remote or padding to the kitchen in slippers for another bowl of ice cream? Hardly (at least not for any extended period of time).   While we may feel as if our skin is crawling from inactivity, what happens in winter is a far cry from what most would...

“After the llamas, after the goats, take a right turn…. Oh wait. It’s the other way… A LEFT past the horses, THEN the goats.” These are directions I received for my first bike ride into downtown Boise from my cousin’s home. As a ranch girl, I was instantly in love with this quintessentially Western town nestled in Idaho’s foothills. In describing the weather here, however, my cousin said, “In Idaho, if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.”  And I knew from my sister, who recently raced the Exergy Tour, that the weather was bound to change. And change it certainly did. Arrival weather: warm, big puffy clouds, giant blue sky. Race day forecast: wet, cold, windy.  This pretty much sums it up: But, armed with my new Shiv, dubbed...

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As my last race of the 2011 season, Ironman 70.3 Miami was a pretty special one. For one, it came after a few weeks of training with some of my favorite people in Clermont, FL, and some fun-filled, solid training sessions – good for the soul kind of stuff. I drove down to the race on Friday, an adventure that took far longer than I expected due to tropical storms and all-too-frequent bathroom stops (hey, I was hydrating). I arrived in Miami tired and ready for bed but ended up going straight to dinner to meet some new friends – Leanda and Katherine. : ) So while the rest of Miami was dressed in costumes and Friday night going out attire, there I was in a restaurant, wearing compression and a sports top feeling every bit as cool as that sounds. Then...