Posts Tagged ‘triathlon’
The People in My Neighborhood: The Planner
Sometimes, you meet people in one capacity, and you never think that you’ll see them in other capacities. Sometimes our friends are silo’ed. They stay in their individual little places. We call them when we want specific things: I have friends I got out Drinking [Read More]
The things they ate
During an Ironman, you consume all sorts of high-tech food. Engineered stuff, crafted to hit the sweet spot between high-quality fuel and optimized ease of digestion. If that jargon isn’t enough to make your head spin, well…you should take a look at the labels [Read More]
iron stuff in my grey matter
For the longest time I thought I’d feel good about completing Ironman, and not in the traditional manner of having done something big and unprecedented for myself. More, I thought I’d be relieved to have Ironman training go away completely, have it be not a part of my [Read More]
Iron Girl, Iron Guy, and the Iron Maiden (Part II)
Are you keeping track of the number of hours I’ve logged in as sleep since Tuesday night? I was, as I lay awake on Saturday night, the night before the race I’d taken six months out to train for. Jim crowded into my twin berth with me and hugged me while I [Read More]
Iron Girl, Iron Guy, and the Iron Maiden, Part I (pre-race days)
…Me, Jim, and Lara, respectively, that is. It’s over. Almost exactly 24 hours ago to the minute, I crossed the finish line at Ironman Switzerland 2009, and I must confess to harboring all sorts of unresolved emotions about the thing. I am proud of my friends and [Read More]
IRONMAN SWITZERLAND
Watch them go Sunday July 12th, 2009 here: http://www.ironmanlive.com [Read More]
Run, don’t walk
…that’s something that we’ll cover today in this installment of the triathlon primer. The last leg of any triathlon is the run. There are one or two things you should know. Things you should know -Your legs are going to feel like crap after you’ve [Read More]
Riding a bike is not what you thought it is
It’s a sticky, slightly breezy day today, like it has been most days here, with a pretty good chance of thunderstorms. Last night, our neurotic dog woke up needing to potty twice, which is bizarre for him, but…what do you do? You pull on your outside clothes; [Read More]
Hey, those are some nice legs
…I speak, of course, of the legs of a triathlon. There are three: swim, bike run. Let’s break it down, shall we? Swim Legend goes that triathlon organizers built triathlon to be in the order it is now because the swim is the area that’s the most dangerous. [Read More]
A triathlon primer
I’ve been involved in multi-sport since 2001, and started doing triathlons back in 2003 as part of a project to get more urban women involved in outdoor sport (“Yes! You *can* have a two-martini dinner and still go for a five-mile run when you get home!”) [Read More]
