Dog under Desk
…This is what happens when I am in a terrible mood. Ergo, Sprocket is under my desk. Entirely. Where he does not fit. Here is the proof. This is also proof that I am in a terrible mood. I have…
Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009: Challenge
So Gwen Bell is doing this project, okay? It’s not really about getting people to read your stuff, it’s more an opportunity to reflect on all of the things that have happened over the course of 2009. We already know…
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…
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,…
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…
IRONMAN SWITZERLAND
Watch them go Sunday July 12th, 2009 here: http://www.ironmanlive.com
Odds and Ends
We leave for the airport to begin our trip to Zurich in about two hours. There are a few things on my mind. 1. I’ve been slowly falling apart over the past week. First, I banged my shin on our…
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…
Triathlon transitions
I had a very good weekend, training-wise and social-wise. We took our time, sleeping in a little bit and taking our time getting ready in the mornings, since our workouts were shorter now that we’re closer to D-Day, and that…
The Weekend that Started Early and Would Not End
Egads. It feels like I’ve been running on weekend time forever. It sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Except, see, for us, in these peak weeks of Ironman training, well, the weekends are when we do our long workouts:…
