My goal for the first half of this year was to learn to swim well enough to complete a triathlon. If you know me, that’s a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) as water and I don’t usually mix. I’ve yapped on and on about my struggles with swimming, Masters Swim, open water swim, you name [Read More]
Meatless Monday Matcha
In case you missed it over the weekend, I AM A TRIATHLETE! It was a wild day with some horrendous weather but that’s nothing new to me, right? I can’t wait to tell you all about it but while I’m putting the race report together, I’m also sipping this for recovery: I’ve wanted to try [Read More]
Race Week To-Do List
I love when I get questions from new runners and lately I’ve gotten a lot. I’m going to chip away at them here so everyone can benefit. If you have a question or topic you’d like me to cover, hit me up. Today the focus is on race week. You may know it’s race week [Read More]
Thinking Out Loud: Face-in-Lake Edition
OWS. That’s open water swim in case you wondered. I finally did my first one yesterday. My tri coach took me to a sweet baby lake, but in my head might as well have been an angry surf off the coast of Kona. We squeezed into our wetsuits and went for it. The sandy bottom [Read More]
Tips for Running in Heat
This week’s Tuesdays on the Run topic is a timely one: Running in heat. Although it’s been a relatively cool spring here so far, the heat seems to be rolling in. Since the very hot and cancelled Chicago Marathon 2007 was my first, and I finished, upright with a smile (ok a fake one), I [Read More]
You’re Made for So Much More
First here’s how last week’s workouts went: Miles run: 14 Miles Bike: 55 Swim: 5500 yds. Monday: Masters Swim 1 hr. + yoga Tuesday: 1 hr bike, 4 miles run Wednesday: 6 miles run, mile repeats+hill repeats Thursday: Cycle 20 miles Friday: Rest Saturday: 45 min swim (in wetsuit), 1 hr bike, 30 min run with [Read More]
Currently: School’s Out Edition
I’m in this weird place where Thing 1 has been out of school for a week now but Thing 2 still has a couple of days left. So I’m doing the school schedule (up early, school lunches/homework/dropoff, bus schedule etc.) and the summer vacay schedule (sleepovers, parties, carting kids to the mall/pool etc) and it’s [Read More]
Wahoo Fitness TICKR X Review
To celebrate National Running Day, I’m giving away a running and fitness gadget that I’m super loving right now: The Wahoo Fitness TICKR X. I told you about the Wahoo Fitness TICKR X before and how cool it is. It’s a heart rate monitor and so much more. Wear the strap up, around your rib [Read More]
Weekend Update and a Freekeh Pilaf
Gosh it was a crazy weekend, not to mention the weather suuucked. Saturday was a rain-all-day affair. Sunday it was just plain cold. And crazy windy. There was lots of child taxi action. To parties. And playdates. And sleepovers. And movies, oh my. Tomorrowland wasn’t my bag but it made Thing 2 happy so there’s [Read More]
May(hem) Runfessions
Can you believe May is just about finito and it’s time for another edition of Runfessions? Today, and the last Friday of every month, we purge our dirty little run- gym- and swimfessions and share them here. Join us and link em up below. I promise you’ll feel better! Let’s get to it: My tri [Read More]
