This week I spent five days with my family in the hospital – nothing necessarily urgent or life threatening but something private. I didn’t hydrate well, I didn’t eat and when I tried to go out Read More …
Ah! It feels good to be back to my pace … to not have to sprint too hard, or go too fast but just hold steady for a long, long time. Sure, there are tempo Read More …
I sometimes think that if I write with confidence, or if I write that I am becoming more confident in my training, its like the confidence drains from me onto my computer and I am Read More …
I get my stubbornness from my dad. It has served me well many times in my life; times when I didn’t give up on something, and times when I stuck to my guns and followed Read More …
The latter part of this week was certainly better than how it began. I was leaving Portugal via a detour in Spain which meant an eight hour road trip to Madrid on Monday, and a Read More …
Though I haven’t posted about it, I have trained for the past three weeks! I do want to get back to my weekly updates so here is a recap of what has been going on Read More …
This week has been fantastic! My training is not what it would be back home, so I get nervous wondering if it is “enough.” Yet it is challenging, and I do think I am getting Read More …
This week my IronMan training derailed. We left on Saturday night to Spain and have spent the week walking, sightseeing, and being total tourists. I had three chances to run in the morning, but that Read More …
I had to do a lot of switching around my workouts this week to accommodate a weekend getaway where I rode on Florida mountains. Yes you read it right, Florida has a few, small hills Read More …
In my real life (as opposed to my training) this has been a transition week since my job as a teacher ended. I had visions of what life without a “real job” would be and Read More …
