It is that time of the year again. The first triathlon of the season are upon us. Make your first a good one! Pre-race nerves coupled with your gear being untouched for months and your mind rusty on your race routine can cause chaos. This time, you'll be smart. [mk_dropcaps style="simple-style"]1)[/mk_dropcaps]Locate your Race Gear. All [...]
Over the years in sport as I carve out athletic progress in ways that make sense for me I’ve also navigated through seas of opinions. I have heard, “You take the sport too seriously.” “It is not like you are going to the Olympics,” Or on the flip-side, “You don’t take this sport seriously enough,” [...]
Posted a while back... a nice reminder! Sometimes you have to destroy your narrative. My athlete mind has been holding onto anger at myself for allowing situations to drag me down last summer. I let obstacles in life impact my training and racing. I had a narrative. I had a story about myself failing to [...]
Your training is awesome. You feel stronger than ever. Pushing new paces, meeting milestone mileage and keeping up with your hard training group are the norms for you. This could finally be your big year and you're secretly convinced you might just be invincible. Then, one terrible day you wake up and something isn't right. [...]
Though I was a bit of a basket case overdosing on zicam and vitamin C paranoid I might catch the office bug before the trip, by the time we arrived in Louisville, I was calm, confident and ready to race. The drive out through West Virginia was gorgeous and upon arrival I felt fitter than [...]
I generally waste zero time in transitions and typically place high in transitions. I leave my shoes on my bike. I used to dazzle my cul de sac neighbors (haha) practicing this skill before races. I also still clip into my pedals like its my first day in the sport and fumble a lot so [...]
I've started (ok continue to be) obsessing about shoes and want to talk about what I've learned as I've built my personal stable of run shoes. I now mostly run long and steady in a new pair of beautiful bright red pair of Saucony Ride 7s in Berry and I'm really happy with them. They [...]
The Training Peaks guys gave me a t-shirt at the 70.3 Worlds Expo this year because when they asked if I'd heard of "Training Peaks," I pulled out my phone and showed them my data in the mobile app with typical Kelly enthusiasm. Any opportunity to data obsess, right? I use the technology at my [...]
Here are some Ways to get Faster: A. Train, work really hard and increase your fitness! Build that engine. B. Train your brain and increase mental toughness to make use of A. C. Get lighter by losing weight so you have less to lug around. (This involves reducing chocolate intake which [...]
