This week I had a bike fit. I've been eying race wheels and all sorts of gadgets...but more important is having a bike that fits like a glove and slices through the air while you can continue to produce watts! My bike position was really not very aero. I had totally outgrown it. I saw [...]
I became totally and completely obsessed with my Garmin watch in July of 2011. It tells me pace, speed, distance, heart rate, elevation change and all kinds of important numbers related to triathlon training and racing. It can provide constant feedback, alerts and information during a workout as well as even more data to review [...]
Nick drove me out there race morning and my super awesome coach called and left me a message making sure my head was in the right place and telling me to be aggressive and kill it! I had sent him a list of my goals, but he’s encouraging me to race more by feel than [...]
My foot is better! I'm grateful to my active release therapist, my husband, my former coach, my friends and my podiatrist for seeing me through that awful injury. I'm also grateful to everyone who was generally "there" for me while I got through the hardest winter of my life. I've reconnected with many of my [...]
I have been struggling with the dreaded Plantar Fasciitis monster since the first week in November. The frustrating part is that I did not get a PF relapse from over training. I haven't had PF since 2008, but again I have also been careful with my foot and never wore heels two days in a [...]
Beach to Battleship. It was beautiful! The weather was brutally windy and chilly and the logistics were complicated but the course was really fun and there were definitely tears at the finish line of this race. Sharing the day with me was my husband Nick and my teammates, Brenda and Casey who drove all the [...]
It rocked. 12 minutes faster than Lobsterman, but the bike course was short, so factoring that in, I will say that I had a 9 minute PR for the distance.My transitions were kind of slow and my run pace was slower than I think it should be again, but I finally got my Olympic distance [...]
Lobsterman was in September. It was the most efficiently organized and well run race I have ever done! I guess I shouldn't expect any less than that from Mainers! The course was gorgeous. I guess I took growing up around there for granted. Freeport is adorable.The race was a comedy of errors for me. Lots [...]
I am having such an awesome season!My comeback race was 3Sports Sprint: Just a local pool sprint, but I wound up with a huge PR and 1st place in my age group and 8th overall women and I was smiling and so incredibly happy the whole time. I had put an unbelievable amount of pressure [...]
I thought I lost her that day of the bike wreck. My beautiful Stella Cervelo took a brutal hit right along with me. While I cracked some bones and damaged my jaw, she fractured her top tube and mangled her aerobars. As luck would have it Cervelo was all out of 2011 frames in the [...]