After having a nice recovery week, this week was time to get back on the horse…so to speak. We’re getting to the point in the training volume where it is necessary to do 2-a-day workouts, because it’s just not feasible to do 3+ hour workouts after work. This would leave me finishing my workouts at 10pm. […]
I was feeling fragile after my recovery week. The return to normalcy thing took way longer than usual. I was tired all the time but not sleeping, cranky, and muscles were feeling train wrecked. Friday came and I snapped back big time. I was ready t…
Tough training week coming up; very hot, very humid. The cattle are in the ponds cooling off. The stray cat is panting in the heat. The pool water at the health club was just a little over 90 the other day…yes, these are the “dog days.” Heat can be m…
19 days to go for the real thing!
A friend asked me to send him a write up of my thoughts on the IMC bike course and as i was going about it I really started to get into it. Here’s my $.02 on my favorite full course i’ve yet to do.Also a reminder to come by Bike Barn and join us for th…
To kickstart 5 days off I took Brett’s parents to the Abbotsford Airshow last Sunday…it was an absolute scorcher. Being an airfield, any form of shade became prime real estate….we wandered in the heat for an hour or so looking at the static display…
This is my transition week. Training has been cut back some this week before I launch onto three weeks of harder training. Amazing how tired I was. It was as if I had artificially suspended myself against fatigue. Now it is payback and the body has …
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Even though my workouts were not that long, I somehow managed to find myself with little time to prepare for dinner. This was a last minute idea due to time restrictions and it worked out well.
I seem to recall cooking something similar in the past but after doing a quick search, I was unable to find it so it was either long enough that I am allowed a repeat or it didn’t happen.
Bikes and Wine. How can you go wrong? Celebrating a productive and successful week with the husband and a bottle of this:Yum! Happy Friday 
I’ve done too much.I sort of knew it when I was getting into it, and I wish I could say this was the first time I’ve done it, but it’s not. It’s most definitely not.I got in over my head. Doing this 70.3 six months after having my second baby, and bo…
So I was asked to fill in as a sub for the kickboxing instructor at our dojo, and now it seems she is leaving for good and I’m the permanent kickboxing teacher! I love how I keep falling into these kinds of things. I guess the universe is trying to tel…
Despite being a simple dish that was really easy to make, this was absolutely delicious and I couldn’t get enough of it.
I had a three hour workout in the afternoon and with the temperature near 90 degrees, I welcomed the saltiness of the olives but the Italian in me LOVED all of the garlic! NOM NOM! The flavors blend well together and I will definitely make this again soon!
It’s funny how lights, traffic, etc. can even influence how you perceive your commute when your commute is by bicycle.If you look at the statistics from the ride below, you will see that my overall time was 46 minutes, which had me thinking that I crus…
What have I learned? I have learned that I like cycling a lot. In fact, when Ironman Canada is over, I plan to reduce my time in triathlon significantly, if not altogether, and focus on cycling and possibly running as well, but cycling for sure. …
Here are some pics that my friend Crystal took after our run on the Wapiti Trails today. I stole them from her blog since I never remember to carry my camera nevermind take a pic. It was hot and windy but the company was good. H-dog was happy to be bac…
Earlier in the year, I struggled with having enough energy to train properly. In particular, I found that I would head out for a ride and I felt like I was already bonked. In an attempt to correct the situation, I would eat a bar as I walked out the door. While this masked the problem, it was really nothing more than a Band-Aid for a bigger issue.
It all started with my attempt to further clean up my diet. Since I’m not a calorie counter, I only have a general idea of how many calories I’m consuming on a daily basis. What I failed to realize is that in its latest edition, Diet 2.0, I was running a midday calorie deficit. It was hardly noticeable due to “make up” eating at dinner but during the day, I was short on fuel.
What if I am training my ass off for this half-Ironman and hoping for a PR but I’m actually slower than last year? What if I’ll never have a PR again? What if I’ve reached that age where all I have to look forward to is getting slower and slower? What …
About a month or 2 ago I ran across a question on Facebook asking what is the best Training Log. I’ve since been asked this question several more times recently. Real good question, but this is also like asking what is the best car for you to drive. The answer is….Well, it depends. And it doesn’t […]
Yes my blog has grown cobwebs and I am ready to dust them off. My hubby did a great write up of his crewing experience for the Canadian Death Race, and I have yet to post my own. But I will.In the mean time, I feel fully recovered from the race and hav…
As of lately my tail end and I have not been getting along. One legged plate weight stability squats and weighted lunges are tearing my a** muscles a new one. Just tryin’ to build more (eh….ok maybe just some) junk in the trunk. Buns of steel baby.I …
I read a lot of running books. More than would probably be considered healthy. The latest was the newest from Matt Fitzgerald, entitled Run: A Mind-Body Approach to Running by Feel. I won’t get into a full review, but I wanted to touch on one of the topics discussed in the book, that of confidence-building workouts.It’s an idea similar to Hudson’s race rehearsal workouts, which are the last
Luray International***DISTANCE***Swim: 1500 metersBike: 41KRun: 10K***RESULTS***ResultsOverall: 2:41:04, 3rd female overall (listed as 4th but 2nd place DQed for only doing 1 loop of the bike course…OOPS), 1st in age groupSwim: 24:09T1: 1:26 Bike: 1:…
Six full days off the bike is now over. Was not that bad really, stayed busy with bike race promotion related stuff, glued on the CX tires, organized all my cross stuff for the upcoming season…… that sort of thing.What does six days off the bike do to the numbers?Red line is fatigue: Way up before rest as I went on some long rides three days in a row right before the break. Took it up to
I went back to the store looking for butternut squash and they are out. One day I will get to cook what I have in my mind but for now, I’m creating some pretty decent backup recipes.
I was glancing through a cooking magazine and saw a recipe for stuffed chicken which included a few items that I didn’t have or didn’t want to cook with so I decided to come up with something on my own…. this…
Some of the zoo pictures from the previous post didn’t make it, so here’s some bonus zoo photos: Intense looking lizard Slithering snake Otter doing barrel rolls underwater Monkeys cuddling There was a bug exhibit, too.&#…
We saved our trip to the famous SD zoo for Monday, our last full day, for a variety of reasons. It was a must-do item on our list and a stop Susan seemed the most excited about, so it would be a good finale. Also, we had hoped that because …