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31 July 2012

Why Pittsburgh Matters: Pittsburgh Triathlon Race Report

25 June 2012

The (Dis)Comfort Zone

18 June 2012

Pulling a Season out of the Ashes

04 June 2012

Agrajag (a.k.a., Return to the Status Quo)

25 May 2012

The "Off" Season and David Foster Wallace

07 May 2012

Dominated by Disaster: Ironman St. George

On Saturday, I started and failed to finish Ironman St. George. It wasn't because of the weather. Although the weather was bad. And it may be a while before I can laugh about the whole experience but hopefully someday I can. On the way home, my husband Jim and I did find some humor (but little solace) in the amount of bad luck that befell me before and during this race. He summed it up as follows: "at least you got it all out of the way in one race."

28 April 2012

Things are Proceeding... As Usual

I've been seriously neglecting this blog lately - mostly because I don't want to sound like a broken record every time I race.

It's the last week of my taper for Ironman St. George.

Two weeks ago, I went through the panic. I'm not ready. I didn't train enough. I didn't train HARD enough. I don't know if I did the right things in my training. I didn't do enough nutrition training. I didn't train for the hot weather. I didn't train for the cold water. I didn't eat well during training. I didn't get enough sleep...

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