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Rain woke me up, and there have been sheets of water (at least by LA standards) for hours now. I think that my 1/8 mile run to the car this morning should count as a run *and* as a swim! And tonight no climbing… instead a CT scan for the side. Hopefully we'll figure out…
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So I made it back out on a run yesterday. I ran a few times after IMAZ and my knee was just getting sore too quickly, so I backed off and gave my body a whole week impact free (at least fairly so — I only swam and did karate and a bit of archery).…
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Swimming was great yesterday… I was just comfortable in the water, and in a lane with damn fast people and able to hold my own (enough). Yeah, I was the slowest, but yeah, I felt I was doing pretty good. Part of the set was 3 hundreds as fast as we could, then an easy…
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So my right side has been very not happy for a while. Sometimes it feels like a knife is being stabbed right up under my hip bone, but usually it is a duller ache. Or sometimes it just cramps up. But whatever it is doing, I'm tired of it. It has been about a month…
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I expected to be sore after the Ironman. I mean… duh! It’s an IRONMAN! But I really wasn’t. Yeah, a little stiff that evening, and it took a few steps of walking to be “ungimpafied” the next day or two, but never really that stiff, sore, oh god more stairs!?!? kind of feeling. However, I…
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Things I learned at IM AZ Goggles are worn for many reasons. One is for keeping water out of eyes. One is for helping block some of the glare of a rising sun as you swim into it. Another is to block against fingernails and hands entering your eyesockets. It’s crowded in the water with…
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This weekend brought the end of the PossAbilities Tri Series. I enjoyed the series as a whole and hope they do it again next year. This final sprint race was a 5k run, 8 mile bike, and 125 yard swim. I finally broke an hour on a sprint tri! As I got out of the…
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Good swim this morning. It was lots and lots of 100s (I think 21). I sat out a few, as my side has been a bit unhappy and I don’t want to push it right now. Might go for a ride this afternoon. Trying not to do too much, but also not too little. Tapering…
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So life is getting crazy busy right now. I’ve dropped some in the training hours (for bike especially, and some for running) which is ok since I should be tapering anyways. IM AZ is 11 days away! I’m nervous and excited. They have changed the bike course (it’s less hilly now) and so I’m more…
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til IM AZ. I get scared every time I look at the countdown clock or see that I’m scheduled for vacation 4/7-4/11…