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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…
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Today is a break from impact stuff (ie running) and the drizzle makes it a good bike rest day as well. I got in a nice swim this morning. We started with 6 50s (odds free, evens non-free [2 backstroke, 1 butterfly for me]). Then we did 3 sets of fantansy swimming with fins —…
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Scarily enough, I am loving my swim workouts the most right now. I think it's all due to finding a great coach. His workouts are awesome — I feel like I'm improving constantly in the water with his help. There is also just something about watching the day start from inside a pool… and the…
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For Christmas I’d like 4 more hours each day… and a pony. Seriously, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. I’m lucky that my main job has flexible hours — I don’t know too many other places where a lunch break is long enough for a slowpoke like me to run…
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The second tri in the PossAbilities Tri Series was on the 13th. It was a great course for spectators — a transition area right by a 3 loop bike and an out and back run, not to mention a run to the pool and then a run from the pool to the end (it was…
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The Tour de Palm Springs this weekend was a nice 104 miles. Some pretty bad roads, but some nice ones. Some nice climbing (up about 1500' in the first 20 miles, and about 4000' of climbing overall). The finish line was hard to find, but that was the only issue I had with the course.…