I’m having a pain.  Actually I’m having a couple. My first pain is that I really, really, really want to register for the New York City Triathlon but there are a bunch of reasons why that might not be my race this year so I just can’t.  Registration for USAT members is open now and [...]

We interrupt our regular feature, Hump Day Miscellany, to bring you news of a new movie that you need to purchase on DVD to see. The movie is called Volcanic Spirit and tells the story of one of the most grueling races in the world. It isn’t sexy and famous like Badwater or the Western [...]

For someone who raced her last race of the year last weekend I worked awfully hard this weekend. Saturday’s Ride: It wasn’t quite as hairy as that elevation chart makes it look but it was hard enough. I kept up with the group until we got to that little pointy thing right before the big [...]

A friend invited me out for coffee today so I said “sure!” and thought about how I needed to go to Target to get some fluorescent bulbs for the garage and how I needed to go to the grocery store to get a few things and how convenient it would be to do that after [...]

I’m posting this because the last woman shown in this video is my birthday sistah!  We’re a couple years apart (she is Humbly Anne’s best friend from high school) but not that far apart in many other ways.  I’m posting the video in her honor and because I think it makes a very important point.

1). The coaches video taped us at Masters yesterday. The video is great – there is nothing better to help you fix up your stroke. On the other hand – I have a lot of problems with my elbows dropping and then not bending in the proper way.   My coach gave me a really good [...]

This will be a race report mostly in pictures because we all know about the ratio of value between pictures and words. The plan was for 2 of my friends from Forward Motion to arrive at Chez Moi at 4:30 so that we could head into the city and park out near the finish and [...]

I am going to write a normal, Monday Monday – Race Report in a bit but first I just have to air a grievance.  The robo-call smear campaign that is coming out of the McCain camp is the most shameful political trick since Bush robo-called against McCain in 2000 saying he’d had a black child [...]

Tomorrow is race day and I’m ready although I’m really tired. I wanted to share with you what I got at the Expo. I had to go twice to do this. I got the stuff in the first picture on Thursday night when they had “Ladies Night” complete with wine and crackers and cheese. I [...]

I got an email in my regular email inbox a couple of weeks ago from Denise from LA who wanted to know if she could be a guest blogger on this blog.  I was taken by surprise because my regular email is in no way associated with my blog and yet… she found it.  Weird.  [...]