It hurts – no way around it.  My feet especially hate distance and now my knees are starting to complain when I hit the double digit miles.  But you know what else it does?  It makes you feel young and amazing.  I just have to keep reminding myself that if it were easy, everyone would [...]

I don’t think I can make lemonade out of lemons quite they way Runner Susan can. She turned a 3 hour traffic jam, a full bladder and a missed race start into running an ultra marathon and getting a marathon medal but I digress.  My particular brand of lemons come in the form of non-running, [...]

Last  weekend when my friend Harold and I rode from Stinson Beach to Marshall and back we encountered a group of people riding with California Bicycling Adventures.   I looked at this one guy’s pannier bedecked bike and noticed he had a giant cog on his otherwise normal  12-28 rear cassette.  I asked him about it [...]

Every race is a learning experience and this one was no exception.  On Friday night we went to the pre-race talk with the Pros and heard Joanna Zeiger (among others) speak.  The MC talked about how she had had one bad race after another (mechanical failures, nutritional issues, physical problems) and her response to that [...]

Here’s what I did this weekend on Saturday: 3 Bears via Pig Farm + Inspiration Pt. When I told my inadvertant coach Monica about it I got this response: WHY did you ride 4 hours today?  WHY did you ride 57 miles!!!!  There is absolutely no need to ride anything over 2 hours!!!  You will [...]

I was tempted to skip HDM because I’m just not feeling the blog but I feel duty bound (as though you care) so here we go.  I call this Swim, Bike, Run, Why Bother? Swim – there is a woman at my pool who often gets into the lane next to me. She is very [...]

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 [...]