Category Archives: Events

SOMA Bound

After much deliberation, hemming and hawing and after overcoming some bizarre dread fear of shipping my bike – I am on my way to SOMA today! My bike is currently in Tempe and will soon arrive at Big J’s office … Continue reading Continue reading

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How To Have a Perfect Weekend with a Half Mary Tossed in for Good Measure

The Book Group is the Quilting Bee of the 21st Century. Although there are some book groups that are co-ed and some that are just guys, a vast preponderance of bookgroups are women who like to get together, drink some … Continue reading Continue reading

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Oh Happy Day!

I finally was able to see the results from my Saturday Triathlon and I’m very happy to say that there were 4 women in my division so my 2nd place win was for reals! Just as a side note – … Continue reading Continue reading

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Shamu, Is That You?

It wasn’t enough for me to get up at 5:00 AM on Saturday. I needed to do it again on Sunday, this time to go swim with the sharks in the SF Bay again. My friend Melia was in on … Continue reading Continue reading

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A Day of Firsts

Today I raced the Bethel Island Olympic Distance (sort of ) Triathlon. It was a day of firsts. If I did the standard race report it would read: Swim – too long and sort of hard – water had weird … Continue reading Continue reading

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I Won!

No – I didn’t win my triathlon – I didn’t even place. I didn’t even make my goal of going sub 2 hours but I did win something in the post race raffle which I’ll tell you about in a … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Most “A” of “A” Races

My next race is Sunday. It is my “A” race because this event was where it all started for me with triathlon. In 2000 I did this race on a Schwinn Varsity 10 speed that I had ridden 3 times. … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Most “A” of “A” Races

My next race is Sunday. It is my “A” race because this event was where it all started for me with triathlon. In 2000 I did this race on a Schwinn Varsity 10 speed that I had ridden 3 times. … Continue reading Continue reading

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I Owe It All To Chris Lieto

I raced the Folsom International Triathlon yesterday and had a pretty successful day. In fact I had a big PR and I owe it all to Chris Lieto who gave me some really valuable feedback for my bike ride. I … Continue reading Continue reading

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In The Dark

I had a dream last night that I needed to go somewhere but I didn’t have a car. I hopped on my old hybrid bike and started pedaling to this place but soon realized that it was pitch black, I … Continue reading Continue reading

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