Today I am suffering from extreme bike envy. The Dresdner boys are out for a 5+ hour ride and I am not allowed to go. Coachie said no; I have two runs and a swim instead. It just doesn’t feel right not to spend all day Saturday on my bike. Today is a beautiful, sunny, blue-sky, ride-in-shorts-and-singlet [...]
28 May 09: The Week After Ironman…
We are five days post-race and I am back in Germany, feeling great. Some post-ironman weeks feel better than others; but even when I think I am feeling normal as early as four days post-race, I try not to get too excited, because I have learned that sometimes everything can come crashing down a few [...]
Ironman Lanzarote Race Report
On Saturday I recorded my 35th iron-distance finish, and in doing so, finally had my own experience of one of the most legendary ironman events: Lanzarote. It is often called the toughest ironman on the circuit; and with its long, mountainous climbs totaling more vertical feet than any other ironman bike course, Lanzarote’s is generally accepted to be the [...]
24 May 09: Loved it!
I just wanted to check in and thank everyone for their pre- and post-race messages. It really does push me along out there to know that people are cheering online and sending support from all corners of the globe. Thank you, thank you!!
There hasn’t been time yet to write up a full race report, so [...]
22 May 09: Let’s do this!
Well it is the night before gametime here in Lanzarote and I am ready to get the show on the mountainous, windy road! After a couple of easy days and a little pre-race carbo-loading, I feel like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man; but I know by now that this is a necessary evil in the [...]
20 May 09: Another Week, Another Country
I had exactly a week to get settled in Germany before it was time to go down to the basement to pull out the bike bag and luggage again. Destination: Lanzarote (in Spain’s Canary Islands), for iron-distance race #3 for 2009…For my non-triathlete friends, the ironman here is one of the most famous on the [...]
17 May 09: Every girl should have one . . .
The Germans love their machines. There are machines here for everything. When I stayed in Germany in December, I discovered an amazing vegetable-cutting machine that fit right on top of a big salad bowl and made perfect vegetable slices that then fell right into the bowl. The tiny kitchen also included a bread-cutting machine that [...]
15 May 09: Deutschland!
It has been a whirlwind week since I last wrote, but I am pleased to report that I am now very happily settled in a much calmer life in small-town Germany with few distractions and the perfect German host. I will be training this summer in Lemgo with my friend Maik Twelsiek, who ironically is also an [...]
7 May 09: Tucson Highlights
I have just completed a tw0-week whirlwind trip back home to Tucson; for the mathematicians out there, this means two weeks in the midst of seven months abroad. There has not been enough time for blogging in between trying to locate belongings in my own house, unpack from the last four months, re-pack for the next [...]
