Thankful Wednesday: I will survive

Thankful Wednesday: I will survive

Today, I am thankful* for Gloria Gaynor and my bike Dolly. Both have provided inspiration and a back drop for surviving my quest to be a triathlete. Enjoy!First I was afraidI was petrifiedKept thinking I could never ride without falling on my sideBut I spent so many...

read more
Rah rah.. ah ah ah

Rah rah.. ah ah ah

If you are a Gaga fan then you know the title of this blog post and are already humming "Bad Romance" (or if you are like me you are full on belting it in front of your 'puter). I must say, I love Gaga. I am a total Lady Gaga fan and I don't really care to discuss her...

read more
A dessert room and nerves

A dessert room and nerves

Happy Monday peeps! I had yet another uber busy weekend. I'm kind of nodding at my desk actually, which is why I decided to type up this here bloggy blog post. I hit up a 5K on Friday night and while it wasn't a PR, I did have a lot of fun. I hit a 23:15, which was...

read more

Because it’s Friday

Because it's Friday and I feel like posting something a little random and yet, so funny, I'd thought I would share this little gem: 5 Reasons Riding a Bike is the Most Humiliating Exercise And man, don't I know it. This is obviously why I am having so much trouble....

read more

Thankful Thursday

This morning I woke up dreading putting on those bike clips. I was lying in bed for a good twenty minutes deciding what I would do. I was very similar to Cameron on Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "This is uh... This is ridiculous, ok I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go,...

read more
Highs and Lows

Highs and Lows

There is nothing quite like the highs and lows of endurance sports to make one reflect on why we participate in these activities. Let's recap shall we? Saturday morning I woke up for a 5K that brought me a PR and a big trophy last year. I was nervous, as per usual,...

read more
Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton

It's not everyday you see a blog with the title Michael Bolton, is it? Well today I had no choice but to title my post that way. You see, a little bit ago I was having a conversation on facebook about the movie Office Space. I'm pretty sure I used these quotes from...

read more

Grandma’s Marathon 2026 Race Recap

It’s been 84 years since I’ve written on this website. Since more than five of you said on my social media that you would read a race recap, here we go. I will attempt brevity but I have SO much to say. Grab a beverage and settle in. PRE RACE Way back in January I saw...

2023: A Look Back

It's almost the new year, and I keep hearing people say how the year flew by. Well friends, this year did not fly by for me. I think I would have preferred that. For me, it was a year of rebuilding my fitness. It was a year of new challenges and learning to work with...

Top Ten Things That Have Helped My Mental Health During Injury

As some of you may know, I am an ambassador for Still I Run. Ironically enough, I got the news I was accepted to be an ambassador about a week before I hurt my back. The irony being that Still I Run is a cause that supports running to help with mental health, plus a...

Happy New Year!…and How to Work on Your Lower Back Pain

Happy New Year! I promised to write more, mostly to myself cause who the heck still reads this, and so here I am! I'm just shy of six weeks out from my initial back injury. I'm not sure if I call it an injury or lumbar disc disease? Either way it sucks. Here's what...

The Return of the Blog

I realize the last time I wrote an update here was February 2020. Yikes. I was all guns blazing heading into my bikini competition prep. But, we all know what happened the very next month. The C word: Covid. I tried so hard to stick with the training. Truly. I worked...

Subscribe

Enter your email address:

Archives