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Week 2 Ironman Louisville Training: Challenges and Changes
My birthday week was one of my most successful training weeks yet! I made it to all of my workouts with exception of taking Wednesday night off. I was incredibly exhausted from training and found that...
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Week 3 Ironman Louisville Training: Hope is Not a Strategy
This week was a great week. I’m coming off a high of a pretty awesome training week. I really feel like things are coming together. It’s not easy but I’m seeing progress (despite setbacks here and...
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How To Recover From a Sprained Ankle
After a painful weekend, I think my ankle is well on the road to recovery. I’m finally able to walk without limping too much and I can finally ambulate crutch-free! (Plus, I was pretty sure that I was...
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Race Recap: 2013 Rock n Roll Portland Half Marathon
So I’ve had Rock n Roll Portland on my list for quite awhile now. I was really happy to knock this one off my list! This particular half marathon was very important to me since it was my first official...
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Week 17 + 18 Ironman Louisville Training: Surgery + Post-Op Recovery
This post will be relatively short since I spent week 17 in massive amounts of pain and eventually surgery. I spent week 18 recovering from my surgery, considering my racing/training options, hopped up...
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Week 2+3 HITS Palm Springs Training: A Twisted Ankle, and Then Some
Oh boy. I got one good training week in and then BAM — I was hit with another twist to the ankle on my morning run. I was down by half my training time this week (week #2), and I’ve reloaded it on week...
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Triathlon Is Not A Solitary Sport: Here’s 70.3 Miles of Dedications
On the cusp of my first half Ironman race, I thought I’d take the time to do something I’ve been thinking about since my first marathon…I wanted to dedicate each mile of my race to someone important to...
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Week 2+3 Seafair Sprint Tri Training: Stay Overzealous, Friends
Hi party people! Four weeks in to my new training regimen and I’m feeling good. Still squeezing workouts into random time pockets in my calendar but at least I feel like things are somewhat back to...
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2014 Charity Fundraising Announcement: Stand Up to Cancer
Hi folks! It’s that time of year again were I announce my fundraising efforts for the 2014 racing season. Since I have (haphazardly) already finished my first race of the season (with at least seven...
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2014: A Few Wins, A Few Losses
This year, my PTSD, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and suicidal ideation hit me stronger than ever before. It began creeping up in May and by the time July rolled around, I was nearly...
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