Raise your hand if you were glued to a computer yesterday watching the livestream of Ironman World Championships in Kona?  Seriously, raise your hand……..wait, I’m the only one with my hand up…….again……..Alright, I’ll wear it proud, I watched pretty much uninterrupted from when the Pro’s started filtering into T2……and I LOVED it.  Love being the key word there, as winner Pete Jacobs so clearly described in his speech.  It was a good one, with lots of different subplots along the way……but […]

It’s been 2 weeks, so here goes another off season status update on the RED-iculous….. and the slow move back into inspired training.  If you recall a few weeks back I was riding the high of watching a good group of athlete-friends get their “liberty bell” at the RNR Philly 1/2 marathon……a great motivator for me…..THE GOOD I took the bike out a couple of times for a few miles and (despite the burning legs/lungs) felt GREAT even though after […]

It’s sort of funny what the weeks following a race can do to you.  From hyper-focused and locked-in with every little part of daily life acting as part of a tightly scripted series of events……to a whole different animal, where it’s so easy to feel tired and lazy, where the day sort of “gets away” and often I’m left feeling like something is missing.  This is the time of my season when I start searching, just that little bit lost […]