From the category archives:

Triathlon Training

9 x 50 = 8.5

June 25, 2011 Health and Beauty

I cannot recommend swimming lessons with flowaquatics.com highly enough.   Recently, I was swimming laps and the swim coach for the high schools in the area was working with the team.  He came over to the end of my lane to wait and ask me if I was “a triathlon swimmer!”  Yes, I was encouraged, even [...]

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8 Ways to Work Through Your Running Injury

February 4, 2011 Barefoot Episodes

After weeks of dedicated, careful training, I did something wrong and can’t run a step due to pain in my right calf.  Thus, even following a week of patient tending to the injury, I cried and withdrew from the 2011 Nampa Rec Center Indoor Triathlon.   Part of me wants to pretend the event never existed.  [...]

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Two Weeks From Today It Will Be Over

January 22, 2011 Barefoot Episodes

The end of it all is near.  Two weeks from today, I will be done with my first sprint triathlon, one way or another.  I have emailed them my projected time, which is currently close to 1 and 1/2 hours.  This I base hopefully on a complete trial I did a couple of months ago, [...]

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