Wow

You know when things just click? your stride is loose, running feels easy, you’re breathing deeply, it’s a gorgeous morning? Running is NEVER easy for me. This morning, those two running intervals on the Strand were beautiful. Mel, bless her heart,...

My training partner is in Fiji!

This is the true test …. will I get all my runs in this week without having to meet someone at 6:00 a.m.??? I went for a longer run/walk yesterday a.m. (about 90 min) all by my lonesome THEN did a 45 minute drill/swim session in the pool (slow, practicing my TI...

Hemet Tinseltown Tri

I won an entry! It’s not that my haiku was any good, it was a random drawing, but still! So my season is not yet over. Hemet Tinseltown backwards tri on December 11th! I’ll have a Solvang Prelude report in the next day or so. Suffice to say it was freezing...

Total Immersion Workshop

The workshop was a 2-day primarily pool session workshop (4 hours pooltime each day), with a couple hours for questions and critquing of our videos. 13 students, 2 instructors. One student was repeating the course (he’d taken it about 2 years ago). We started at...

Virtue

I’ve been doing better on my run/walks — my ankle is basically healed (though I can feel twinges when kicking while swimming) — 12:39 pace including walk breaks (2:30 run, 2:00 walk). I know that ratio seems low on the run side, I’ll be...

Long Beach Bike Tour

Wow. The bike tour was an absolute blast. 26.2 miles in about 1:40ish. Basically flat course, varied scenery (darkness to beach to pretty houses to boonies to houses and beach), couple other LA Tri Clubbers, home by I think 9:30ish at the latest (‘course we got...