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Oh Texas
Hello! TOMORROW IS RACE DAY. And guess what? It’s supposed to be real freaking cold. I love Texas, but it’s pretty bipolar. I trained in temps ranging from 80-100 degrees, but all it takes is one little cold snap for racing conditions to look like this: Thank goodness for wetsuits. And today I’m going to Continue reading
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FRIDAY!
Good morning and happy Friday! It’s the weekend! I don’t have much on the agenda which I am insanely pleased about. I was going to do a brick workout with Texas Triathlon this morning, but I woke up and ate breakfast and went back to sleep. My whole body felt droopy and I ended up sleeping Continue reading
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Endorphin High!
Yo wazzup! Remember that time I was freaking out about my running? 😉 Well, I mentioned that I should pay more attention to my mile splits and blah blah blah. Today I went on a run and did exactly the opposite. I didn’t track it whatsoever. I just listened to the music on my phone. Continue reading
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Running Woes
I’m getting confused. My running has been all over the place lately. During running class I can crank out 8:15 min/miles. I ran with my dad last weekend and I felt chatty , using little effort, and completely nonwinded during a 5K at 9:40 min/miles. And yet, when I go out to run by myself Continue reading
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Race Recap: Kerrville Quarter Tri
Hello hello good morning! I’m up an hour before my alarm because I went to bed really early last night haha! Want to hear all about my triathlon? Well good! Because I’m about to tell you alllll about it! I’ll skip all the boring stuff and we’ll go straight to 4:50 am on Sunday morning. Continue reading
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Breaking the rules…
Yo! I am mere minutes away from leaving for a two hour drive for my triathlon tomorrow! I don’t know if I’ll have time to write tonight, so I’ll fill you in now: This is NOT the half Ironman I’ve been training for. This is a quarter distance Ironman, so the distances are 1000m swim, Continue reading
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Jam Packed
Hey Happy Tuesday! The day’s barely started but I’ve been busy. My schedule has been like this: OChem Swim workout 20 minute break to eat apple and write this 😉 Genetics UGS (as the assistant) My office hours Nutrition lab And then I get to go home at 6:30, do homework, go to gym for Continue reading
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{Hey September}
Hey hey hey! Let’s catch up, shall we? 🙂 Sorry I’ve been MIA. I moved back to Austin, school started, and I’ve been working, training, and studying my bootay off already. Let’s start with training. Okay, so to be 100% honest, I was in a bit of a rut for a few weeks. It was Continue reading
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Recovery
Hey happy Friday! 🙂 The weekend is here! Well, maybe for you… Tomorrow I work from 8 to 4! I’m here to chat about my recovery week… Today is week 8 out of 20 of the training plan and it has been recovery week. Basically, this week has been full of lots of shorter and Continue reading
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But did you die?
Today I had a speed swim workout and 45 min easy ride. The swim was awesome! The bike… Well… I had a less than stellar bike ride that included: – sunglass chaffing – falling over while clipped in standing still at a stop sign – being unable to get up from said fall because of Continue reading