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Oh, yea, I haven’t posted in a bit. With my stomach issues and moving life has been crazy. Yea, we moved! Bought a house. The awesome tax lady said buy a house or have a kid…this seemed like less of a commitment! So, today in-between working and stuff I’m waiting for deliveries. Jon’s parents spent the week before the 4th with us and helped us move. This week my parents are here helping unpack! I absolutely LOVE having all the help but I will be glad to start to figure out a

That image says it all for me. Goals pointing all over the place. 6 years ago I was reading a magazine and saw an ad for the Disney Princess Half Marathon. I was jazzed. I had a huge goal, a training plan, and people to push me! Fast-forward and I’ve realized that I have no real goal right now. I’m trying to figure out what’s next. Usually, the next step is to get faster. I’d love to be a faster runner and I’m trying but to be honest, its freaking hard! It is also very solo.

ok, so this past week Beachbody announced a partnership with IRONMAN. Now, I know the product is a decent product. I think the Beachbody workouts are solid workouts. I have the 21 day fix, P90X and Insanity and think they are awesome. I’m sure these are good products. However, I’ve seen many friends who are coaches or use the products posting this with a statement in the vein of “now I know these are solid products because of this partnership”. Adding a IRONMAN logo or an MDo

Yep, tomorrow is my last day on the job! However, I got the sendoff from whatever higher power because my triathaidol come to visit for the first time ever!! Yes, I say triathaidol and Jon asked me if that was like Pitch Perfect – you know the whole acawesome thing! Yes, yes it was!! Yes, Rinny and TO came to the office last Friday. And because I am an ambitious freak I volunteered to help them with the live Facebook stuff! I am proud to say I didn’t freak out in front of the

Last night I had a phenomenal conversation with 2 ladies from TriEqual! Yes, I’m offering up my services to this inspiring group! No, I’m not a bitter ex-employee looking to throw a big middle finger! Ok, I mean I’d love to have had a Jerry McGuire kinda moment and take the fish and storm out but none of that happened and that’s cool (I still support the brand). I’m donating my time because I believe in what they are doing and I really hope I can help them make a difference i

So, on Thursday afternoon I quit my dream job. Why did I quit my job you may ask? There are a lot of reasons, including my thoughts on Women for Tri. However, since I have to endure 2 more weeks at the office that is a blog post for a later date. So, why did I quit my dream job? Because I love the sport of triathlon! That’s weird isn’t it? I had a job that was completely triathlon 24/7. Except that it wasn’t. There are 2 problems with it. When you do something for 9 hours a d

I don’t know if it is the pending holidays or the marathon training that has me thinking about goals and decisions for 2016. My beginning of the year goals have been pretty similar the last few years. Lose weight, run faster, organize my crap, etc etc. So far, I’ve been pretty unsuccessful at these goals year after year. Thanks to all these marathon long runs I’ve had the opportunity to really think about things. Why have I been doing things, signing up for races, buying new

So I’ve been getting a number of new followers lately and I am part of a blog hop this week and I figure now is a good a time as any to say, HI! 6 years ago, when I was 24, I decided I needed something to challenge me. I wanted to do something I had never done before. While flipping through a magazine I found an ad for the Walt Disney Princess half marathon. Somehow, I convinced my friend to do it with me and I had a goal! At that time the race was in March so this was a perf

OK so anytime someone tells you that you can do a sprint triathlon on endurance….RUN! So back in June I signed up for Lycra and Lace. It is an all women’s triathlon in St. Petersburg at Ft. De Soto park. I figured it would be my tri for the year and it would be easy enough to fit in the bike and swim in addition to my marathon training. This race kinda hurt. So it is a sprint triathlon. Supposed to be a 1/4 mile swim, 10 mile bike, and 3.2 mile run. Instead this sprint triath

I have been a little absent this week. Things have been a little crazy at work. It has been a nice recovery week for me since I have a sprint triathlon this Sunday. So while Jon tackles IRONMAN MARYLAND today, I’ll enjoy my sprint tomorrow. This is my first triathlon this year, with the move we kinda missed tri season. However, I can honestly say I have not trained for this race AT ALL. My first time in the water since the beginning of July was last Saturday. I’m looking forw

IRONMAN Maryland was on October 3rd, 2015. Then disaster struck and flooded out the course. Now, for the first time in IRONMAN history they have RESCHEDULED a race. What this means is I’ve had a few months of dealing with a husband training for his big IRONMAN race and then a giant pause. Now we’ve had another 2 weeks of tapering. Thankfully, the race is this weekend. I feel bad because we can’t afford for me to go up again so he is on his own. We have some amazing friends wh

So tomorrow is the IRONMAN Kona world championships. My office has been SOOO quiet because most everyone is on the big island! So in honor of Kona tomorrow I decided to talk about the 5 triathletes who inspire me! These are the people I actively watch and look-up too! They are approachable. I want to race with them and isn’t that the great part about the sport of triathlon? The fact that you get to race side-by-side with these professional athletes? What other sport can you d

Is there really an off-season? In February of 2015 we made the big move to Florida. We got here just in time for all the races to be finished and there were really only 5K’s left. It was weird to know that we had missed Florida racing season and now we were going to miss the Maryland racing season cause we were not up there. Essentially, my running and triathlon season were shot! Fast forward to October. This is when things really get bumping here in Florida. All of a sudden

So – I love technology! I set this to post last Friday while I was away and sadly it did not post! So my Friday Five is now a Tuesday Travel! Enjoy!! I have been traveling a CRAZY amount over the last few weeks. Anyone who says “I wish I could travel more for work” has probably never done it. With that in mind joining this Friday Five with You signed up for what, Eat Pray Run DC, and Mar on the Run was a “pick your own topic” week! I loved this one cause I had the perfect top

Hey! Do you remember that time you signed up for a race? Do you remember that time you trained for 3 – 8 months preparing for your A race? Do you remember how you did all the prep, planning, and training and then on race day something went wrong and it just wasn’t your best? WELLLL, it happens to the race directors also! We plan for a year to make sure your A race is amazing. Sadly, sometimes we make mistakes and when these mistakes happen we just pray you don’t flip out! We

Every Friday some blogs I follow do a Friday Five link up. This week I liked the topic so I decided to join in! If you haven’t you should check out You signed up for what, Eat Pray Run DC, and Mar on the Run. I actually got the chance to meet Cynthia in person this summer and she is pretty awesome! So any who, onto my Five things. FIVE THINGS I DID THIS SUMMER 1. Team Sports 2.Running in the Heat I learned how to run in the Florida heat. I also learned how to run in the Flori

When we last left our intrepid hero she was setting off to become a jet-setter. Becoming an avid flyer was something she had never been and never thought she would be! Na, in all honesty, the hard part now is that I think I should be scared of things but I’m not. My system is a little confused about this whole flying thing. To be totally honest though, I’m all kinds of tired. I have been in 7 different states in the last 3 weeks, FL, MD, WV, PA, IL, WI,NY. This Thursday I lea

So at the beginning of this year the husband took a new job in Florida. That meant that I needed to find a job down here as well. I lucked into a pretty good job with IRONMAN. This is my first For-profit job and I have to say For-profit is a very different world from Non-Profit. However, this meant really up-ing my game. So now I am proud to say that I am a Race Director and Ops Manager for Iron Girl. It is weird going from small 200 people races to all of a sudden managing a

It is finally here. Monday begins my half-iron training. Nothing like starting your Christmas holiday off with a major training plan. I’m even going to have to change it my first week cause I doubt highly that my YMCA or my government operated pool will be open on Thursday for my swim that day. Ah well. The cover reminds me of an 80’s textbook but I promise it was written in 2014 Right after I registered for 70.3 Florida I went out and bought IronFit Secrets and it has been m

So yesterday was my first attempt at an Olympic Distance Triathlon. I had been super nervous all week since we go the athlete guide. There was a strict bike cutoff and the weather was calling for cold and rainy. It would also be my first race in a wetsuit. On Friday I picked up my race packet. I learned that the bike cutoff wasn’t as strict as they made it seem. Apparently it was put in place to “discourage people who weren’t actually going to try to race” this was from the r