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Month: July 2015

Peachtree Road Race 2015

Peachtree Road Race 2015

The back story My race reports always have a back story! This one for the Peachtree Road Race is more of a “why am I running this”? I wasn’t just feeling it in the days leading up to the race. I had just raced Chattanooga Olympic Triathlon last weekend in rather exhausting personal conditions and I felt like I had no breather after that. I had a terrible migraine for two days before the race. After racing last weekend, this…

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Open Water Swimming Tips – How to overcome your fear

Open Water Swimming Tips – How to overcome your fear

I started open water swimming two years ago and I have been swimming pretty consistently – open water swimming (OWS) in the summer months and year round in the pool, even before this Augusta 70.3 training cycle. Yet, EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I go to tan OWS, I get this feeling in my stomach …  I’m a horribly slow swimmer. I can’t breathe. I’m going to be tired before I reach any particular point. I’m not going to make it. There’s the Loch Ness monster….

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Racing a Triathlon. With a Period.

Racing a Triathlon. With a Period.

This is an incredibly hard post for me to write … mainly because it is embarrassing. But it influenced my race and I hope that someone might benefit from the tips I got and what I decided to do. WARNING to the men in my life who read this blog: It is a girly topic, so bail NOW if you want to!    Since that line gave it away – my BIG personal first that I mentioned in my Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon…

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