Last year (or the year before) I read about the idea of picking a word of the year that influences you from Amanda at Run to the Finish. With my focus this year being on Augusta 70.3 and trying to manage my nutrition, I think Amanda’s approach is a great start to this. My word for the year is DISCIPLINE The word came up a few months ago as I was lamenting on how I was struggling to eat right…
At the end of 2013, I summed it up as – A bit of everything (running, yoga, crossfit, triathlon), a bit of focus lost and regained (running goals defined), a new love gained (triathlon and crossfit) and an old love reclaimed (running!). And so finishing up 2013 and going into 2014, I had just one race in April that I was training for. I was trying to juggle that with CrossFit. Here’s me looking back at 2014 and a (not so short) recap of my…
I’m not a stranger to yoga. For the starting and winning point, I’m Indian and grew up with some form of yoga or the other. I used to regularly attend one class/week at the YMCA. And I have used p90x Stretch/Yoga while training. However, other than during pregnancy, I have not attended any at a yoga studio. I’ve been too intimidated! That is until a local yoga studio started a series called iAthlete – a Yoga class geared towards triathletes and…
Need I say more? I will be swimming 1.2 miles, biking 56 miles and then running 13.1 miles at Augusta, GA – all hopefully within 8.5 hours. Who else is registered/planning to register? Want to follow along as I train for this mammoth? Follow me on other social channels and this blog! Twitter: @fauxrunner Facebook: www.fauxrunner.com/fauxrunner Instagram: www.instagram.com/fauxrunner Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/fauxrunner/ Bloglovin: Follow FauxRunner with Bloglovin
I’m not a stranger to volunteering or cheering at events. I’ve spectated all distances of running (5k to marathon) and a couple of sprint triathlons along being a sherpa (taking care of) of Mr. FauxTriathlete . This past weekend however, was the mother of them all – The Ironman Chattanooga. The famed 144.6 mile event (instead of the usually 140.6 miles) of 2.4mile swim, 116 mile bike (4 extra miles) and 26.2 run in Chattanooga drew a lot of athletes from…
“A statement or slogan repeated frequently to aid concentration.” That would be my definition of running mantras. It is not enough to train your body to run through those miles, the mind also needs to be trained to lead the body. There a huge difference, for me atleast, in the way I deal with my body and mind. Unless I am in pain or I am running on low sleep reserves, my body does what I tell it to do. My mind,…
When I think back to my favorite race memories – some of my best race memories are not the races where I was “blazing fast”, but those that I remember because of the hard work and heartbreak that went in to training for it. Which is why even my 5k PR doesn’t make the list, because I didn’t specifically train for the 5k. It was enroute to training for a marathon and I just happened to PR. 1. The FIRST One – Georgia Half…