Ironmother Week: The Spirit
Made by yet another creative mother runner: Denise, my pal from Boulder, who is just a love. (Thank you, DD! xo) So my body is on board, my mind is prepping to live in the moment, my coach [...]
Made by yet another creative mother runner: Denise, my pal from Boulder, who is just a love. (Thank you, DD! xo) So my body is on board, my mind is prepping to live in the moment, my coach [...]
Sorry for the f-bomb, but I had to lead with this one. Sense of humor is key to Ironmother success. So my body is idling, ready to shift into gear on Sunday. My glutes, the biggest muscle in [...]
More or less, total miles in the pool since I started training. I forgot my Garmin 910XT pretty regularly at swim practices—at least once every two weeks. The most notable time I forgot it was in the thick of [...]
Pre-race meal: Chipotle carbs and a few more carbs. Notice how my pal Bine is holding down her sour cream and cheese cups. It was that windy. Before I start this (long) race report, I just want to [...]
If I didn't already have a middle name, I think Dimity Challenge McDowell has a nice ring to it, don't you? So remember that post about my slipping and falling in Salt Lake City, and not breaking my [...]
And thar she blows: a great goal for me. So this Ironman thing? Tough. There isn’t a workout where somewhere in the middle of it, I go into math mode: I’m 45 minutes into a bike workout, [...]
Bring it! Or something like that. I have a rule: I don't do triathlons in Boulder. Boulder is full of athletes who intimidate me; they have 4% body fat and always seem to have a game-face and clock [...]
A) Make yourself feel nauseous for over a week after you hit "submit" button. B) Wonder if you're just a 40-year-old working mother of two disguised as a crazy lady with an endurance obsession. (Or maybe the two aren't all [...]
I'd happily pony up any co-pay for a bike doc at the right time. I've been riding ____________ (still unnamed bike) quite a bit these days, and--knock on wood--have not had a flat tire yet. But I know [...]
Have wheels, will travel. Far and fast. So I recently got a bike that, quite frankly, I'm not worthy of. Yet. But I plan to be within a month or so. It's a Trek Speed Concept 7.8, and [...]