It seems so surreal that on Monday I raced in Texas, and here I sit today, Thursday, in London. The past week has been a blur – travel, jetlag, emotions, pain. At one stage of the weekend I was on the phone to DH, going through some of what was in my head. “Why did […]
I spent the weekend in Texas and just got back to London this morning. It seems like London and Texas had the same weather over the weekend – hot and sunny. Perfect ice cream weather. After I finished the CapTexTri and headed to the airport I managed to squeeze in a visit to Amy’s ice […]
It is two sleeps until I leave for Austin Texas and the USA Paratriathlon Nationals. I gotta admit – I am nervous. And I have been trying to figure out why. I think it all comes back to the expectations I am lumping onto myself. I have wanted to do this race ever since I […]
The time has come for me to pull out all the stops to try to get my foot (and peroneal tendon) into race condition. The US Paratriathlon Nationals are in a week’s time, and my run volume has been low as I’ve been struggling to manage through tendon troubles. I have pretty much resigned myself […]
A lot of people have asked me questions about paratriathlon, how I got involved in it, and my upcoming race at the end of May at the USA Paratriathlon National Championships. So I thought I’d take the opportunity, about one week from the day I depart for Texas, to share some of my responses and […]
Things are getting real. The foot issues I’m having are still real (unfortunately). But my airport transport is all sorted – at least to get to Heathrow and home again, still gotta deal with the Austin side of things. My hotel bookings are all sorted out (thanks Hyatt for checking and re-checking in case I […]
On Sunday I went for a run along the Suffolk coast. It was a cold, grey, awful day. Was it really May? When I stepped out of the house I flipped my iPod over to the “purchased music” selection, and scrolled through. I put on the tunes my friend Kate had recommended to me. Kate […]
On Saturday I will be going to Cybher, the blogging conference held in London with the awesome tagline “Geek is the New Chic”. Anyway, I’m excited about going for a whole host of really geeked out reasons. Before I registered in March I often said that I wished that the UK had conferences for its […]
I headed out to the countryside over the weekend to take a break from London. To get some fresh air. To clear my head and to have some space to make some decisions. And to enjoy signs of spring – even though it hasn’t felt spring like that clearly has not stopped the flowers! I […]
Friday was a tough day. A *mentally* tough day. It started off at 7am, with a gruelling visit to Michael the sports therapist. Although I had already seen Michael on Monday, my foot just WAS NOT RIGHT. It ached. The dull pain was always there. It needed more attention. It was wearing on me. Because, […]