It is the first Friday of SEPTEMBER. September! Can you believe how fast time has flown this year? At least it has for me. I had lunch yesterday with a friend and she pointed out to me (rather poetically) that as we age time concertinas. Like an accordian, time compresses and passes faster as we […]
I am launching a new regular posting series called “The Paratriathlete Diaries” – in the series I hope to take a regular look at the random things that happen in my life as an athlete with challenges. I hope to make this a weekly feature, but as with everything, it all depends on what life […]
So after one week of doing absolutely NOTHING (well, except for sleeping, eating, enjoying some wine, and sleeping some more) last week was a “re-entry” of sorts—back into a more “business as usual” life on both the work AND working out front. I headed to Tokyo for a swift business trip last week. 48 hours […]
Everyone has a food that triggers nostalgic memories. But I bet you not everyone has a trigger rooted in their high school cafeteria. At my school (Punahou) caramel cuts are the stuff of legend. Served for easily over sixty years, these treats have been the source of many torture messages and tags from my classmates […]
This is the first time post race I have felt – at least in my muscles – good. Not sore. Not like frankenstein. Just… Good. Going up stairs has been fine. I have had a bit of swelling in my left knee, which I expected given its condition, and that has made going downstairs a […]
Forgive me if this doesn’t read like a typical race report. I am not going to bore you with the details of how long my transitions are (In short: LONG). I’m not going to bore you to death with my pace per kilometre stats. Do you really want to read a blow by blow? No. […]
It has been a while since I posted some links to articles or things I’ve stumbled across that have gotten me thinking. Here’s a few that I came across in the last weeks that have given me pause for thought. 1. Victoria Arlen loses paraswimming classification As I have written about before, classification in parasport […]
I am racing on Sunday. I can’t quite seem to wrap my head around that fact. It will be a triathlon unlike any I have ever done – a swim in the North Sea, a cycle on open roads (sharing traffic with big lorries – yikes!), and a 10k run off the bike – the […]
Over a decade ago, I had motivational profiling done at work. My boss at the time wanted to understand team dynamics better, to help her to better manage us and optimise some big projects we were about to launch. There were three types of motivation a person could have – achievement, affiliation, or power. It […]
I am SO READY for the offseason to be here. If it wasn’t for my pesky mechanical DNF at London a few weeks ago, I would already be swanning around and enjoying the “no race is on the horizon” feeling. Instead I am daydreaming about what comes next, while putting in the work to get […]