I cannot believe 2017 is here already – and that we are already one week in! Where did time go?! I feel like the past 18 months have been a blur. I don’t want this to be a laundry list of everything that has gone on in my personal life, so I will just leave it […]
On Saturday after swimming I sat chatting with my friend Juliette. We were talking about her amazing open water swim season, which has included crossing from Jersey to France, as well as an upcoming Gibraltar crossing. And we talked about my season. Or seeming lack of one. I haven’t blogged since March. A lot has […]
At the end of January I attended a workshop on goal setting, by Josephine Perry of Performance in Mind. It was a great talk for lots of reasons, not least of which that it helped me to frame my 2016 plans. It has been hard for me to think about 2016 knowing that I am […]
When my dad died in July I went to his house to help with the clear out. This was a big deal in many ways – not least of which because I was finally allowed to go into and go through his sacred place: his garage full of fishing supplies. Packed to the brim, his […]
Participation. That was the aim of my 2015 triathlon season. To participate in local races and to lend support to the growing paratriathlon movement through my participation in smaller grass roots events. Back in April I kicked off my season with the Egg Hunt in Florida. It was early in the season, but I managed […]
This post was originally published on Baseline Physiotherapy to raise awareness of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. May is EDS Awareness Month. To learn more about EDS Hypermobility type (the type of EDS I have been diagnosed with) please visit the Hypermobility Syndromes Association. Growing up I knew that I was double jointed. I used to think it […]
I can’t tell you how many times I have read stuff about “eliminating negative self talk” – but what does that MEAN. I mean, first of all, what is negative self talk? And second, can you get rid of it? Here’s my “a-ha” moment of the day. This morning I was at swimming. I swim once […]
Finally! Finally I am feeling myself coming back to my normal! On the last day of February I started to feel really really unwell. Last week I waited for the sickness to pass. This is a cold, I thought, so it will lift in a few days. But when I got to my seventh day of […]
Grab a beverage of your choice, and pull up a chair. It has been a while, and it is time for a quick catch up. Me? I’ll have a bottle of rootbeer. In fact, I had one on Saturday. Rootbeer has to be my number one guilty pleasure beverage. And to my horror I discovered that the diner […]
I’ve let it be known that what I would really like to do is to do a race in Japan. Specifically, ITU World Paratriathlon Yokohama. But what I haven’t put out there (much anyway) is how setting myself a big goal like this has seemed like setting myself up for failure. It is not the […]