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When I decided to really focus on getting into shape about a year ago, I had a hard time finding media support.  Perhaps that sounds weird.  Surely there are more fitness magazines and exercise blogs out there than one person could read in a lifetime.  That’s not the problem I had.  It seemed like people […]

Last Sunday, my triathlon training buddy and I carpooled to our sprint triathlon. Other than knowing that it involved a river swim, we were a little confused as to how this triathlon would work. Apparently they were using the same course for both our sprint triathlon and for an Olympic length triathlon. […]

Because my triathlon buddy and I are slightly insane, we thought it would be a great idea to see if we can squeeze in a triathlon in August. I have to admit that when I first started training for triathlons, I couldn’t understand why the triathletes in my spinning class would ask me […]

Last year I read a blog post about a woman who had taken up running. She did it as a way to lose weight and participated in numerous competitions. At the end of her first year doing it she wrote a post saying that she had only lost 30 lbs. Comments came […]

I am pleased to report that the hydration pack was a success.  Yes, my husband would probably say it was also successful in making me look like a dork, and yes, he’s probably right.  I think though he might be a little biased due to the fact that I filled the “bladder,” yeah it does […]

When you are the parent of twins you experience some benefits of having two the same age as well as some drawbacks. I won’t get into how traumatic my girls early arrival was and how having two infants was more stress than I could have ever imagined, so maybe another time. What I’ve noticed, though, […]

I live in the state with the highest number of drownings in the nation for children age 1 to 4 (according to a 2007 Nova Southeastern University pilot study of drowning prevention practices in Broward and Miami-Dade counties).
In fact, in 2004, enough children drowned in Florida to fill four preschool classrooms, despite local and state […]

Thursday was a particularly eventful day. It was eventful because it finally really hit me that I would be doing another triathlon in a little over a week and I still hadn’t bought the dreaded wetsuit. I checked the time and realized that I should have enough time to drive out to the […]

When I decided to do a triathlon, the sport I was most confident about was swimming. After all, I swam competitively from 4th grade through college. What was 400 yards in the water for a triathlon when my best event used to be a mile? Never mind that fact that I’m going […]

I’m writing this poolside at our gym, watching swimming classes. My kids aren’t in the water right now, but I’ll have the pleasure of watching their classes in a couple of weeks.
How do you teach children to swim when you don’t know whether they’ve ever been in water before? This was the problem Peter and […]