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This past week, my triathlon training buddy and I were discussing how exercise was just not as much fun and exciting as it was this time last year.  We think it’s because this time last year, exercise was new to us!  Alright, we had worked out before, but since having kids the intensity of our […]

One of the nice things about doing triathlons,  is that they have kept me motivated.  It’s sort of like how many people use their wedding as a inducement to get fit.  My triathlons are similar to me, except that instead of picturing myself in a glamorous dress if I visit the gym regularly,  I picture […]

I just competed in my last triathlon of the season for a total of four triathlons.  This triathlon included a category that was… well… umm… new to me.  It was a category called “newbie.”  The criteria for being a newbie was that you had to be in your first triathlon season.  Since this is true […]

When I competed in my first triathlon in May, I was so nervous that after finishing the swim, I put on my running shoes instead of my biking shoes. So what’s the big deal about that? I have clipless bike pedals meaning that my pedals are only about an inch wide on either […]

One more triathlon to go and then the season is over for me.  It definitely has been fun, and I look forward to doing them next year.  I’m not quite as excited to start the training all over again this fall, but then again I don’t get cool prizes or free cowbells to give to […]

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 […]

A lot of my fellow moms are fit, but the level of fitness amongst most of my mom friends can’t be compared to that of the fittest triathletes I have met. When some of them have told me that they had been pregnant, I have almost fallen over. Given a choice between believing […]

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 […]

Don’t you love the feeling?
You pour yourself into your child. You teach and touch and train and restrain. You wonder whether anything is working, whether what you are putting in will ever come out.
And then, one day, someone tells you. Unbeknown to you, your child that argues with everything you suggest is an encouraging member […]

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 […]