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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 […]

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 […]

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 had many fears about doing the triathlon. For example, I was worried about leaving a trail of vomit behind me and perhaps finding myself on a Youtube clip. However, my bigger fear was about what would follow the event. I worried that once the triathlon was over, so was my exercise […]

This past weekend was a big deal to me. On previous Mother’s Days, (alright, there have only been 3 of them since my oldest is only 4), I’ve enjoyed sleeping in until roughly 10 am and having breakfast in bed. This year I was up before 6 am. By 10 am, I […]