Get 15% off from Base Performance Nutrition!
Use code "CBref15" at checkout
-
Search
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
-
Best Bike Shops
Worthwhile Reads
Oct
30
At What Price
Category: Evils of Ironman, achilles tendinitis, in my opinion, training, trials and tribs | 4 Comments
Well 2010 is officially here! From a training standpoint, that is. I resumed run and strength training at the beginning of the week - a bit sad, I'm running a total of 1.25 miles on the track each day and mixing in some drills as well. So far, my achilles is doing fine and I'm confident that I will stay healthy with proper training. I've found a new (to me) running program that I think will work well for me - here is a link to a description and basic plan for the Hanson's training plan, and here is the Hanson's site, where you can buy training packets, plans, and coaching. I'm excited to try ...
Oct
25
All the writing I've done on here over the past 3.5 years would be a lot more useful if I could just adopt a "daily epiphany" writing style. Something happens, I internalize and analyze and awesomize it, there is a moral, everyone on South Park is friends again and Kenny un-dies. But evidently I just can't be bothered. Which is why I have spent the past hour scouring my site for a blog post that could be tweaked into my dreaded "personal history of opportunities and disadvantages" application essay... no dice.
I did find a couple cool photos though!
...
Oct
24
Gossip
Category: Showbox at the Market, ma says... | 1 Comment
Word on the street (omg don't tell anyone, PROMISE) is that BEN and I went to a SHOW last night. Whoa. Can you even believe that?! WTF?!
The band was Gossip, the venue was Showbox, the opener that we caught the end of and wish we'd caught more of was MEN, new project of JD Samson (from Le Tigre). And the night was awesome, if you ask me. Ben saw Gossip back in July and lamented that last night's set list was nearly identical, which is a somewhat inexplicable shame considering that they have been together for 10 years and must have some sort ...
Oct
20
Oo oo, I do! Pick me!
I am going to write two endless, interesting pages about how my various opportunities and hardships in life have made me especially deserving of a graduate school education in a diverse community.
I'm also going to drum up all my positive energy, turn off my bullshit-detector, and un-offend myself at the suggestion that individuality breeds entitlement, etc. I could get on a high horse (oo fun! pony!) for this particular application essay but instead I'll just do what I do on this blog all the time: wax rhapsodic about my lifelong awesomeness, (but with my tongue fully dislodged from my ...
Oct
16
Where to find good music?
Category: KEXP, Running music | 6 Comments
Yesterday Rachel asked for help in revamping her running playlist. I'm super helpful, so I emailed her some songs.
As an extension of my helpfulness, I want to plug my main source for good music: KEXP! It's a Seattle radio station started by Paul Allen, the "other" Microsoft head honcho. I love the station despite the fact that I tried to volunteer there back in the Spring and it was kind of a boring disaster, and also despite the fact that their thrice-yearly on-air fund-drives are the most incessantly annoying things I have ever heard (they are a non-profit so they have to do fund drives). Yep, ...
Oct
12
Craving Chlorination and Illumination
Category: Bike Commuting, Lazer Helmets, Lazer N'Light Urbanize, training | 3 Comments
It's been about two weeks since I started my off-season. And about one week since I started to notice that my casual salt-stick all natural deodorant routine that's worked so well for the past two years suddenly became entirely, completely, keep-that-jacket-ON ineffective.
Latest triathletic lesson: regular chlorine baths (i.e. swimming) kill off all the stinky bacteria and after a while my body gets used to it, stops producing its own stinky-bacteria killers, and when I take a break from swimming I turn into those people from the commercial who don't raise their hands because they're not Sure. Ugh.
One week to go! Then I get to start my Winter training!
In other news, at work I am on the "bikes" email list, ...
Oct
8
Update on All Things Smart-like
Category: Chemistry, Grad School, Grad School Applications, North Seattle Community College | 1 Comment
I've made a lot of progress on my road to re-edumacation over the past couple of weeks. I got into Chemistry class at North Seattle, I was #5 on the wait list but thankfully the professor was super scary on the first day about how hard everything was going to be, so a lot of kids left and suddenly I had a seat! I need the class because I am applying to a few programs with an environmental science component - I have real-world science experience thanks to the Smithsonian Institution, but I bypassed the actual science coursework in college. I think this class will be a way better ...
Oct
7
Nineteen years ago today, my stepdad died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Longtime readers of this blog may remember this fact, I tend to mention it on at least an annual basis, on the anniversary and after any especially challenging or gratifying race. He died while he and I were running a 10k together.
It just doesn't get any easier. My heart aches more and more for my mom with each year that passes.
Oct
4
Lazer Helmets in 2010!
Category: Lazer Helium, Lazer Helmets, Lazer Tardiz TT Helmet | Leave a Comment
I am very excited to announce that my head will be protected by Lazer Helmets in 2010! I'll be sporting the new Lazer Tardiz TT helmet at races, and the Lazer Helium during road events and training. Be on the lookout in January for detailed product reviews of both helmets here on this blog.
And perhaps a kit re-design is in my future? I'm thinking Pink and Black!
Oct
2
Wow, yoga’s not that bad
Category: Yoga, Yoga for Triathletes | Leave a Comment
Somehow ever since becoming a "real" athlete (kind of like "real" college) I've stuck my nose up at yoga. It's annoying. It takes for forever and you don't get to go fast or do anything fun, you just sit there and you wear stretchy pants and act happy. It's stupid. And boring. And embarrassing... true story: I had a socially-awkward boyfriend one time who, in the middle of a dinner party, started doing warrior 1's because he wanted to stretch. Ugh, yoga, count me out.
So when Ben wasted a precious Netflix disc on Rodney Yee: Power Yoga I got really annoyed and called it stupid. I ...
