Jun

29

The Long and the Long of it

Category: anthropological research, trials and tribs | 6 Comments

Wow. This has been an incredibly eventful few days. Which, I knew it would be... Pacific Crest went great. I finished 3rd!! I'll post a proper race report separately, when there are photos and you can all check out my most awesome Splish suit yet. Seriously, I didn't want to take it off, even though it was kind of wet and smelly by the end of the race. Then I hung out with some bike racing friends. It was super cool that USA Cycling National Championships were the same weekend and the same place as Pacific Crest, I hope they continue that trend. I had a blast watching the racing and trading stories. But race weekend had to come ...
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Jun

24

Are those Triathlete Pants?

Category: anthropological research, family, quotables | 5 Comments

I wore my Skins on the plane yesterday and a woman asked me that. I wanted to say, "if by 'triathlete' you mean some expensive doohickey that is fairly ineffectual and obnoxiously athletic-looking, then yes, these are triathlete pants!" But I just told her they are my compression tights, and yes, I am a triathlete, how did she guess. Honestly though, I'm not sure they are very effectual. I think I need some regular medical compression tights. The Skins don't have feet on them, even though I pull them over my heels and ankles, I still get really fat toes and feet at the end of a travel day. So anyway, yesterday I left the east coast and now I am ...
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Jun

20

Your Finish Place was: *****

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Yesterday I raced the Tri-Forces Triathlon, which is really close to my mom's house. It was a nice little local race, and everyone was really nice, but it was kind of evident that it was a first year race! There weren't buoys for the swim, we sighted off a hotel that was kinda near this kayaker that we were supposed to swim around. The swim was in the bay, which was neat, mud on the toes and we found some horseshoe crab shells! I liked the bike course a lot, probably because from mile 2 onward I was winning the women's race :D . Then I headed out on the run in downtown Chesapeake Beach, which was so ...
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Jun

14

What’s coming up next?

Category: ma says..., making plans | 2 Comments

I have been in Maryland for four weeks now, and the time has been packed with family, socializing (my mom has soooo many friends), horses, and discussing the weather. And I've been doing some training, not as much as I did in Hawaii and San Diego, but enough not to feel like a total couch potato (plus it's too hot to sit on the couch here anyway). Hercules knows how to fuel properlyMy nutrition has been on the not-good side recently. I think it's due to stress, lack of sleep, and the weather, which I promise to ...
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Jun

12

Just another Saturday on the Farm

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I got up super ungodly early this morning (6 a.m., yikes) so that I could get my training done and spend the rest of the day doing fun stuff with my little sister and Helen. Since my mom is in Philadelphia for the day, "fun stuff" could be really really fun! Such as: -turning on BOTH overhead lights in the kitchen -standing in front of the fridge with the fridge door open -sitting still -shopping -eating donuts! Proof that Sal does it too!!! I got home from training, we sat in the kitchen working on the crossword ("maxernst" and "iceax" were my contributions, ...
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Jun

11

Choosing Classes

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I'm going to register for classes in a few days. I start grad school in 10 weeks! One of my required classes is Teaching Political Science, to help me be an awesome TA, which probably means I won't get to write "what on earth were you thinking/drinking when you wrote this!" on some undergrad's paper, but I'm sure there will still be room for my witticism(s). That's all. Today was a long day at the end-ish of a long week.

Jun

7

It Got Hot

Category: family, four-leggeds, trials and tribs | 4 Comments

Well my post from Wednesday sure was full of some wishful thinking. I still feel happy about being "balanced"... but... for the first time in my athletic career, I bagged no less than FOUR WORKOUTS in one week, and I didn't even have swine flu to use as an excuse. Nope, just being dead tired and h-o-t. It was so hot - low to mid 90's all last week through the weekend, with lots of east coast humidity and a new and starving population of bugs. I sadly realized that, just because I have survived hotter temperatures here, that didn't make the heat this time around any more bearable. Especially since, when it was a hundred degrees ...
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Jun

2

Impacts of Double-Ended Candle Burning on Zone3 Max and Other Indices

Category: family, training, trials and tribs | 2 Comments

(I am practicing for when grad school starts in a few months, and my writing will have to take on a more learned tone). Well the family reunion has been and gone. It was really fun. I'm exhausted, which is confusing, because I think I washed maybe one dish the whole weekend! But staying up late, getting up early, and playing tag (which, man, that gets kind of boring after about 5 minutes, but when one is proving to one's siblings and cousins that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, one has to play tag with little kids), all are exhausting I guess! ...
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