Courtenay Brown

No I am not talking about foreign policy... This here is a race report! Today I raced the USAT Duathlon National Championships just outside of Tucson, AZ. It was a fantastic venue and a really fun race. Granted, races in which I achieve my goal(s) always tend to be “really fun” in race reports, but I really did enjoy it! My first multisport race was actually a duathlon, the “TBF Summer Duathlon #2” in August of 2007. It was “really fun” (I won), but I didn’t race my second duathlon until today. My arbitrary goal was to finish in the top-4 – I didn’t recognize many of the names on the start list and wasn’t sure how different everything would be ...

This week I have been sick. I went to student health today and the doctor said I have allergies and a resulting nasal polyp, don't google it, and on top of that a cold. It's not the greatest. But, I have medicine for both the short term and the long term and I'm hopeful that I can get back to training tomorrow. In the meantime, I made kombucha this week, as I tend to do every week. It saves a bit of money and I really enjoy the process, plus it's Boulder, of course I brew my own kombucha! Hillary asked for details, which I happily detail in great detail below... Back in the fall I got a SCOBY starter ...

One of the topics that came up at the First Endurance nutrition seminar I went to last month was stress. At the end of a week that saw me flee class twice in tears, cancel several meetings, cut a bike workout short, call my sister specifically so I could hang up on her... Stress, you say? I might be experiencing it. What do you have to say about stress, First Endurance, because I am LISTENING!! Optygen, First Endurance's flagship product, improves the body's ability to handle stress. Physical stress is what is typical for athletes, but emotional stress takes an arguably equivalent toll on the body ...