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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May

27

Resting up for the big Family Reunion this weekend!

Category: anthropological research, family, four-leggeds, training | 1 Comment

So I have been home in Maryland for a week and a half and today I needed a REST DAY! Which basically just meant I postponed today's swim to Saturday, and didn't tromp all around the property/Anne Arundel County doing stuff with my mom. Although this morning, when the plumber came to replace the metal thingy under the sink that broke when my brother (the one from Hawaii) took the sink apart to retrieve the earring I dropped down it, I *did* stand up from my comics and coffee in order to look like I'd been being helpful :D . It wasn't a total rest day though - one thing I found in the wake of my back ...
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May

24

But I have Pony-tails!

Category: Maryland Half Marathon, PowerBar, PowerGel, family, four-leggeds | 2 Comments

This weekend I met the new neighbors, precocious twin 5-year-olds and their nice dad. The little boy thinks I am a boy, and the little girl thinks I am great because I ride horses. Win-win! Also, my daily "strength workout" has doubled from riding one horse, CeCe, to riding two! My mom wants me to ride her dear sweet precious baby. Ugh. Fox and I have a long history of each thinking the other has an attitude problem. Whatever, he is just a horse, but a big obnoxious one who on Friday managed to run over me and cavort (loose) through the strawberry patch and break my Garmin FR60. Lesson learned, I save the adventuring for CeCe and I make sure ...
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May

16

Meet my horse!

Category: cool stuff, four-leggeds | 4 Comments

Today I arrived in Maryland, where I'll be until July. Today I also rode my new horse! This is CeCe. She's a thoroughbred off the track, and the goal is to retrain her for a post-racing career. She's very athletic, sensitive, and smart, and I'm super excited about the project. First ride on CeCe I rode her at the trainer's farm where she's been for the past few weeks, after the ride we brought her home to my mom's house. She and her new next-door neighbor, Spooky (WATCH the video, srsly), eventually made friends. Spooky is the sweet friendly ...
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May

14

What an awesome week!

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

This week has been great. Granted, I spent a ton of time in the car (I just can't seem to stop driving! And you know it's bad when 75 miles feels like nothing...), but I've gotten a lot accomplished and I just have to tell you all about it. Thing 1, I drove Ben up to Boulder for his bike fit on Monday. Then we went for a run at the Boulder Reservoir, which, I WISH I'd had my camera, we were running into like 50 mph winds, it was crazy and oddly awesome. Even though the run was mostly flat, I felt like I'd done a serious strength or hill-repeat workout! Also I kept saying "wow, it's so ...
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Apr

26

I don’t get sick during taper week…

Category: four-leggeds, trials and tribs | 6 Comments

...instead I get giant KNIVES in my back. Argh. For the fourth time in my brief triathlon career, I'm heading into a big race with stabbing pains under my shoulder blades. Last time this happened, I thought it might be mental, a psychosomatic outcome of stress and race fears. But I couldn't be more excited and positive about Wildflower, I barely feel stressed, so it's got to be something else, right? I think what maybe happens is that I work my body pretty hard during regular training, so that makes me susceptible to tweaks and whatnot. Then taper time comes and I am super vigilant about lazing around and doing nothing, which often results in Netflix marathons (who else loves ...
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Apr

25

I make a meal for my friends try to make it delicious, try to keep it nutritious…

Category: family, four-leggeds, training | 1 Comment

My mom is now totally famous, after being the lead story on my blog for nearly a week. Anyway, tons has happened since I last published something on here. Thing one, my aunt Betsy and uncle Tony and I lost our taste buds to a bad batch of pine nuts, and it's totally Trader Joe's and China's fault. Ugh, talk about unpleasant - I've been going through a period of nutritional apathy lately and getting a bitter taste in my mouth every time I ate something was just making it worse! So last night I got on google, remembered the gross pine nuts we all ate on Tuesday, and stopped blaming it on Tony for feeding us possibly ...
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Feb

12

Swick!

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"Swick" is a word I made up by myself. It means "sweet" and "sick" at the same time ("sick" as in "cool", not "sick" as in "ew" or "can I stay home today"). It started as a joke but now I can't stop saying it. Appropriate use of "swick": You: "Hey Courtenay, I found this photo of you where you won a prize for a project your mom made for you in 4th grade." Me: "Swick!" My "big head" in Manila (Maybe for next Halloween I'll update the bull to Bizco!) ...
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Nov

15

I had an awesome weekend!

Category: cool stuff, four-leggeds, training | 2 Comments

Well, I don't have *official* word yet as to whether this week's scariness was H1N1 (understandably, the hospital has more important things to do than call me back with my lab result!) but I'm pretty sure that's what it was. And I am feeling way better, no more fainting, thank god. Thank you for all the well-wishes! Tomorrow I am going to re-attempt commencement of my winter training for the THIRD TIME this fall! I have had enough of getting random sicknesses that the whole country is also getting. Strep throat, swine flu, it's ridiculous. This weekend, though, I enjoyed some off-season fun. Ben and I went up to Vancouver, and it was awesome! We went for a ...
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Jun

9

Racing news

Category: four-leggeds, training | 6 Comments

Yesterday, my usual ride Cosmo had a bent shoe, so I didn't ride him. Instead I rode this horse: Perfect to a Tee wins 1999 Maryland Million T-Bone is retired from racing now, he foxhunts and trail rides and occasionally shows. He's a gem! I love stories of thoroughbred race horses retiring to fulfilling new careers. It used to be that thoroughbreds dominated the horse show arenas as well as the tracks, but in recent years showing tastes have turned to warmbloods from Europe. This is kind of bad news for thoroughbreds, because demand ...
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