We have a daffodil! so cheerful! It still boggles my mind that people lived in our house for 15 years and never bothered to plant any f...

This is my easy week.  Being that its an easy week, I can take few more liberties with training and life and stuff.  Yesterday called for a ...

This is getting ridiculous. I love my swim teams in Houston.  My first team (H2OUSTON Swims) was incredible - I swam with them for 3 years...

I survived my first training block of the year.  I was really nervous about my extended break and leaving only 12 weeks to Boise.  Would my ...

I was warned about this.  During training and the race, you think "once and done".  Then, after a while that feeling goes away and...

Is it me, or does it suddenly feel like *wham!* it's spring? It is 70+ degrees in Denver this week.  70.  In March.  Last year, I wa...

Until Boise.  How did that happen? And hey, my total run mileage since October is 15 miles.  I know, I'm a complete over achiever....

I've added yet another race to my calendar. There was another Schwaggle deal, and with my Active Advantage membership, it cost a wh...

Back in February, I discovered that my season rental skis did not meet my expectations.  They always seemed slow, but then I did a bunch of ...

AKA "why am I racing in the winter?" AAKA "my run training plan is to only run during races.  Maybe this isn't the best ...

I'm sponsored!!  Again!! Yesterday, I recieved a very happy email about my being accepted to Team Sun-Rype.  Woot!  This marks my th...

I started eating Paleo/Primal/Caveman/Clean/[whatever label you want to stick] since the week of Christmas. Not one of my better ideas. But ...

This winter, I've asked Will to really, truly, give snowboarding a try.  In years past, we would only have one day per year on the mount...