Penticton Training Weekend, Take One

Last week I spent four nights in New York City, came home for a day, went to Penticton over Memorial Day weekend to train, came home for less than 24 hours, and flew to Denver (where I am right now) for work. Despite all of the jet setting, I managed to get in a decent training weekend. I have tasted Ironman Canada, and it tastes hilly and challenging.
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Help Me Raise Money for the Big Climb

My coworker Mike put together a team to do Seattle’s annual Big Climb event (this year it’s on March 22), and I am one of his easily winded participants (go Team Flabalanche!). What is the Big Climb? Well, every year the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society organizes a race to raise money for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma research. The race consists of climbing 69 flights of stairs up the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle.
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The Cheese Runs Alone

I don’t know what it is about my running speed, but I’m either too slow or too fast to run with a buddy or in a group. It’s like I give off some sort of anti-social pheromone (it’s probably sweat, which I do a lot) whereby people catch a whiff of it and are motivated to run a couple hundred yards ahead of me.
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A Conversation Between Me and My Body During a Run

On Sunday I dragged my sedentary ass outside and shuffled around Capitol Hill for four measly miles. The following is a transcript of the conversation I had with my body. Enjoy.
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  • Rebecca: It’s all thanks to you, T! Every PR I’ve had and every warm fuzzy feeling and sense of...
  • teresa: Dedication and consitent training pays off and you are a prime example!!! So proud of you and hope all...
  • Rebecca: Water water everywhere…
  • Sara Keogh: Yeah, I kept wishing they had miscalculated the sprayers and that they would reach to the road. It was...
  • Rebecca: You could have dove under one of the 18,000 fruit trees along the course. At one point I considered running...