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Inspirational Athletes
Oh weekends why must you disappear so fast. It was such a great weekend, full of exercise, food and lots of friends. On Friday, I made the decision to ship my own bike to the race and dropped it off...
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5,000 Kettle Bell Swings
I swear I did that many yesterday. It was brutal. It was something completely different from my last 18 Saturdays. I did a bootcamp. If you don’t know what a kettle bell swing is – here is a link...
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OVER BOLUS AND TRAIL RIDES!
THE OVER BOLUS AND STUNNING TRAIL The past two Saturdays I have rented a cyclocross bike – a lovely Trek ION from Trek of Highland Park Trek ION attempted to join the group cyclocross ride. The first...
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T1D
The past two weekends I have attended two different diabetes related fundraisers. The first one “The Santa Speedo Run” is a 1 mile jog around the magnificent mile area on Michigan Avenue in Chicago....
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Its a Miracle I tell ya!
This is not me! One of my only goals this year is to try and become a little more flexible. See the word “little” I don’t want to set myself up for failure. For example I will never be able to do...
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WHAT ARE MY LIMITATIONS?
I have been struggling to put together my race schedule for this year. As of today the only race I have officially signed up for is Ironman Arizona in November of this year. Everything else is up in...
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Perfect Training and Perfect Race Execution
Perfect training execution and perfect race execution. A few days ago, this is what I was told I had to do in order to finish the Leadville 100 mountain bike race. But first a catch up. I haven’t...
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Leadville training weeks 8-10 – flatlanders unite
Although it looks like my average day blood sugars the above picture is the elevation changes of the leadville mountain bike race. I try not to look at this too much. Depending on what minute (yes...
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Perfect storm for procrastination
It was one of those days today. It went from getting up at 7 to drive to Indiana to do some single track to getting up much later and riding out to botancal gardens and back. The perfect storm was:...
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Leadville training weeks ?
I am here. I’ve arrived I arrived in Leadville today. It seems like the last month has been a whirlwind. This is it. This is the true test. I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the past...
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Stop and Start
The question has come up lately about whether or not to stop your watch during a workout. For instance at a rest stop during a bike ride do you stop your watch? Or at a stop light while running do...
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Getting through the Leadville 100 MTB Race
The hardware. Early in 2013 a group of 30+ Vision Quest (http://www.visionquestcoaching.com/) athletes had signed up to do the Leadville 100 MTB race many were roadies, some were triathletes (me) some...
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An Evening with Andy Potts
Mental Toughness: “the ability to consistently perform towards the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of competitive circumstances.” Andy, Mike his coach and Robbie I recently had the...
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The Dirt on Dirty Kanza
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY DIRTY KANZA TRAINING. If you’ve looked at my race schedule for this year you may have noticed the “Dirty Kanza” aka The Dirty. A couple of things to note – there is no “tri” in the...
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Power of positivity
Power of positivity. Following up from my last post, here is a picture of my blood sugar levels on the third day. If you ever wonder what I mean when I say each day is a different, this should be case...
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DIABETES BLOG WEEK
This week I signed up to participate in diabetes blog week. Diabetes blog week was started by a diabetes blogger – www.bittersweetdiabetes.com. Each day bloggers write about a certain topic. I...
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The road to Rebecca’s Private Idaho – part 1
These are my hi-lights of the summer getting ready for RPI part 2 will be the race report. I wanted to write about them as I went but well, you know, life. I just returned from Sun Valley, Idaho. A...
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