Race day looms August 30!

by tsaichu @ Journey to 140.6
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Posted by tsaichu on August 13th, 2009 .
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Ironman - I Did It!

by Christina @ Ironman Training



After 11 months of training, I completed my Ironman yesterday!

Here's the run-down:

T-3 days: Felt nervous, anxious. Had I trained enough? Wish I didn’t miss that weekend workout while I was in Maryland… would that affect me?

T-2 days: Focused on the pleasant task of eating lots and lots of food... Packed all of my gear, reviewed packing lists several times. ...

Posted by Christina on August 2nd, 2009 .
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IM France - this is gonna be as long as my bike split

by Dan @ Get in The Water!
IM France is done but what a day, what week.
Started off on the Monday before - I took PTO the week before the race and the week after. Actually pre-race started on Saturday - Franny and Katie took me for my traditional pre-race pedicure in Los Gatos. This place was really nice and had a better color of purple for my toes. Still looking for the right green though.
Monday morning ...

Posted by Dan on July 3rd, 2009 .
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Inspiration

by Christina @ Christina in Training

This week three years ago, I was training with Team in Training to run my first marathon and I became connected to the cause in a way that will forever be with me. It went something like this.

I knew that Leukemia was the kind of cancer kids can get. That was pretty concerning to me and I thought anything I ...

Posted by Christina on May 9th, 2009 .
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Napa Valley Half-Ironman

by Christina @ Ironman Training
What a day!  I was up at 4am to drive to Lake Berryessa near Napa.  I'd never been up there, and was struck by how nice it is up there.  This has actually been a recurring theme during my training - seeing places for the first time and wondering why I've never seen them before.
The event was very small - I'm guessing there were 300 people there, which was a nice change of pace. ...

Posted by Christina on May 2nd, 2009 .
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Half Ironman

by Christina @ Ironman Training
This Saturday, I completed a half-Ironman training event near Lake San Antonio. It feels fantastic to get to this milestone. I've spent the past three weeks trying to recover from a nagging cold, which forced me to do very light workouts. That might not sound like a big deal at first, but here's an example of the impact of this. A couple weeks ago, the team had ...

Posted by Christina on April 1st, 2009 .
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Half way to an ironman! (photos)

by tsaichu @ Journey to 140.6
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Posted by tsaichu on March 31st, 2009 .
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Is it summer yet?

by Christina @ Christina in Training
If you have not noticed it has been raining. A lot. Last Sunday the schedule said "Open Water Swim & 10 Mile Run." Remembering that I had experienced "some level of discomfort" during my last open water swim I thought I would be sneaky and "support" a few of my favorite people, who were running the Napa marathon last Sunday, and if that prevented my from attending the open water swim, I ...

Posted by Christina on March 7th, 2009 .
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Photo Blog: A week in the life of…

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Posted by tsaichu on February 9th, 2009 .
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Road ride with Chirag

by Christina @ Ironman Training
Proof that I'm crazy... I just completed a 63 mile bike ride -my longest yet. Wait...that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is that this comes on a day when I was supposed to ride about half this distance according to our training calendar.

Why would I choose to do this? I could blame Chirag - my riding partner for the day - pressuring me into riding longer than ...

Posted by Christina on February 1st, 2009 .
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