Blog Archive
I’ve resurrected my blog after a long break. Feel free to browse among my older content.
Burpee Schmurpee
Bootcamp. At 6am. In the friggin cold. On a Friday morning. Yes, that's how I finished off my week, and the only way I could cope with early morning outdoor training in the middle of winter was to sleep in my training gear purposefully oversleep so that I am forced...
Happy Dance
It's been a tough week on the work, home and training front. My run was slow and cumbersome. I had (and still have) a lot of work stress. I'm the only one in the household who isn't sick. So all in all, I didn't have a lot of fun. So after a day of emotional...
Mom, will you be eaten by sharks? (and other training tales)
Da Chick, who will be six next month, is quite a Sporty Spice: She cycles (and already made us promise that she’ll get a bike upgrade for her birthday). She’s a great little swimmer. She loves to run…
Water wings
Jaws... Piranha... Watching those movies at a time when parents didn't really care about age restrictions probably scarred me for life. Which is why I don't go in the sea deeper than ankle depth, why I don't swim in dams or rivers (Impi Challenge is another story...
Why I didn’t run yesterday
Roundabout this time, exactly two weeks ago, I was making my way home. I felt hollow inside and had a massive headache. My work deadlines and training schedule suddenly meant nothing; all I wanted was to be alone on a mountain top with a giant slab of chocolate. My...
Let the games begin!
"Sooooo babe, how'z about going to Beaverlac next weekend?" Da Husband looks at me hopefully. "We could... but that means I will miss my second training ride and I have a lot of catching up to do..." "Maybe I could go with the kids and give you some me-time?" And so...
Talk about spontaneous!
I was wandering around the house on Sunday, following every harrowing moment of what was probably the toughest Ironman to date and posting a few comments about it on Twitter, when @beanker, who I met last year when we hosted a beginners' cycling programme which she...
