Skip to main content

2015



What a year. 2015 was pretty stellar. Goal wise, I completed 3 triathlons, one with a top 3 finish in my age bracket and one being my first Ironman. I became an Ironman. Pretty dope. I got my first tattoo. I went to Portland, Whistler, Kauai, Kona, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and had some great weekend getaways in our gorgeous state. I started focusing on trail running after Ironman, and found my next athletic pursuit - ultramarathons. Overall, 2015 was a great year.

I'm not big on New Years Resolutions. I set goals throughout the year. If I don't have a goal I'm working towards, I feel lost. Instead, I like to take this time of year to reflect on the direction of my life and where I want to spend focus the coming year... 2016 will include:
  1. Running my first 50k.
  2. Completing a sub 14 hour Ironman.
  3. Travel.
  4. Travel.
  5. Travel.
  6. Cook more.
I spent December running, just running. I've been running 6 days a week, running between 4-10 miles per run. I'm getting faster, running 8:xx minute miles. The holiday season stresses me out, with so many obligations (which I LOVE, but still are added stressors), and running is the only thing that evens me out and keeps me sane. AND fits into my schedule.
My therapy
















I've gotten on the trails more than I thought I would during the holidays. I had 3 weeks away from Cougar Mountain, and the day I finally got back, it was like every ounce of stress I had internalized was released. I think I smiled almost the whole 9 miles.

In 2015, I ran a lot. I averaged 3.6 miles a day, running more than 1300 miles. This was less than last year, since Ironman training decreased my monthly average of 130-150 miles down to 80-100 miles during training. But that's ok. Between swimming, biking, and running, I covered 3600 miles this year. Pretty wild. 

 I'm proud of all I accomplished and worked towards this year. In 2016, I'm hoping to accomplish more while better maintaining balance in life. 



007


Best view :-)


NYE
Looking forward to lots of travel the next few months before Ironman training ramps up - NYC, Philadelphia, D.C., and maybe one other trip. We will see!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My running journey

I never considered myself a runner despite being an athlete my whole life. After an ACL injury took me out of competitive sports in high school and I went through 9 months of physical therapy, I started running on treadmills to try to get back into shape. It makes me laugh now because you couldn't pay me to run on a treadmill. I was too afraid to run outside; I am by no means some incredibly graceful and natural looking runner. I didn't do cross country or track in high school... I don't look like the Nike ads - and that made me self-conscious. Little did I know the beauty of it all is that no one looks like that. Hit a trail any Saturday  or Sunday morning and it is filled with all kinds of people - old and young, skinny and heavier, graceful and clumsy; they all have something in common - they're trying! And they're all runners. I started dating Isaac when I was 20. A few months into our relationship, he made a simple statement - "running outside is h...
Post a Comment
Read more

2021/2022 - Pregnancy, baby, return to racing

WOW. So much has changed since I last posted in here. About two months after that last post I found out I was pregnant!  I spent 2021 in various phases of life: First trimester I was super sick and actually unable to even get much movement in! I don't think I've ever worked out that little in my life! Every day just felt like a struggle to survive. Second and third trimesters I was able to swim, bike, run and lift. I was able to run up until a couple days before I gave birth! I mostly ran and lifted - I hated biking pregnant and wanted to limit my covid exposure so I didn't go to the pool super consistently until the very end of my pregnancy. I spent the rest of 2021 fumbling my way through learning how to be a mom and take care of a baby! It was months of living in a haze of no sleep, hormones and tears BUT with all of that in the rear view, it was an amazing time of growth and learning so much. I had 4 IM branded deferred races from 2020 that rolled to 2021, then to 2022....
Post a Comment
Read more

"She doesn't even go here!"...I have a lot of feelings.

As we've been tapering, I've been overwhelmed with all kinds of feelings. Happiness, fear, anxiety... all the feelings, more than I've felt in a while. I have been so exhausted the past 6 months that I've felt a constant state of being "out of it" and haven't felt as emotionally connected, so this overwhelming rush of emotions throughout the days has been very different. I thought that when they said not to go crazy during taper that it would only apply to elite athletes that train a LOT harder than me. Already, I've found myself pushing my workouts too hard. Everything this week is supposed to be super easy or don't do it at all. I'm swimming, biking, and running too fast and hard. It's challenging to not keep pushing at the intensity I'm so used to - every workout I have to remind myself constantly to slow down - total opposite of everything up until now! While tapering has certainly been challenging mentally and emotionally, I am e...
Post a Comment
Read more