Seattle Ironwoman

Raced the Lake Meridian Triathlon this weekend for the third time! The athletes range from first time triathletes participating in a super sprint to super competitive Kona level Ironman triathletes racing the oly distance (LOTS of people wearing Ironman gear pre-race!) Because Isaac is the earliest person I have ever met (I would be totally fine showing up 20 minutes pre-race, finding a spot to rack my bike and throwing on my wetsuit!) we left Seattle at 5am. The race started at 7am so I guess we weren't TOO early... but still. Not fun getting up at 4am on a Saturday! I was super nervous to race, I always am. I am so competitive, but also have this inner mean girl who likes to tell me things like "you're not fast enough to compete in this sport" or "you'll never be that fast" or "you're actually not that good at triathlon" or "you're not a good cyclist" (I say that last one out loud a LOT). I setup my transition, pretty mini...

I am two months into my six month training block for Ironman Arizona! (11/19 in Tempe). It feels so RIGHT to be back into  triathlon specific training. I've spent the first half of this year focusing on my nutrition, working out as much as I could to drop some weight before training started. I dropped 15lbs but also gained a lot of muscle! Looking forward to seeing how these changes in my body composition affect my training and race times. Also, would love to drop 5-10 more pounds during training to get to my ideal racing weight. Which shouldn't be hard now that I've figured out my macros and gotten everything nutritionally dialed in! (and will be working out 2 hours a day during the week and 4-8 hours each weekend day...) I've already gotten faster on my average run time, will be fun to see what I can do speed wise when I race a couple shorter tri's the next few months. I'm using TrainingPeaks this time around for training - a training plan written by D3 Multi...