Lyric of the Day (Raise Your Glass, Pink):  So raise your glass if you are wrong In all the right ways All my underdogs, we will never be, never be Anything but loud And nitty gritty dirty little freaks Won’t you come on, and come on, and Raise your glass Just come on and come […]

Today’s training: 2 1-mile walks & a lot of napping Lyric of the day:   Now I lay me down to sleep…. lullaby, author unknown OK, granted I am posting this on the morning of race day, not actually on T-1.  Yesterday was a day for rest before the race. It was also a day for the […]

  Today’s Training: 8-mile bike including 3 1-mile uphills (yes, the dreaded hill from T-12) Whereupon I popped off my bike and into my running shoes thinking I would finish up with a 1-km cool-down run. My right knee had other ideas: stop, stop, for the love of Pete, STOP!   It took a few hundred metres for […]

Today’s Training:  Full Course 5km+ with 12 obstacles Lyric of the day: I hope you know, I hope you know That this has nothing to do with you It’s personal, myself and I Big Girls Don’t Cry, Fergie I ran the entire course! I didn’t stop during any of the running portions. I used all […]