Warrior Girl Dashing…T-10 and counting

Lyric of the day:  “Maybe you’re reason why all the doors are closed So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road” Firework, Katy Perry Today’s Training:  long nap 10 training days remain.  My plan today was to run hills, either in town or making the 20 minute trek to Horseshoe Valley […]

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T-13 Warrior Girl Dashing

Today’s Training: 2-mile run, tires, walk, core work. Humid! Things I’ve learned along the way: When you ride a bike around a one-mile loop, it feels as though the wind is blowing in all directions. Then, when you get off the bike and run the same course, you will find that there are absolutely windless […]

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T-14 Warrior Girl Dashing

“Move it, move it!” I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas (Fergie) OK. I have now fully recovered from whatever that virus was that knocked me flat earlier in the week and I am back to training as usual. Today’s Training: Bike-Run-Obstacles-Run-Obstacles (45 minutes) That’s the short story.  I figure that puts me just over the haystacks […]

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T-15 Warrior Girl Reporting Late

Uh, I dunno. Lyric of the Day, “The lean and hungry type”, Maneater, Hall & Oates Day T-15`s training consisted of many hours at the computer followed by a concert at Casino Rama. Yes, yes, I know.  Not a whole lot of cardio going on there. But I did learn this: a really great way […]

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Warrior Girl Sick….T-17 and counting

Well, I`m not really sick, in the sense of being hospitalize or otherwise indisposed. But I certainly don`t feel like hauling my a—around the block. Body’s way of saying please rest? Lyric of the Day:  Gonna lay me down to sleep, unknown, lullaby Today`s Training:  uh, visualization?

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Warrior Girl Dashing….T-19 and counting

This tree reminds me to have fun when I’m training. Play! Laugh! Stop and admire the pregnant trees! It isn’t always fun. Correction: every bit of it is fun until the running makes me feel nauseous. I don’t understand this phenomenon. I can bike, ski or skate for miles, do dozens of push-ups, sit-ups, squat […]

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Warrior Girl Resting….T-20 and counting

Today’s Training: rest 3 1-mile laps, walking at different times over the course of the day Lyric of the Day: “We never quit, we never rest on the floor”, On the Floor, Jennifer Lopez ft. Pit Bull This leads to: “It’s getting ill, It’s getting sick on the floor” and since we don’t want that, […]

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