The hardest part of my job isn’t getting athletes fit. The challenge of the coach is to get athletes to believe in themselves to execute that fitness on race day….
The other day, all but 11 states registered in with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees. Illinois being one of them. For the record, and we’ve broken a lot of records recently,…
About 14 years ago, I did my first triathlon. At a local women’s race in my hometown. Since then, the race has taken on many different names (River’s Edge, Danskin,…
In a little over a month, Max will be 2 years old. I Two years marks the transition from talking in terms of “he’s xx months” to “years.” Years. He’s…
This weekend, I did my first triathlon of the 2012 season. Flashback to the year 2000, the last time I did this race. How long ago was that? I placed…
One of the topics I find myself talking about over and over again with athletes is nutrition. Nutrition is complicated. Most adults come to this sport with years of media-supplied…
Sunday afternoon, I was driving back from a fun photo shoot with 6 amazingly fit, beautiful and driven moms and our collective 9 children. Max was in his carseat, putting…
You know you’ve become the domesticated version of yourself when you send an email to your husband with the contents of a revenge plot on your neighbors. We’ve been living…
St. Patrick’s Day: corned beef, leprechauns, green beer, parades. For the Irish, it’s probably an equation that couldn’t get any better. For the non-Irish, it’s a reason to run a…