Tri-Dogmom

I can't seem to gather my thoughts to write any sort of readable post, so I've decided to do one of my favorites, a BULLETS post Today is an official "REST" day. It says so on my schedule. So, I decided to treat myself to a spa day and be all fabulous and stuff. Facial, massage, pedicure. Ya know, try to clean up all the aftermath of the training and get myself back into a presentable state and stuff. oh, who am I kidding. my skin might be softer and my nails pretty sparkly red, but for the most part it's same old same old no makeup/ponytail day as per usual. Ok , so I didn't actually treat MYSELF to said spa day, per say, but I'll let you ask my husband and his counterparts who purchases said spa day WHY I deserved it so much. Do, it I dare you. Over the weekend I saw tons and tons of fun posts about the infamous Ragnar Relay. I'd be lying if I said I was bummed I wasn't doing it. Of course I completely understand all the hype. Been there,

Tres Amigas! amanda…you were missed! You know the saying what happens in Vegas Mexico stays in Mexico? True, except pictures do tell a story and when we happened to have wifi at the house and bloody marys tend to be the recovery drink (post run of course) of choice….. Well, Facebook picture postingseems to takeover….. The weekend flew by with a couple of girlfriends down to partake in the debauchery and accompany me on my runs. There is definitely something to be said for your coach actually looking at the training log that makes you actually do all those scheduled runs, even after said debauchery.. Thanks girls for such a GREAT weekend. Mexico sunglasses never looked so good :-)

It's Sunday and 9am and I'm still sitting drinking my caffeine in my pajamas and not thinking about my training for the day. Cause, it's a rest day. A well deserved rest day. I have to give props to mama-son for somehow giving me just what I could manage in her first week as my coach. My training schedule started 2 days after asking her to be my coach and the day after my 5mile run race I had a run test and a swim test. Not just any swim test, a swim test with 2800 yards total for the day. I'm thinking that she misread my training log that showed I clearly haven't been swimming that far since Ironman in AUGUST, not to mention I've only been swimming about 2 days a week…. Or she just didn't care. So the run test I guess gave her some HR data and run splits that were pretty consistent with what she thought they would be, and the swim test gave her a "T-pace" which is faster than I seem to be able to hold at the moment, but I'm TRYING. I thi

Last week was somewhat bitter sweet for me. I received a rather distressing email from my coach, had a mental freak out and then came to my senses, did some research, networking and resolved the issue. But, before I go further into that let me back up a little bit. The LaPan's had BIG plans for this year. After our most successful racing year in 2010 we were ready to take advantage of our health our desire and passion for the sport and put it to test. We jumped on the bandwagon when a lot of our local athletes and friends registered for Oceanside 70.3. AND, it just so happens that race is perfect timing for Ironman CDA . Sure, been there done that… but if you follow this link, and the links highlighted as "some unfinished business," you'll understand why it was a pretty easy decision for me to make by registering for it for the THIRD time. It just so happened that the decision was also made pretty easy when our good friends from Spokane registered for IMCDA

On a whim a few days ago I decided I wanted to do a local race. I had been looking at the race calendars trying to find something to test out my running legs and mix the training up a bit. I haven't raced for a while and wanted to get out there and push myself a bit. The last event I did was the women's half marathon, which I didn't train for just held on to my fitness from Ironman so I had no idea what kinda pace I could hold for any distance race right now. I looked for some half marathons, but most of them fell on dates we were going to head out of town. Then, I found one of the oldest run races in the Valley, the Runner's Den Classic. This was my very first 10k almost 10years ago, and it was the race that gave me back my running confidence 2 years ago. It's flat, fast and fun. Unfortunately, they changed the race to a 5miler or 5k instead of 10k, but for the most part the race was the same course. My plan was to do a semi-long ride Saturday, but keep the

I get asked a lot how I find the time and or motivation to train so much. To put so much effort and energy into swim, bike, run, eat, sleep repeat. The biggest comment and question of all is, don't you get tired of not having a life? I'm starting my 5th year of training for an Ironman. My first started in 2007 (also when I started this blog ) and then in 2009 the LaPan's decided to take the year off from Ironman training/racing. After back to back Ironmans (CDA) and then some other racing hear and there we decided we would back off the distance and do smaller shorter races to maybe gain some speed back and do the things we thought we were missing out on. The plan didn't go quite as planned, and before we knew it a 40mile bike ride seemed like an 80mile bike ride and a 5 pm cocktail was a lot more common than a 5pm post work swim. Truth be told we pretty much just got fat and out of shape. And, if I'm being honest we also were a lot less happy. To say we (Shane