Tri-Dogmom

As I mentioned in an earlier post , I have always been inspired by Jen Harrison's pay it forward reward that she does every year.  Now that I'm a coach myself, and slowly starting to build my business, I thought this is my chance!  I'm having so much fun helping others and not only is my guidance helping the athletes, but I also feel like it's helping me as I continue to train and pursue my goals. I received some amazing emails, applications and until the week before the deadline, I had my decision narrowed down to 3 people.  Then, I got a last minute note from a very sweet woman that as soon as I read it my decision was made.  There is not just one thing about this woman's story that stuck out, but this feeling that I got as I read it.  As soon as I finished, I didn't even say anything, I just handed my computer to my husband an his words were my exact feelings, "wow."   She was the one. While our stories are not the same, some of her tragedy a...

I have so many things to say, but I wanted to get this race report out first while it's still so fresh in my mind. As many know I decided to try and qualify for Boston after a couple of glasses of wine and some peer pressure. To be honest, I'm not usually that easy to convince. Well, I used to be. Then, running too much left me injured far too much and I really do enjoy doing training and racing Ironman. But, after my mom passed I got this new found motivation and courage to just shoot for the stars.  Mind you, Boston was not something on my bucket list. When I started running marathons the idea of running a "3:40" was just so far out of what I thought possible that I just never even imagined I would try. Well, I took the challenge and I worked my ass off.  For the first time in many years I focussed about 5 months on running.  Running fast, running long. Cycling and swimming took a backseat. The training nearly broke me, but worse than that it nearly took my love ...