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 o