It occurs to me that it's possible there are still people out there who read my blog without it being linked, and who enjoy my race reports. In case that person exists, I apologize that I have not shared my Swimrun Lake James 2021 race reportIt's another co-written race report, and there are lots of ridiculous photos and even more ridiculous words ( Read more... )

In case anyone still reads my livejournal directly, or via RSS, I TRIED to post my Austin SwimRun race report here, as usual, but it was evidently too long. If that doesn't scare you off wanting to read it ( Read more... )

SwimRun Lake James in 2018 might have been the first swimrun that we did, but SwimRun NC was the race that first got me interested in swimrun. One of the features of the race is that they get some AMAZING photographers to come out and take pictures of the course and of the race, and when I saw some of those pictures after SRNC 2017, I fell in love ( Read more... )

Editorial Note: This is my first time co-writing a race report! I wrote up my experience, then I gave it to Trista who went through and added her comments. This is me. This is Trista. I loved seeing how her race differed from mine, and I had to fight not to go back through and comment on HER comments, because then this race report would never, ever ( Read more... )

I actually didn't intend to do this swim. Our Tuesday runs have moved from earlyearly morning to afterwork (so much warmer, but less humid, and we often get post-run popsicles), so I expected to be running Tuesday night. Then Karen had a board meeting that evening, so moved our run to the earlyearly morning again. So I could swim. Did I want to ( Read more... )

Every year I've donated to someone doing the Colin's Hope swim, and been jealous because the training and the swim looked like so much fun. But I was invariably training for something else that didn't lend itself to so much swim training, or had just finished my big event. This year, however, all I did the first few months of the year was swim, ( Read more... )

Month one was popular enough that they did it again! I still don't love the pricing ($20 for a 750 or 1500m swim? There's gotta be more logistics involved for Splash'n'Dash, and it's only $10. Maybe if they can get more people to go, they can bring down the price. Of course, when does anyone ever DECREASE the price of something?) (woah, that was a ( Read more... )

I didn't particularly want to race. I've been having a good run of pretending that racing doesn't exist (as you can tell, based on the tumbleweeds blowing by on my usually-just-race-reports blog). But this was Pure Austin's first open water swim race, hoping to become a series, and I wanted to show my support and boost their numbers ( Read more... )

I'm busily training for the Colin's Hope Got2Swim Lake Austin 10k swim. It's still 2 months away, which is a good thing, because my longest swim so far has only been 1.75 hours, 3.1 miles. I have some work ahead of me to double that distance ( Read more... )

I've really been embracing this whole Off Season thing. Ultraman last year, two 50k trail runs, and then.. not a whole lot of anything since then. Some riding in preparation for the Easter Hill Country Tour, but maybe 9 hours of riding since then, 3 of which were commuting. (Maybe I'll write a Life Update at some point and talk about that a bit. ( Read more... )