Carol on January 11th, 2010 4 Comments »

I received a letter from a blog reader this week, and wanted to share it with you.  I think this message is the key to success. Question: Hi Carol- My name is Lori and I came across your blog accidently while googling triathlon information.  I am a 37-year old mother of two and getting ready for my [...]

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Carol on January 3rd, 2010 4 Comments »

A blog friend named Kevin posted a year in review list, and I thought it was a great idea.  So, I am copying his idea  -  I even viewed the source code on his site and copied the html code to get the table formatting.     Here is my year in review by the numbers. [...]

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Carol on December 29th, 2009 7 Comments »

I did the trainer ride with a Pro again tonight at Inside Out Sports in Cary, NC.  Pro Triathlete Richard Armstrong led the group tonight.   He said it might be boring.  He was right.    He was driving home the point that off season should be aerobic base training, NOT intensity. And we triathletes have a [...]

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Carol on December 26th, 2009 No comments »

My family spent a few days at Christmas in the North Carolina mountains. On the day before Christmas, we went skiing at Cataloochee in Maggie Valley. Cataloochee is a small eastern ski area with 3 lifts and 16 slopes. Recent snowstorms in the NC mountains gave a nice solid base for skiing. We got lost [...]

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Carol on December 19th, 2009 7 Comments »

I was having trouble motivating myself to get out the door for my long run.  It was dreary and cold outside today.   We were supposed to get some pretty snow, but it turned into an icky freezing rain instead.   I love running in snow, but not so much the cold drizzle. A twitter friend named [...]

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