A little bit at a time

A friend (Hi Rob!) has reminded me throughout this knee surgery/recovery process to take the long view. I can't say that patience is one of my strengths, in fact, I can tell you for certain that it is NOT, but there's also nothing that I can do to speed up this process. I will say …

Looking back at 2018

Yes, I somehow failed to write anything between November and now, despite the fact that I can list off a good number of 'happenings'!  While I'd like to sit back and reflect on those events and also on the year as a whole, I think that summarizing might actually be more helpful to me and …

Road tripping: Whistler and Squamish

At times I feel spectacularly boring or predictable when it comes to life and the patterns that seem to define my experiences or to which I revert.  Case in point, back in 2014, when I undertook the first full ironman journey, I wanted the trip part to be about more than just the race.  And …

Post mortem: IM Canada

There's this saying "Third time's charm", which might be true in some cases, but I don't think that I'd sum up my Ironman Canada experience in such a way. It's been just over two weeks ago since I crossed the finish line, and I'm still sorting through the experience.   I have to be honest …

Sizzling summer (already?)

Although it technically isn't summer (we're still a week shy of that date), it has felt like summer since mid-May, and our yard would definitely agree with that sentiment!  It has already been a scorcher here in Colorado, and, yes, the fire season kicked off with a vengeance.  It is WAY too early for fire …

Training: Two steps forward, a somersault back

That literally sums up my training this spring.  I'm not where I was in October, but to describe my winter and spring training as uneven would be a slight understatement.  My first "race" is coming up, and I feel woefully unprepared - or, well, woefully unfit for this particular distance and race.  I've certainly learned quite …

How is it even possible?!

That we are in APRIL?  I mean, really?  What's happening?! I guess that's what happens to your poor, neglected blog when you just aren't feeling it.  Whatever "it" is.  I sort of feel that I should do a Monty Python "not dead yet" impersonation, that I really am still here, but I'll leave that to …

You know you’re getting older when…

I feel that, as I look at that half-century point which seems to be closing in at a quicker pace every year, there are a multitude of ways that could finish this statement aptly.  The grey hairs, of course, springing up on my head (and sometimes elsewhere!); the wrinkles that have appeared, especially over the …

Looking back at you, 2017!

I'd rather not gloss over 2017 and make it look like a banner year, since, well, it wasn't.  Not that it was the annus horribilis of 2016 (personally, one of the worst years on the books), but I can't say that it was *awesome*.  However, there were definite highlights amidst a sense of "what am …

Crying over burnt soup

As much as I originally wanted and planned and plotted to write about exciting adventures and all of the cool stuff that I took up when we left California and planted ourselves in Colorado, I find myself totally stuck and not wanting to write, to share, to open up about anything these days.  It seems …