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First recovery week under the belt, and things feel well. A total of 13 hours of easy didn’t feel quite that easy as I am recovering from pneumonia. Fortunately I seem to acquire pneumonia once a year (pediatric emergency nurse…), that gives me the “bragging rights” (aka stupidity) to be able to train through it. [...]
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“Inhale lift…. exhale fold forward……. inhale to standing……. exhale fold forward……… inhale lift halfway……. exhale vinyasa……” She teaches us to breath cues, we have all done the poses and the sequence thousands of times, but nothing can match or replace the sound, synergy and energy of 40 people moving and breathing together. I stand in [...]
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Every one’s a buzz with new year’s resolutions. You see it everywhere you go, reinvent yourself, discover a brand new you, out with the old in with the new…….. How about we change our thinking. Why are we always trying to change who we are, forget what we are about, become someone else. Is it [...]
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I had such a lucky morning today. Beginning with Masters Practice, which begins at 5:45am. My friends Kelly Bergkessel and Heidi Grimm were in town and thus in the pool with me. The Stud Lanes were loaded to the brim, and we had a terrific workout. It was awesome to see how much Heidi has [...]
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The preparation phase of training has officially been completed. The past four weeks I have been rejoined with my coach Doug Bush http://endurancefactor.com/, and all has been going well. My volume has ranged from 9-13 hours, I am feeling good, and best of all my Achilles tendon feels terrific. I have not been able to [...]
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“Good morning Mommy.” Luc pried my eyes open at the sleep in hour of 8am. To me waking at 8am is like normal people sleeping in until noon. But I have been sick the past few days with bronchitis, self diagnosed and treated of course. I am after all a nurse and everyone knows we [...]
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Three hours, 6 crashes, no broken bones, log hopping, tree hugging, switchback mastering, hill descending, and I have finally earned the title of “Mountain biker”. It has been a long time coming and a long time earned, and while I still have a long way to go, I came come far according to my husband. [...]
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Tell me there is something more beautiful than the eyes of a child that believes, and I will argue till I am blue in the face. It doesn’t have to be that they believe in Santa, just that they believe in a world and a higher power, something out there exists that is greater than [...]
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I swim with the Rochester Area Masters Swim Team (RAMS) at the Harley school on Wednesday and Friday morning. Unbelievably this is my 6th year under the guidance of Lorie Rick, the best swim coach on earth. Our team is divided into 3 groups: Floaters, Boomers and Studs. Floaters are the beginners, Boomers are the [...]
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Time magazine announced that I am person of the year for 2006. I have always wanted to be person of the year, but for other reasons than they happen to outline. I don’t want to be person of the year because I work hard. I don’t want to be person of the year because I [...]
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