Rochester Kids Triathlon

This season Train-This has grown enough to be able to sponsor some races with money! That’s a really great feeling. This sport has given me so much….. I believe that each of us should give back in some way. A few times a year I volunteer my time, and so do the athletes I work with. [...]

Far out.

This morning I literally opened the drier and emptied it back into my suitcase… I am hitting the road again! Lake Placid, here we come! It’s been a really great week, piggybacking on a really great weekend. I think one of the things I am most proud of is that I was able to kick [...]

Two more sleeps

I love race week. I love the flutter in my heart, I love the feeling of being nervous, I love gluing tires on, I love shining up my bike, I love packing up my gear. Most of all….. I love being able to travel to a race with my husband. We don’t do many races [...]

Concert

My heart was absolutely pounding for him. It was the annual spring concert, and a concert at our school is a little but different from a concert at a general education school. This is a really.big.deal not only to these kids but to the parents of these kids. It’s not easy for them to get up [...]

Break the Board

I love to ride to Bristol and Naples. There is just something about riding down there that fills me up. I also love to my long rides primarily alone. What others call a long ride I typically call…. a break. On a daily basis I work with so many people in so many different capacities [...]

Perspective on Hurt

Throughout my ten years of motherhood I have learned that my son was born to us to teach us. He came into our lives for a reason. I think as a parent you wonder what they learn from you, and now all these years later I could write a book on all he had taught [...]

Intuition again

Coaching the female athlete part II now on Xtri!!!! AND…. one of my favorite blog posts ever from my sister-from-anotha-motha… Sonja can be found right here. A really good read! I think I smiled the whole time. So did the rest of the gang. There was just so much to smile about. The weather was [...]

Normal

(I know we changed to a Mon / Wed / Friday publishing schedule……  but I definitely wanted to share….. my XTri column begins on Wednesday, and I have a really terrific line up of interviews….. tomorrow I shall share……) It will never be normal. That’s our reality. How many times do I have to be [...]

Memory

October 11th, 2004. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Isn’t it interesting how some days we can’t even remember the conversations we had with people, yet other days we remember every detail and can remember every smell? We can still feel the feelings, still feel the emotions? That’s what October 11th 2004 is [...]

The Trauma Life

It was 28 minutes door to door. Arrival to operating room, although if you were us it seemed like eternity. “Is it like ER or Scrubs?” The question I have been asked time and time again. It’s a little but of both. But I remember that trauma like it was yesterday, although years have passed. I [...]

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