Friday, April 21, 2017. Severe adrenal fatigue is no joke. My last post was back in August - crazy! There has been a lot of rest, rejuvenation and regrowth since then. You may never run again. Caroline - Process the words that are coming out of his mouth. When this tri thing is done my next chapter will be ultra running. So how do I get through this.

By lap two I must have passed a few hundred people. I am glad I had held back as my pace was not as quick and easy as the first lap. The good news is my left foot had stopped hurting. I kept up my race on feel with my quick stops at aid stations for water and more ice as necessary. I lowered my volume of training from 18-20 hours per week for previous races to .

With exactly 6 months to go until Kona. I thought this would be a great time to jump-start the blog which, going forward, will include training updates, stories, photos, and plant-powered motivation. So what have I been up to since Ironman Cozumel. I took a solid 2 months.

Monday, March 30, 2015. Saturday was my 8th time racing at Ironman California 70. 3 and it was my fastest outing yet! Does that make me a slow learner? Who spent hours with me to figure out what was going on hormonally in my body. We did blood, saliva, urine testing until she had a complete picture of what was working. and what was clearly not working. I wrote about some of the findings here. While training for Oceanside had been going fairly well, I did .

Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Ironman Arizona - November 16, 2014. New Jersey is known as the armpit of America and I think I found its cousin in Tempe, Arizona. I should have been suspicious of this race characteristic with the lead sponsor, Waste Management. This was Ironman number 3. they say three is a charm, third is lucky and there were many signs of this luck throughout the day. I am a slow swimmer. I met a guy, .