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It's all such a whirlwind and I'm still emotionally and physically drained. I could probably write a 10 page paper about my race experience, but I'll try to edit myself and keep it brief-ish. If it were really brief, it wouldn't be me writing this. ;)So race day finally approached. After a nice evening filled with a healthy cooked dinner, a lavender-filled bath, some shaving, and last minute

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This is it. The next time you read a post from me, it should be after the race. Wow, that's even scary to write. Anyway, here's an update on the latest news...*Latest figures have me around $500 for donations! Yay! Although this is far from my goal of $5,000, it is a start. I'm hoping I can make it to $1,000 by tomorrow. Anyone wanna do a $500 donation? Any takers? ;)*Dropped my bike off at the

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Was I sounding calm there for a minute? Gee, sorry about that.I have gotten at least three emails from the race folks with important news in the past week and a half. The latest one, just received minutes ago, carries the following subject line: "HUGE changes in Wildman3". HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOO, LIKE I WASN'T NERVOUS ENOUGH?!Turns out all along they have been sending us details on the 2007 race, not

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It wasn't meant to be such a busy tri day, but it was.Yesterday I had ambitiously planned to hit the gym just for a quick "Oh, yeah, so this is what it feels like to swim laps" swim and to test out the spiffy new goggles. I don't believe I mentioned it here, but recently I got me some new goggles. It was long overdue, as my old ones are leaking, so I was excited to get going. Now I ended up

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Today I went for my last hard workout before the big race. Technically you are supposed to take the entire week off to prep for the race, but one of my big training days from last week was rained out (it rained from 7am through the ENTIRE day) so I felt it was ok to squeeze in one more big workout.Took the bike out and got in a solid, faster ride this time which got me huffing and puffing. I even

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Just found the News Journal online with pictures and everything. Yay!http://www.mytopiacafe.com/topic/healthandfitness/sub_detail.html?sub_type=stories&list_type=normal&sub_id=4478

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Maybe the title to this blog is a little dramatic. Maybe.Sooooooo...the race is just days away. Not 6 months, 6 DAYS. I'm nervous. It's understandable, right? I'm sure. My nerves are not being helped by the emails the race organizers keep sending out with "IMPORTANT Updates." My internet access has been spotty for the past week plus so to have such urgency coming to me in a way I can't always

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A few days ago I had a wonderful training day. A bike run combo. It was a weekday and it was midday and the bike path was mine alone. I sped along it, working hard. It was sunny and beautiful and peaceful out and the path felt like it was mostly cleared for me. It was wonderful. I came home and replaced my bike helmet with my baseball cap, grabbed my ipod, and immediately went for a run. The bike

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Phew. What a day.To start, today I finally got my butt out to the bike trail I've heard so much about. After riding to a gas station to fill up the tires, we finally snaked our way around to the trail. It starts with a memorial (made of bike parts) for 6 people who were involved in a bike accident in 1996. The group had been instrumental about getting the bike trail set up and two of the six

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I misplaced my iPod after yoga. I misplaced my training buddy when I moved. This doesn't mean the world has to come to an end, that training will cease. It just means I have to find strength from within to get off my butt and train. And it means I might have to look a little foolish doing so...So I went for a run. Without Kate, without iPod. And without stopwatch since I didn't have one. What did

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It has been some time since I've written again. Sorry!!! In the past few weeks I have moved, worked on getting settled into a new job and neighborhood, and worked on the final exam for my yoga training. Oh, and I had some acupuncture homework due. Oh and I'm training here for a triathlon which is in...gulp...just over ONE MONTH!!!I can't believe how fast time has flown. I can't believe how close

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Two days of training. Two days of swimming...The first day was planned. We wanted to do a medium sized swim, a 20 minute straight one, because there were post swim plans. Then we were off and swimming, all going well, 'till Kate's foot cramped up something awful and it was towards the end anyway so we stopped.The thing is, at this point of the training, we have to go hard but we also have to be

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Yesterday we had our tiny little brush with fame.We got interviewed and had pictures taken for an article that is slated to run in the Daytona Beach News Journal this Sunday. YIPPEE!!! Of course I'll supply the link when it happens. Of course.It was a funny process all around. Kate and I found ourselves talking non-stop about the training experience, too fast for the reporter to keep up with us.

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Two days of solid workouts, two days of getting the groove back...Yesterday we swam. A solid 26 min swim which left us with leadlike arms and blissfully tired. It was that 'warm fuzzy tired' you get from a good solid exercise. The hot tub sucked us in and was heaven. I know Kate came home and hit the hay early, and I myself showered, had a burrito and beer (thanks to my boyfriend) and hit the hay

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Tonight we planned for a 'short run' night. Originally that was going to be 3 miles. Instead, I came up with the brilliant idea that we should try to do 2.75 miles exactly (our race mileage) to see how fast we could do it. I figured it would be good to have a base time and go from there...So after the warm up, the stretching, the calculating (1/2 mile to the grey house, etc.) we were off and

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It seemed like a simple enough task: An hour bike ride. Even though I had never really done that before I was sure it wouldn't be a problem because we could be flexible on speed. No big deal.I bought a new bike seat in anticipation for the ride. Well, I needed a new one anyway since my old one is just too hard, and this seemed like the right time. I was really excited about it because it is

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I haven't written on here since Dec 12. Whoops. But don't worry, I have been exercising. Promise...There was a little exercise in the rest of December and things have picked up much in January. There have been bikes, swims, runs. All of them feel like starting over from the beginning, when really we have had over 3 months of training under our belts. I'd have to say its mostly mental, the

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Today I was hellbent on getting a lot accomplished during lunch, and I did. I did what is known in the tri world as a "brick" workout, which is a workout consisting of a combination of at least two sports. So since I have no bike that meant a run/swim. The run was good, not super fast but I got in a good 20 mins and even found a nice wide bike path that was goodtimes. The swim was cold. Man it

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Since it is my day off today (after a stint of six 9-hour days of learning learning learning) I figured I'd go for a nice solid 40 min run. Since I have an acupuncture appt in the later morning, I knew it would be best to get the run out of the way early. So I did.My stomach was feeling a little wonky but I figured if I kept it light I could do it. The run started off OK, a little tight but

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"You didn't actually think you'd wake up at 5 a.m. every day to exercise for 2 hours before school, did you?"These were the words one of my school roommates asked me today. My response? "I didn't expect to, I aspired to. There's a difference."It has been brutally cold here (exaggeration, just roll with it) lately and swimming in a non-heated pool is just out of the question. Since I'm still

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Yesterday I got the first real donation (that I know about anyway) from a fellow classmate. He gave me a little envelope with some $ and said that he was donating instead of purchasing some bamboo he had wanted because, he said, it was going to a great place. So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Oscar from the bottom of my heart. I feel so grateful of your donation and I want you to know

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So here I am, at school. Due to a last minute car snafu I didn't pack my bike, leaving me with 3 weeks of training only via swimming and running. Totally fine. And yesterday I woke up early to do a swim at the pool where I'm staying, only to realize that it was dark and cold out and I had no idea if the pool was even lit, etc. I figured I'd swim after school that day, but an interesting thing

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I've gotten some feedback (thank you!) that there was confusion about how to donate, so I figure I should try to clarify that now...There are two ways to donate:1. Online through AWB2. Sending a check to AWBIf you chose the first way, you MUST find the notes field and put 'Kristin Althea' there so they know your donation is part of my cause. I know that might not seem like a big deal, but it

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Today was kind of hectic and we didn't get out for our swim 'till about 8:30pm. Lucky for us, the pool is empty in the evenings. Unlucky for us, that cold front had blown in and getting ready to swim in the outdoor pool was harder than normal. You wouldn't BELIEVE how much my blood has thinned since my move to Florida a few years ago. Anyway, the pool we are fortunate enough to have access to is

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OK, I didn't mean that literally. But tonight's run kind of felt like it. :)It has been a few days since we exercised together thanks to Thanksgiving traveling, etc. and since I'm tied up with school prep from Wednesday night on, I figured a swim for tonight and a bike tomorrow would be a good start to the week. "How about we do our long run tonight, swim tomorrow, and do an early bike ride on

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Last night we had ourselves a run. A 46 minute run.I feel I should mention that those used to be something that seemed near impossible. I always used to define myself as a "non-runner" because, well, I wasn't. I had convinced myself that I couldn't do it, so I wouldn't really try. I figured even though I kind of wanted to be a runner but was afraid of it in some ways, perhaps my best bet would be

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Heads-up, this first post will be a long one. You expected that, right?Whelp, you may or may not have known already that I'm doing a triathlon so I'll fill you in on the details. About 3 months ago, my friend Kate asked for help with perfecting her swimming since she wanted to enter a triathlon. After some discussion, somehow or another, we decided it would be great if we did our first one

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