Race Report: My First DNF at the Kinetic 1/2 Ironman
Kinetic 1/2 Ironman (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, 13.1-mile run) at Lake Anna State Park near Fredericksburg, VA. I knew going into this race that my left calf muscle might give me trouble. A week and a half before, the lower part of the soleus (inner calf muscle) had tightened near where it attaches to the Achilles’ tendon. I finished my run but the muscle did not loosen up. When I ran again a few days later, it tightened again. I took almost a week off from running before the race to give time for healing. Up until the run, the race was uneventful for me except for the rain on...
Read MoreCrashing Through My Glass Ceiling: What Does It Take?
There is an invisible ceiling out there that I can’t see but I know it’s there because I run into it every time I race. Bam! I hate it because it’s limiting my potential as an athlete. I’ve lived with the ceiling now for about four years. The ceiling was set four years ago that I broke under the nine hour barrier in the Ironman-distance at the inaugural Blue Devil Triathlon in North Carolina. I have never been able to repeat the absolute near perfect performance that I achieved on that day. I race against the clock. I want to go faster. I need to break through the...
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