Most that know me personally are aware that I worked for Trader Joe’s as a package designer. (As my LinkedIn profile asserts… if you’ve ever shopped at Trader Joe’s there is a great chance…
-
-
In a little over two months I’ll be competing in my fourth marathon, specifically Sugarloaf Marathon in Maine. I’ve recently gone into panic mode because my Strava numbers indicate a gross deficit of mileage…
-
it’s not the race, it’s the journey One moment I was dreamingly swimming in my first full Ironman in Copenhagen, Denmark and 12 hours later I was was sitting in bed registering for Ironman Maryland… there is…
-
If you’ve ever trained for anything long course (marathon, ultra, 70.3, Ironman, etc.) you know how exhausting gels, blocks and bars can get–the stickiness, the sweetness, the awful tastingness. I’ve definitely consumed my fair share…
-
“Give me your hand, you have to get out of the water,” a heavy Danish accent demanded a second time, “We must take you out of the water. You cannot continue.” A large set…
-
the power of the seaweedy subconscious When you’re out on a triathlon course for six hours swimming, biking and running there’s a hypnotic amount of time to ruminate about all sorts of things. For example,…