Chickamauga Half Marathon Report
Well finally the day had come. Kenny and I registered for this event back on January 18. Ten months later and here we are. I was prepared and well rested. Kenny was fighting a nagging knee issue but I am happy to say we both finished!!!!Here are the details.Pre Race!We left town Friday afternoon in an attempt to get up to the race site just a tad early. Atlanta traffic had a different idea in mind, so we finally reached the race site at 5:30pm. Just in time for packet pick up and the pasta dinner. Packet Pick up was fairly easy because we had our trusty buddy Tim there to lead the way. Luckily our name was in the S - Z line and not A - F, bec

You Need to VOTE... For my new bike!
This week was a super happy fun filled place at my computer. Why you ask? Because Trek finally went live with their 9.8 WSD Equinox on the Project One Website.What is that in English you ask? It means, Stefanie has a cool new website to play with in order to build her triathlon Bike. SWEETNESS! I have been waiting months for this to go live. And if all things go well, I should be ordering it within the next 6 months.I pretty much know exactly what I want but I need your help. Even if you know nothing about bikes you can help with this decision. I need help picking out a paint scheme!So please vote. Let me know which one you like better!

One Week to go!
I have one week until Chickamauga and I am extremely excited. Sure I am getting nervous but really I am just ready for this race to be here. The anticipation is killer.Here is a recap of my past week. After Tuesday's miraculous run:Wednesday- Spinning class on a bike with killer resistance (Bad Idea, should have moved to a different bike once I realized it was "broke")Thursday- Purposely Easy Run (11:54 average for 2.54 miles)Friday- Swam 1000 Easy with TI drillsSaturday- 25 mile bike ride (easy ride at 14.9mph)Sunday- Last "Long" Run (5 miles in 1:00:43... basically my goal race pace)Recently I have h

Did I Seriously just do that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Two great days of running in the books.Sunday, I geared up for my last long run before the Chickamauga Half Marathon. Ten miles is not a foreign distance to me and this is one of the first times I was not nervous heading into my run. I actually felt fairly calm and ready to tackle the mileage. My mini goal was to hold a 12 minute pace and finish the 10 miles in 2 hours. My goal for the race is to use a 4/1 interval so that is how I trained my 10 mile run.I fell a little short of my 2 hour goal but I wasn't disappointed at all. At the half way mark I knew it wasn't going to happen but there was a miracle that did occur; I didn't beat myself up over it. Recently I have

Tri COOTER!!!!!!
Twas the Night before Cooter...We arrived in Florida the day before the race and stayed at the In-Laws house. We had a bit of fun running around south Georgia and Florida looking for a Bike Store on the way down. Part of pleasure and part because we were out of Heed. We ended up hitting two local bike stores in our destination city of all places. LOL On the plus side, I am pretty sure I am going to buy a store jersey from a really neat LBS.We neded the night after dinner with a quick trip to Publix. Kenny and I decided to try out a new ice cream and bought the Purely Decadent Coconut Milk Ice Cream. It was good but I dont know if it was the best idea to split