On Saturday, August 15th, I completed my 26th long distance triathlon. Embrunman was everything I thought it would be. It was beautiful and challenging. RESULTS As I get older, I still want to feel competitive on race day. For most of my 30s I measured athletic success by how fast I could be. I feel grateful to my body that I can still race other women near the front of the field but I no longer race with outcome goals. Over the past few years I’ve leaned more into my strengths as an endurance athlete. I’m choosing races that reward athletes who excel at performing under fatigue. Instead of training in a way of “how can I get faster” I ask myself, “how can I get even better at not slowing down.” I felt incredibly prepared for Embrunman. It was one of those days when everything came together. I felt strong all day and even with some low moments they never spiraled into anything negative. I feel that this was one of my top three long distance performances in the past 20 years. I’m so pro...
Our travels started ar Monday August 10th. After a 3000 yard swim at the Y in the morning, we left our house around 11:45am and drove to ATL. I drove and thankfully, we had no traffic. We made it to our off-site parking (Peachy covered parking) before 2:30pm. We took a shuttle to the international airport and checked in for our flight with Virgin Airlines. After checking in our bags and dropping off our bikes, we went through TSA pre-check and made our way to the Centurion Lounge in terminal E. We enjoyed some good food and worked for a few hours before boarding our flight at 5:20pm. We enjoyed our Premium seats on Virgin. I always find the Virgin crew to be very friendly. I pre-selected a Hindu Vegetarian dinner meal and it was delicious - a curry with rice and chickpeas, salad, fruit, cheese and bread. I watched the Devil Wears Prada 2 and then slept for a few hours. It was a "quick" international flight of ~7.5 hours to London Heathrow. We arrived shortly after 7am, went...