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IM 70.3 Blue Ridge - Quick Recap

  Our racing block was a success. We completed three long distance triathlons in 29 days.  May 7th - Ironman World Championship  (St. George, Utah) May 22nd - Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga  (Chattanooga, TN) June 5th - Ironman 70.3 Blue Ridge (Roanoke, Virginia) The past 4 weeks have been fun, exciting, challenging and empowering.  FUN Although traveling can be stressful, we love our race-cations. In St. George, Karel re-connected with his friends from Czech. We were reunited with the beauty of the red rocks in and around St. George. In Chattanooga and Roanoke, we had over 20 Trimarni team members participating in each race. It was so great to see familiar faces. We love racing and being able to travel to three different places in a month was a lot of fun. Each race provided us with a different race experience and unique course features. The community support, volunteers and professionalism for each race was incredible and we felt welcomed (and safe) at every race v...

My first book signing

It was a jammed-packed three days but it was all worth it. On Thursday afternoon, I made the 2.5 hour drive to the Charlotte Running Company - Promenade location. This was a somewhat last-minute event to put together so I was grateful to have a small group of local runners, fitness enthusiasts and triathletes in attendance. A big thank you to Leyla and Kelly and Meg Fillnow for promoting (and attending).  To start the event, I gave a short motivational talk discussing how to get more out of an exercise/training journey with becoming obsessive, rigid or extreme. I then followed up answering several nutrition questions and had my first ever book signing. While my intention as an author is to write books that are helpful, inspiring and educational, it was a great honor to sign books and to connect with my readers. I even had one female who has used my sport nutrition book in her dietetic practice - the book was filled with post-it notes and highlighted sentences. A...