Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

The day before travel is always stressful. Packing, cleaning, finishing up work to-do's and of course, getting our furry crew together for a 1-mile trip down the road to "Grandma's". After a busy Monday, it was finally time for our trip to Kona on September 27th. Flying out of our local airport (Greenville/Spartanburg) makes for a smooth start to traveling. The airport is small, which means we can get through parking, check-in, security and then to our gate in less than 30 minutes (if that long!) but everyone is super nice. It is a pleasant flying experience!  With a 14-hour travel day ahead (divided into 3 flights - Greenville to Atlanta to Honolulu to Kona) I made sure to stay hydrated with a water bottle that I continually kept filled throughout our entire travel.  Karel and I both sported our new Trimarni Kona crew t-shirts, which made for a lot of friendly conversations throughout our travel....." You do all of that in one day????" I made sure...

Karel and I love to travel and we love to race. In 2013, we planned a season of race-cations to celebrate our love of traveling and racing.  It's been quite a season, with a lot of highs and some lows but well, that's all part of being an age-group triathlete.  Just because you sign up for a race, it does't mean that life will be easy. If anything, life gets a bit more complicated.  But in order to find success in both life and sports, you have to do the best you can to keep everything balanced with whatever you commit yourself to in life. It's hard to believe but Ironman Wisconsin will be our last  race-cation  of the year and come Monday we will be enjoying our off-season! We started our racing schedule in March with our first race, HITS OCALA HALF IRONMAN, as a tune-up race for the season.  Then in May, in the end of packing up our townhome for our move to Greenville, we raced  St. Croix 70.3 .  Then, just 6 wee...