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Defiant Athlete: Week 16
This week has been an exercise in figuring out how my body works when I’m emotionally and physically exhausted. I could have blown all of this off this week. Easily. Without looking back. Instead, I found myself wanting the gym. … Continue reading
Defiant Athlete: Week 10
It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten weeks already. I’m still not up to 800 training points, but I feel like I made real progress this week. I was able to do 18 minutes on the elliptical, when I … Continue reading
On Being an F.A. Missionary
When I first started training, I had the goal in mind of being ready (and able) to join a boot camp program when we move this summer. I saw it as a step toward my athletic goals. The things I’ve … Continue reading
Defiant Athlete: Week 8
It’ll write my two month progress report on Monday. Two months seems like both a really long time and no time at all to me. It seems like a long time, because I am fighting the frustration of not getting … Continue reading
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HAES-Style Training
When I’m working on the treadmill, or walking outdoors, and I reach the point where I just want to stop, I have a mantra that I repeat to myself, over and over: Shaunta Alburger, you are an Ironwoman. It gives … Continue reading
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Am I Brave Enough to be the Last of the Last?
There is a 5K run/walk in Reno in August. I clicked through to the website and took a look at the race results from last year, thinking that this would give me something to strive for. Some idea of how … Continue reading
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Athleticism Deserves Protection
Athleticism, it seems to me, is something to be protected. Like an endangered animal, it needs to be coddled a little, given just the right environment and the chance to reproduce in a controlled space. After a while, it will … Continue reading
Defiant Athlete: Week 7
This has been a good week for me. (I’m finding that hard to say, in light of the colossally not-good (turns out there is not an adequate variation on the word ‘bad’) week so many millions of people had.) A … Continue reading
Training Points and Self-Coaching
When I was a young athlete I had lots of coaches. A swim coach and assistant coach, a soccer coach, a track coach. They’d tell me what to do, how hard to push. A team sport, like soccer, often involves … Continue reading
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Defiant Athlete: Week 5
In her book Shape Up with the Slow Fat Triathlete, Jayne Williams talks about how sometimes it is the adverse conditions that makes you feel like a superhero. Going to work out in the rain or snow, for example. Or … Continue reading
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