Be Fast, Faster.
It’s the beginning of February and another triathlon season is right around the corner. The holiday’s are over and January has come and gone. Now is the time (if you haven’t already) to start thinking about what races you want to do this year and to begin preparing for a successful triathlon season. You have [...]
It’s the middle of December and I’m in my 8th week back of training since taking 2 weeks completely off. I ran the Cincinnati Turkey trot after only 3.5 weeks of easy training after the 2 weeks off and managed to run a 35:41 10k (5:46/mi) good for 50th overall. I’ve been getting in about [...]
On October 13th, I competed in my final race of the 2012 season, the RJ Corman Duathlon outside of Lexington, Kentucky. The race consisted of a 5k run, 16 mile bike, and another 5k run. Living in Louisville now, I was able to drive to the race the morning of with Amanda. We got to [...]
This past weekend I competed in my 7th consecutive Hy-Vee Triathlon. This is hands down one of my favorite races out there. The race is very well put together and draws a ton of incredible competition from all over the country. There’s some pretty nice prizes for the top 5 overall as well as Mini [...]
A few weekends ago I competed in my 4th American Triple-T Ohio which is comprised of 4 triathlon’s over the course of 3 days. The race starts with a super sprint triathlon Friday night, 2 Olympic distance (run’s are actually slightly longer at 6.55 miles) races on Saturday, and a half-ironman on Sunday. This was [...]
This past weekend I competed in my 5th and final Collegiate Nationals. I traveled to Tuscaloosa on Thursday with the UD Tri Club and went to Olive Garden for dinner with the FSU Tri Team. On Friday I got up and had breakfast, made a quick Publix run, where I met James Haycraft and picked [...]
We’re just a month away from race season! This is the worst time of the year for me. Everything is so close, but still so far away. Racing is just a few weeks away, but there are still plenty of painful workouts before then. The weather is trending in a positive direction, but there are [...]
By Erika Erickson As an athlete, I struggle a lot with finding and maintaining balance in my training. This isn’t so shocking, because I struggle with finding balance also as a grad student, a friend, a daughter, a sibling, a roommate, a significant other, a…well, you get the idea – it’s hard to balance all [...]
Often friends and training partners ask me what products and tools I use for training and recovery, so I thought I would share my list of favorites. These are all tools that I find most essential to training, racing, and recovering (other than my bike, running shoes and swim goggles!) I wanted this list to be [...]
From the time we’re in grade-school until we’re settled in our 20′s – some of us, even in our 30′s – we’re told that setting goals is a key, if not the key, to achieving what we want in life. Some people are better at setting goals than others. That is, they either knowingly or [...]
