Be Fast, Faster.
I decided to drive up to Columbia, Maryland for the Rev3 Half-Full Race benefitting the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults the first weekend of October. It would be my first race starting in the professional wave of women, but it was more importantly my first race a disappointing DNF in Las Vegas at the 70.3 World [...]
I have come to this race report over and over again … at times disappointed, angry, overwhelmed, complacent, dreading it, etc … but it’s amazing what about two weeks can do to your perspective. So I started writing down a few thoughts as I was sitting on the plane out to Las Vegas … amidst [...]
I know, I know … racing at altitude when you don’t live there year-around is … well … hard (understatement). But I planned to do another half-ironman before the 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas, and Boulder 70.3 was the right timing … AND (most importantly) I just so happened to have a friend who [...]
From our first post in this series, it’s clear that the decision to “go pro” isn’t as straight forward as one might think. Like the ubiquitous life traveler in Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Less Traveled, I have found myself standing at a crossroads and contemplating a major decision. “Long I [have] stood” indeed (at [...]
Think as a triathlete (maybe even a pretty good one) that you are good at time trialing … If I were more twitter savvy, I might have posted something like : #wellithoughtiwasfast #humbling #royalbuttkicking #hardestthingihaveeverdoneonabike #mostpainfulthingihaveeverdoneonabike and on and on … The USA Cycling Elite, U23, Juniors and Paralympic Road National Championships were held in [...]
Well it’s the eve of race #3 for the season (Gulf Coast Triathlon), and I realize I have not taken time to write about race #2 yet (confession … race #3 is in the books now too… race report coming). Yikes : / I promise to try to get better (read: more prompt) with my [...]
Okay, so I’ve been racing of some sort now for 15+ years (middle school, high school, college, medical school), and this is the first attempt from yours truly at that thing we call a ‘race report.’ Part of me sees the task of recounting a race as both a little overwhelming and at the same [...]
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 [...]
