Why??? That is a question I have asked myself over and over this past year. Why am I doing this? Why am I trying to push myself through injury? Why is my body not responding like I want it to? I am a bit too excited to begin my taper leading up to the upcoming Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Vegas. - 2 weeks, I keep telling myself... I can make it 2 more weeks. Of course for me, it seems that much of the summer training has been a bit of a taper in one discipline or another. 1st, my calf starting tightening up in the Spring just before the Mountain Madness 1/2 Iron distance tri, then, my hip began giving me painful fits after a self-driven session of yoga (yoga, is a wonderfully good healer for the body if done correctly... apparently, I did not do it correctly and ended up straining my psoas and hip adductor). Since running and biking aggravated those injuries, I focused on swimming in the pool and lake. As luck would have it, something got in my ear and began "gro
Teaching my Angel about our world while she is teaching me how to fly.