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- Super snack
- How Can I be expected to...
- Never Too Late
- Breathe
- Another Plunge Photo
- The Polar Plunge ... In Pictures
- Home, Sweet Home...For February!
- Taking the Plunge...
- Polar Plunge 2010
- Amateur Versus Pro
- Home Sweet Home...for February, at least
- Mo Mo
- My Running Buddy
- Hope Springs Eternal
- As Time Goes By
- It's a 2 post kind of day...
- The Cleanse - Day 2
- And so it begins...
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- Cross, of course!
- Guess what's for Channukah?
- Holiday Behavior
- NEW!
- Ani!
- Dance all night
- I like to Oat, Oat, Oat.
- Photos!
- Ironman Florida
- Hip Hip Hooray!
- HOME!
- It's almost time...
- Looks like I'm not the only one that dislikes most birds
- Getting my OM on pre race
- I found a really big monkey
- Home Sweet Home
- I get by with a little help from my friends
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- Welcome Capo! Thanks, Cannondale!
- Atonement
- Walkin' the Walk
- Check it out! Goodies from my girl Tracy
- Momma mouse
- My pumpkin patch
- Tired Pony
- Happy Birthday, Grandma and L'Shanah Tovah!
- Entertainment Break
- Taking a break from the boxes
- Go...and then Go Some More
- Rest In Peace
- New Beginnings
- Eating the 'Humble Pie'
- More tests
- Race site, post cleanup
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- Newest member of the family - more home improvements
- When Life Gives you Lyme(s), make... Margaritas?
- Goal list
- Wicked
- Fun in the Sun!
- Today's hilarity - luna calls to the noon whistle (and anytime the fire whistle goes off)
- Oh Happy Day
- Perfect evening for dinner on my roof!
- One Beastie I Be
- Round 2 man, I must be training again, looking tired but Patagonia makes everything better!!
- Happy feet - thanks Patagonia
- Today's YAY moment
- We're captive on a Carousel of Time.
- Fresh from the yard!
- The Return of Optimism
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- Morning joy
- Home improvements
- The Space Between
- Another update, and understanding better what the heck is going on.
- Quick update
- Lap 1 of the Bike
- On the Bike
- The moat important line of the day...bathroom.
- Lake Placid Ironman Live Coverage
- I NEED one of these stickers
- On the road again. Lake Placid trip
- Goodbye, dear friend.
- Pre run
- Dikran rocking some new Cannondale gear
- Recover, Recover, Recover
- Feelin' Groovy
- Welcome back.
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- Confidence
- Cutey field mouse I moved out of the road - didn't snap any pics of the turtles that I helped on their great migration
- Yay dirt road riding!
- Waterfall by the Indian reservation
- Old granite state line marker on a back road by the covered bridge
- Waterfall and water wheel - more scenes from a long ride
- Pics from a long ride - a camel in ny state at Noah's Arc Farm
- Scenes from a long run
- Lake Waramaug Tri and Housy Hills Road Race (CT Cycling State Championships)
- Forget 'afternoon delight', I get mine in the morning!
- Girl, Interrupted
- Posting - no more "courage.com"
- Crazy Town
- So fast!!
- Delivery
- What do you do when you're not training?
- Benchmarks
- Ready for battle!
- "Dance while you Can"
- Here Comes The Bride
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- Just a few goodies that arrived today from my sponsor, Bear Naked yay!
- Happy Birthday Love!
- Re-Arrange
- Keeping the Balance
- Memorial Day
- A Sunday Ride
- Not a bird fan
- Words to Live By
- La Alma de mi Madre
- Thoughts and Prayers
- Welcome to my office
- Calendar
- Bigger Fish to Fry
- Just one of the glorious inhabitants of St Croix!
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- On the road again.
- Packing and odds and ends
- I Hate Cancer
- Over the Moon
- Packing awards
- Some light reading
- Keep on Keepin' on
- Packing race bags
- The reward for another long run and recovery ride completed...ice bath!
- The Adventure Continues
- Welcome!
- Monday Musings
- Triple-Threat Tuesday
- Got to keep on Movin'
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- Post- race stretching
- ART
- Pictures from Sunday!
- Inspiration
- Weekend Update - only not as funny as SNL
- All I have to say
- Another Sunday another
- The run must have been hard
- Just Because It Looks Fun!
- Pictures - Bethel week 1
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- Cool Beans
- Involuntary Naps
- Dinner
- Carolina on my mind
- 10 For Sunday
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- Home, Sweet, Home
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- Where in the World?
- Time Zone Craziness
- It's a Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood
- Tired Pony
- The Adventure Continues
- "Make New Friends, but Keep the Old...."
- Confidence - it doesn't just come from training
- Happy Birthday, Joe!!
- Pictures to Please!
- Day is Done
- Every Day is Friday
- Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Stars
- Some advice for you, even though you weren't asking.
- Pictures!
- Food Centric
- Mountain Song
- "I ride my
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- Back on Solid Ground
- 22 days
- Packing
- Keep on Keepin' on
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- Life on the Farm
- Tri-Divas and Spinathon Magic
- One Day at a Time
- To Twitter or Not
- Moto Show Pics!
- 30 Feels Tropical (and other ways to tell you are from New England)
- Winter Camping
- Body Fat (such an alluring subject)
- Dog is my copilot
- And on Monday, she rested
- Another dinner masterpiece
- There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate gear
- Positivity
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- Monday Musings
- Making Resolutions all Year Long
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- Let it snow
- It's almost New Years
- Skype, Webcams and other technological fun
- Yes, I am supposed to be training (and blogging)
- On the road again
- Merry Christmas
- Luna in the snow
- SNOW!!!!
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- The Holidays
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- Pedal On
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- A legend leaves
- Espana!
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- Me and my buddy
- Pure Sweet Hell
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- Update - everything is ok
- Thoughts and prayers
- Still beaming after Franti
- Oh happy day!
- Daily dose of cute
- Power to the peaceful
- Day is Dawning
- All I can see is Red
- Snuggle time
- Getting back on the healthy eating train.
- It's my race and I'll hawk if I want to, hawk if I want to
- Because Michael Asked Me To
- Your daily dose of gross
- One for the morning.
- One for the morning.
- It's you know who!
- So this is....
- Rise and Shine
- Where I lay me down to rest
- The Off Season - part I
- Oh Happy Day!
- Homemade apple pie
- On our way to vote.
- Proof!
- We've only just begun
- Continuing the tradition with the victory mug
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- Good night and good luck
- Keep it calssy panama city
- And then we got a bonus
- Waffle house - an experiment in yum!
- Wake up call
- I'm leaving on a jet plane....again.
- Shout out
- Swimmy Time
- Fun in the sun
- Approved!
- Ch ch changes
- Burn, baby burn
- Going back to Boston
- Boston fun
- How to lose a day in 2 days.
- Good Bye, Farewell, Afeitasen (dear lord i have no clue how to spell that), so long!
- Somewhere to lay down my weary head
- Adventuring!
- Arts and crafts
- Another huge thank you
- The Best is Yet To Come
- Coolest, hardest day of my life
- The long and winding road
- Leiahi - The Ring of Fire
- Make yourself comfortable...
- And all of a sudden it's real. # 1802 and everything is orange...sweet!
- And the troops come in
- It's 3 AM, I must be lonely (or jet lagged)
- I could get used to this...
- Kona is home...for the next 2 weeks. I landed safely with bike and luggage. Condo is amazing and I saw and practically fell over 4 giant sea turtles - just awesome. Pair that with all the top pro sitings (at my condo!!) And it makes for one great day!
- People watching - ny to la, la to kona...
- My boys
- I just can't wait until tomorrow to show you these:
- Because Orange is my FAVORITE color
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TGIF
Posted by mandy on October 2nd, 2009Wow, how'd that happen? All of a sudden, another week has gone by! It's been a busy one - in the middle of a BIG training block ending this weekend with a race - FINALLY! I am determined to kick this mono in the arse! Yea, I keep waking up from involuntary naps - in parking lots at the super market, working in my kitchen and so on, but the good news is that I'm getting in my training and it's going well.
Last night, I was swimming on a base pace of 1:25 and doing my speed sets on a 1:10-1:15 pace - yeeehaw! Coach Eric and I have backed off the swimming a lot this year. In the scheme of things, I was looking to improve my bike and run even more. Yea, I could swim 5x a week, but we've found swimming 2-3 times a week has kept me at a steady level, with maybe a bit of speed loss, but I'm not worrying about it.
The sun is finally shining, I'm getting to race and I will be 25 next week - Turnin' the tides, y'all!
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