Nine Month Checkin
Lots of cool stuff has happened in the last 9th months but it turns out I pigeonholed myself when I made this blog about triathlon, and more specially, me racing triathlon. It turns out there’s a lot more to it than that and there’s often big swathes of time that go by where you don’t really have any racing worth writing about! “You” meaning me of course. For the past few years, I’ve had my share of ups and downs racing. This year started off all down with some weird health issues culminating that had my calling specialists and have been forced to ask on more than one occasion – What does triathlon mean to me outside of my own racing. Is this still worth doing to me if I’m less than I was and there’s no clear solution?
But that’s just racing. A lot of great stuff has happened in the last 9 months since I last wrote, yet none of it having to do with personal performance. In that time, I’ve enjoyed celebrating the firsts and the successes of a great group of athletes new and old at Atlanta Tri Club. Right now we’re just kicking off a year of working with athletes through Time Warner Fit Nation. We’ve made some strides in the USA Triathlon Southeast Regional Council, on which I serve as the technology coordinator. I’ve written a lot of articles for some great publications like Triathlete, Women’s Running, and Training Peaks and enjoyed being creative in that way. I was also honored to contribute to an awesome book by Mishael Porembski called 180 Your Life: From Tragedy to Triumph.
I greatly enjoyed being part of an assisted athlete team with the Kyle Pease Foundation with three great friends and Ryan Whitley, who completed his first half marathon. We had a lot of great fundraisers for Lifeline Animal Project and they celebrated becoming a no kill facility. Just recently, I’ve recently agreed to help out as the coach for the Scott Rigsby Foundation Augusta group and I am fundraising myself for this great event (more about that soon!).
We’ve grown our coaching business at Energy Lab. I was always worried about taking on more than we can handle, but things have really happened organically over the past few years. Not only do I feel blessed to have an amazing group of athletes that I really enjoy as people, we recently also added two of my very dear friends and generally favorite people to the coaching roster, Tim Myers and Carrie Smith.
Personally, I celebrated ten years with my dream guy, and my original baby girl Sadie turned 11. #thisonegoesto11. Bailey, age 8, still acts like “the world’s oldest puppy. ” So, like I said, lots of great stuff, not much in the way of personal performance, which was the original driver and motivation for this blog.
So without rehashing the last 9 months of racing, my hope is that I can pick up where I left off, but expand the scope of things a little bit on here! The cool thing is that I’ve discovered that triathlon still does mean a lot to me whether I’m at my best, worst, or somewhere in between.
