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Introducing Coach Carrie Smith

By bethany Energy Lab is very excited to announce that we have a new coach, Coach Carrie Smith! Carrie is returning to coaching after a long break and is excited to apply her years of coaching experience to serve athletes of all levels. Read more about Carrie’s background below: Carrie returns to multisport coaching after taking time off to earn her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and begin work as a physical therapist. She has over six years of coaching experience working with triathletes, runners, and cyclists and has experience teaching cycling skills, running drills, performing metabolic testing, and completed has …

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The Gift of Good Health

I thought I would take a lot of steps back to see what was bothering me. There is still no final verdict, but it seems like generally my liver (dubbed Mr Livvie) does not perform quite as he should and this is separate or related to all the allergies/ chemical sensitivies/ and intolerances I have been experiencing on a daily basis. Some of this stuff started last year when I suddenly because “allergic” to penicillin and Nsaids after a few rounds of abx in a short period of time. After that it seemed like every few months there was some other …

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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 …

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Bethany Rutledge: Should You Ride Inside Year Round?

By bethany When the weather gets sunny and the Atlanta rain is finally gone, many folks are keen to get in as much outdoor riding as possible. The weather has been beautiful this year so it’s been easy to get that one weekly outdoor ride in at a minimum! That said, there are some huge benefits to making sure you’re still including some indoor riding in your routine. Steady pressure on the pedals One of the initial limiters with riders unaccustomed to cycling indoors is, in short, an inability to maintain constant pedaling. When riding outdoors, even with minimal stoplights …

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Kathryn Taylor: Mental Training for Open Water Swimming

By bethany Energy Lab Swim Coach and USAT Southeast Council member Kathryn Taylor talks about overcoming challenges when tackling your first, or next, open water swim. We’ve all been there. Standing at the edge of the water as we wait for our age group to enter the water. No matter how much we try to calm ourselves we feel our heart rate start to rise. Anxiety about finding our space in the swim and the race in general catches up to us in those moments of waiting. As the announcer yells go, and we rush into the water our heart …

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Introducing Coach Tim Myers

By bethany Energy Lab is excited to announce that Coach Tim Myers has joined us! Tim will be coaching athletes one on one and leading Wednesday mornings at Energy Lab! Here is a little more about Tim: Tim is entering his 10th year of endurance sports. He has been an assistant or Head Coach for Atlanta Triathlon Club going on 4 years and a member of the Race Team for 3 years. He is an accomplished triathlete as a four time Ironman 70.3 World Championship Qualifier, three time Ironman All World Athlete and a two time USAT All American. In …

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