Better to be safe than sorry!!! GREAT deal on ROADID

Here is the link to your new ROAD ID!!! Everyone needs one and they have a ton of options!!! You don't want to be somewhere and need it....

A great stocking stuffer for your loved ones too!!!!

Team CHALLENGE 2015

Today is the last day to apply for the 2015 TEAM CHALLENGE!!!

Heres the link.....

Team CHALLENGE 2015

You receive FREE entry to all your races and all these goodies....

NORMATEC RECOVERY BOOTS

Don't miss out on NormaTec's exclusive Holiday Sale, complete with your very own NormaTec Holiday Stocking to hang by the fire! (While supplies last.) 

NormaTec is the gift that keeps on giving. Back up training days with fresh legs and faster recovery to crush your PR in 2015. Order now at www.NormaTecRecovery.com or speak with an Athlete Specialist at (866) 658-5896.

I use these daily and paid full price!!! Absolutely love these boots!!! If you have been on the fence you need to order these now!!!

Trust me you will thank me!!!

Munson MTB fun

What a beautiful day!!! We were able to go out into the woods with our youngest son!! He is finally able to ride a big boy bike!! 

I was able to test out my new Betty Designs Cycling Kit! Its the version made for KONA!! I absolutely love it! So comfy and really really attractive looking instead of the boring unisex versions of most other kits. I got the bib shorts and cycling jersey! 

As we were loading the bike I played around with my phone and took a picture of the reflection on the truck!!! Man I look like I have a booty!! haha

TRX strength and Recovery

I had a great strength training session at Sweat Therapy with a personal trainer!We warmed up on the rower and then began the TRX torture.....the burn feels so good. It really is such a great change up from the monotonous tri training....

Had a wonderful breakfast date with my husband post workout and came home and enjoyed my Normatec Recovery Boots!!!

Happy Friday y'all!!!

Off road adrenaline junkies

#newton #boco #hellobetter 

Love my new newtons!!!! Enjoying #offseason so much!!! Last night dirt riding at night and new trail shoes today! 

Go get yours local or at www.newton.com

Mountain Bike Time

I ordered this for myself last year and loved it!!! Just ordered set again for my husband!!! We love night riding to much!!!! It really doesn't get better than flying thru the woods at night with your friends!!!!

I didn't find this combo easily on the website so I am going to share the link!!!!

Magic Shine USA MTB combo lights

Control button on the Mac

I just recently updated the OS on my Mac. In doing so I was no longer able use the ANT agent to upload my workouts to training peaks. This frustrated me so bad!!!

So to help all of you to have stress free days!!! When opening the Training Peaks Grey device agent button make sure you  CONTROL + click icon. This will allow you to bypass the security settings and open the link so you can upload your data with ease!!!

Tri Bike Transport

We used tri bike transport to get our bikes out to Idaho!!! What a fantastic service!!!

We plan on using them again for our next IM!!!



I am calling and reserving our rates for next year today!! I think you should too!!!!
Race smart!!! ;-))))

Delicious bacon and egg breakfast on the go

This is my favorite busy mom morning breakfast!! I can wake up about 40 min before time to go. Manage to make this is about 5 minutes and then can focus on getting everyone going, make lunches, and get myself ready to taxi to school.

Ingredients:

6 eggs brown

1 cup shredded mexican 4 cheese

6 strips of applewood bacon

Directions:

wrap bacon around outer edge of inner muffin pan

crack 6 eggs in bowl, mix and add chesse and mix

pour about 1/4 cup into each muffin tin about 1/3 way to top.

Place on middle rack in oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Easy clean up and taste wonderful!! 

#carbfreedoesnthavetobehard

#cleaneating

Kates Real Food

I have fallen in love with these natural bars!!! Packed with calories they are perfect to eat pre race or long workout! Easy to grab and go!!!

All flavors are amazing!!! You will Thank me!!!

http://store.katesrealfood.com

My personal favorite!!!

Stash Bar: Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate with Flax & Hemp

Kate’s Stash Bar is real food at it’s finest. With only 8 simple ingredients, this nutty flavored bar will keep you fueled and satisfied for hours. The natural sugars and protein provide sustained energy, while the amino acids from the hemp seeds help your body utilize it. The flax seeds give you an added boost of omega 3 and antioxidants.  Plus, the taste can’t be beat!

INGREDIENTS:  Organic oats, Organic honey, Organic peanut butter (organically grown dry roasted peanuts, salt), Organic dark chocolate (organic evaporated cane juice sugar, organic chocolate liquor, organic cocoa butter, organic soy lecithin, organic vanilla), rice nuggets (rice flour, rice bran, raisin juice concentrate, honey, salt), Organic flax seeds, Organic hemp seeds, sea salt.

30-40 recovery run

A good friend of mine was out of town and I was out checking on her 4 legged friends. So what a better way to knock 2 things out at the same time. I did my recovery run (30-40 min easy) without a watch and just enjoyed new scenery and new lil friends! 

Ironman Florida Race package

Click here to register!!!
Don't wait until its to late!!!

Ironman Florida and Ironman 70.3 Augusta 2015

Rose City Tri Club

Now is the time when kits are reordered for the next season. It's also a time to go around and ask buisinesses if they would like to buy spots on the kits! Yes we use your products and promote it all via social media and hopefully spread the word around for you. Recently my close friend and Sweat Therapy Owner said "yes" to sponsoring a spot! I am so excited to have the best of both worlds colliding. I get to advertise a fitness boutique that I love while getting a great workout with my friends!!! Oh and looking cute while doing it!!!! So if you know of anyone else that would love to have a limited spot on our kits please feel free to send me a message and I will get you in touch with the powers that be!!!! 

Team 2015 applications are almost due!

Rev3 team application is due nov 15! 

http://rev3tri.com/news/team-rev3-triathlon-2015-now-accepting-applications/

Betty Designs due October 31!

Are you a Betty??? The original end date was oct 15. I think it was around the same time as Kona so for whatever reason they extended! So get your application in....

http://www.bettydesigns.com/pages/are-you-a-betty

Team SOAS is also ending soon. Oct 31 or Nov 1 is your deadline! So take a minute and fill out those applications for the team that is calling your name!

http://www.teamsoasracing.com/

Another women's team is Team Coeursports! Deadline is nov 30,2014

http://www.coeursports.com/pages/2015-call-for-athletes

Big Sexy Racing Team: several close friends of mine for on this team in 2014. It was really neat walking around with Melissa in Idaho at the Ironman and witnessing the vendors acknowledge a team member and discounts are there! It's good to know people! There's a nice package listed with this application noted up front! They also sell wine!

http://bigsexyracing.net/?p=1350

Powerbar Team Elite link:

http://www.powerbar.com/Athlete/apply

snapple Tri team is FREE and is always full of wonderful advice and has cool kits! I order my Osmo from the discount you get from being a memeber of the Tri club! 

http://snappletriteam.com/

If you know of anything or any other Tri teams to add to the list! Please comment and I will add it on here so we can keep things all together! Happy application time!!! 

shiv sister Leisa

Miami 70.3 Ironman Race Report

We stayed at the host hotel Intercontinental Miami. Excellent location. Walking distance (5 minutes tops) to Ironman Village! We arrived on Friday night before Sunday race. Got checked in and walked around. Very close to Bayside and tons of food options. It was rainy and overcast. To note: there are no special areas for All World Athletes. Nothing mentions it at all. If you are used to this added bonus like we are...Dont get excited....

Saturday Morning was beautiful! Perfect Weather
 

we walked around the expo and got a little bit of the nervous energy out! Now this is where things got a little bothersome. The hotel was wonderful the first night. Now Saturday more people were arriving and the elevators were no longer working well. We tried to get from our room on the 16th floor to go to expo for 45 minutes. They stated its part of being in a full hotel. Never ever have I had to wait at any hotel for an elevator at any other Ironman event like this. It was beyond ridiculous!

Race Morning....

Waters look calm. Swim waves going.....The pros are looking to be way off course post the second turn.....hmmm why is that....well I would soon find out.....The current under the water was so strong you were literally swimming in place with very little movement. It was wild. I have completed several 70.3 distances in all types of waters.....this was the most unsettling panic filled swim I have ever done. I could only tell myself just make it to the first turn buoy and it has to get easier.........Phew I made it.....the current out towards second buoy was tolerable. normal swim along the edge of the bay. But oh wait what is that.....Oh snap its a jelly fish...ouch that hurt.... Oh and I forgot to mention that I also have bronchitis....So its pretty intolerable conditions having to swim harder and try to breathe and not panic with everyone thrashing and grabbing you....Now I make it to the 2nd turn buoy.....It has to be a challenge bc the pros swung so wide.....Remember what hubby said just go to the yacht....

I sighted the ginormous yacht that was sitting outside the hotel bc it was a direct line to where I needed to go....This worked but you had to site about every 3 strokes or you would get pushed pretty far off course......Another jellyfish.....Ok finally make it to turn 3....I am getting killed I felt like I am at 48 minutes....Ok a little slower then usual but i don't feel well and that first 200 was awful.....Little did I know I was turning right back into it....Once again I was not moving.....I kicked as hard as I ever have kicked...Please just let me get to the dock so I can get out.....Now people were acting wild again...Finally about 15 min later I made it to the dock which is a stair way.....so everyone is pushing to get out...Not fun.....Most of all it was also NO WETSUIT!!! I get out of the water and know I am tired and a little disoriented. I take my top speed suit down and head to my bike. Oh no.....my tummy is flipping...please fine a trash can so not to embarrass myself....Ok not to bad just a little throw up.....I find my bike. get all set up and head out towards transition....duh...I forgot to take off my speed suit...had to go back to my spot and take everything back off and start all over.....finally lets go ride....

Swim time 1:04:38 (the worst time I have ever had)

Now the fun part. I get to see one of my team mates that happened to be in Miami....She yelled my name and it made me feel so happy I wanted to cry!! 

Thru the town was tricky. There were potholes, switchbacks, railroad tracks, no passing zones, bridges and bottles everywhere before you got out on the straight away. But the straight areas were not easy on the way out....Filled with headwinds and no shade whatsoever. All I could hope was to make it to the turnaround and get a nice tailwind. Which happened. YEAH!!! so the ride back into town was nice. Just sit down in aero and go...My HR monitor did not work so I went off RPE and maintained my cadence at 90 regardless of my speed.

Bike 3:11:57 for a 17.3 mph avg (not bad for being sick)

I jumped off the bike and went out on the run!!! I have never felt better physically....My nutrition was on point. My only problem was my nagging cough and not breathing well...It was hot but my arm coolers kept me perfectly regulated the whole time. I also was not able to go off my HR bc my monitor did not work. I had to be extra cautious bc I was covered in salt already and knew the run was fully exposed and I normally fall apart on run. 

I used my run 4:30 and walk 0:30 plan and it worked perfectly. 

I was able to finish feeling nice and strong. The volunteers were great and the water stops were at the right spaces. The bridge was challenging but still fun! The water was amazing to look which is poetic bc it had such hidden challenges as well. All in all this 70.3 didn't fail to be fun and still have a great challenge to it. 

Run 2:39:47 ( I stopped to hug my children, talk to my best friend and husband when I saw them and felt great---all in all the best portion of this event was the run which usually is my worst)

Although for my husband the bike became a different story. Someone was drafting him (which there was unfortunately a lot of) and hit his back tire and flipped him in the first 5 miles. It fractured his frame and destroyed his disc. His bike is totaled. He was able to finish the ride and still had an extremely good bike time despite stopping several times and fixing his bike with duct tape. He sustained a fractured knee cap, pulmonary contusions, and severe road rash. 

To top of that crash....We walked back to the hotel...the elevators not working well. tired and exhausted. Looked to the front and our truck was parked out front....Valet had wrecked my brand new truck and thought they would wait until we were departing to let me know. So my weekend in Miami was not that fun. The race itself was well run. A nice course but watch out for the other crazies that take it far to seriously.....The hotel is very close. It is nice. But I would never go back bc of the elevator issues and wrecking my truck!!! 

Hope you enjoy my race report!!! 

Organic Sea Salt anyone?????? 

#badassisbeautiful #bettydesigns #shiv #iamspecialized #rudy #sidi #osmo #openroadbicycles

St Marks Trail ride

Taking the Shivs out on a cool morning!!!

Level 3 USA Cycling Coach!!!

I love always educating myself and going above and beyond. Cant wait to tackle this new adventure...Love that my husband and kids are being my practice people so far! 

3 gap

Finally made it to the top of Wolf pen gap!!!

The view from the top of Woody gap was amazing. Pictures do not do it justice!

5620 feet of climbing!! Phew my quads were swollen! Had an amazing time and my husband never left my side. Best day ever!!!!

Ebates

Love using this Ebates link to be able to get all the things I need at home and get a little cash back.

I seem to be time crunched most of the time and if I don't have to go out and make the trek to the mall

can get things delivered to home (usually for free) I am all about it....

There are tons of ways to save money here and there. I can order a lot of my biking and running gear

from REI....Amazon has tons of great deals and usually takes the guess work out of shopping around.

For instance today some of the bike shops I need to go to are not obtainable....later this week I won't

think about it....so I can order from my house and it will be here in a couple days!!

Perfect!!! Anyways I love passing on and sharing great finds.....It is only work to go to ebates first

before you go to the website you are looking for, other than that...super easy....