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dreams in Whistler
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” On Sunday the 24th of July, I raced my first ever Ironman 70.3 in beautiful Whistler, BC. Crossing that finish line was...
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10 things I love about Oz
I returned yesterday from a work/play trip to Australia’s Sunshine Coast. One of the things I love about travel—regardless of frequency or how far I go—is the way it bridges opposites: variety/routine,...
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a Kona tangent
Another Kona is in the books. Kona Kona Kona. It’s a word that means very little to people outside the triathlon bubble. Within it, however, this annual event is sacred. It’s one of the things that...
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a beginner’s guide to rain
Vancouver has just been through the rainiest October on record since 1985. It’s as if the precipitation gods waited 31 years to let their stored up raindrops loose just for me—as if balancing the Jen...
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in short, we run on dynamite
I wake up late in my friend’s guest bedroom, wispy curtains letting in just the right amount of light. Outside, the Marina District comes alive quietly, with its clean streets and narrow, pastel...
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16 in 2016
I like lists. Lists are clean and contained. Lists help organize a complicated world or a head full of tasks and to-dos. Below is a list containing 16 facts about my year. Its surface neatness belies a...
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7 intentions
As an unabashed idealist often plagued by (too-) high expectations, New Year’s is basically a holiday tailor-made for me. Or invented to make me crazy. Every January 1st, the fantasy returns of all the...
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about time
“Tess…started her way up the dark and crooked lane not made for hasty progress; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one-handed clocks sufficiently sub-divided the day.” —Thomas...
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Ironman fantasy league
PNF in 1996. In our latest bodacious blogista blogalicious challenge, we decided on a (not-so) Secret Santa style question series. Liz posed the following question to me: “Who would you like to see...
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rider of bikes
For our final assignment, team Blog Squad decided to go back to the collection of questions we used for our most recent round of posts. No assignments this time—we decided to pick our favorite and roll...
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