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Diabetes Blog Week: Continuing Connections
I was so good at keeping up with #DBlogWeek until the last day. Technically it’s over but here’s my contribution to the last topic, mainly because I would like to shout out some cool D-bloggers! The...
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Race Report: Brooklyn Half Marathon, 5/16/2015
The Brooklyn Half this year was one of the goofiest races I’ve ever done. I signed up a while back, excited to finally be able to run it after several years in a row of inconvenient scheduling (travel,...
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Ironman Dispatch: Ker-SPLAT
I have christened my Ironman training with a bike crash! Two Saturdays ago, I was riding on Route 9W, the road city cyclists can take from the George Washington Bridge all the way through New York...
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Things I Googled Before & After the Ironman Syracuse 70.3 Triathlon
Before: “Triathlon transition tips” “Change clothes during half Ironman” “what do you wear under a wetsuit” “Syracuse 70.3 race report” “Ironman Syracuse bike course” “Ironman Syracuse bike elevation...
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Race Report: Ironman Syracuse 70.3, 6/21/15 (Or, That Time I Got Pulled Off...
The summer solstice this year brought my very first half Ironman triathlon! This race report was getting too long, so I broke it into two parts. For those of you who can’t stomach even that, here’s the...
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Race Report: Ironman Syracuse 70.3, 6/21/15 (Or, That Time I Got Pulled Off...
Part 2 of the Ironman Syracuse 70.3 race report! Sorry for anyone who’s been hanging on to the thrilling conclusion for the past 2.5 months. Training makes you busy….or a slacker. You can read part 1...
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The Five Stages of Grief for Your Ironman DNF
Denial: [on the bike course] Of course blood sugars oscillating from 336 to 65 to 224 is acceptable! How can I be dehydrated, it’s only 65 degrees right now! I can’t stand the thought of taking in my...
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Ironman (DNF) Dispatch: The Medical Postmortem, and Tips for Beginners
Hello blog friends. That was a bit of a hiatus there, wasn’t it? And I don’t even have the excuse of Ironman training anymore. I’ve been filling my hours not with biking, riding, swimming, or running,...
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And I Think to Myself, “My God, What Have I Done?!”
It’s June 2017, on some beach in Staten Island at the start of the Flat as a Pancake sprint tri. The water is frigid and smells vaguely of gasoline. My blood sugar is 142 less than an hour after eating...
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Ironman Lake Placid 70.3 Race Report, Part 1: Half the Distance, Twice the Fun
I’m so relieved and proud to say that my redemption race was a HUGE success. It was a 70.3, so I’m still not an Ironman. But the months of training paid off in ways I didn’t expect. Here’s part 1 of 2...
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