I finally have a chance to report in from plane flight number two of four en route from San Antonio to Florianopolis after a whirlwind trip for SMASH Ladies’ Night and some TeamHPB bonding. I love getting to see my athletes’ stomping grounds and meeting "their people”. This week I got to swim with Dawn’s lovely masters swim crew and Coach Susan at the JCC, check out a couple of her running loops, and even do some TT efforts on her bike TT route. I appreciate so much the tri and swim communities of San Antonio being so welcoming and I can’t wait to return.
That’s super SMASH ambassador and TeamHPBer Kona Dawn (doing our intros on Ladies’ Night), a San Antonio local. She and Jimmy Britton at Britton’s Bicycles helped us to organize an incredible event at the shop on Monday night.
I have been pinching myself all week because I remember so clearly, one year ago this week, I was in the airport on my way to Ironman Brasil when my incredibly talented business partner Michele and I decided to go for it—our dream of starting our own tri/ multisport apparel company for women. It was this convo after three years of talking during which we committed to this project. So it was pretty amazing to be in San Antonio exactly one year later, in person with the ladies who have been our biggest supporters since day one.
I loved seeing old friends and meeting new ones—putting faces to the names on some of the orders we have seen come through our system. Even better was being able to celebrate Ironman Texas with the irongals and guys, like the newly-minted Aixa (on left!) . . .
and Kris, on the right here—with Shelly, one of our fave Tucson campers, who will have something else to celebrate come November! 
And guess what arrived in stock yesterday and quickly disappeared (if you want a tri kit now you may want to check for your size like this very minute—otherwise check back in late June/ early July) . . . Our sickest kit yet if I do say so myself! I was so involved in trying to ship all the orders out and not miss my plane that I didn’t even get to take any pics but hopefully we will have some soon—it is even better in person.
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