26 June 08: Upcoming Adventures

Posted on 26. Jun, 2008 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 1 Comment

I just wanted to check in quickly and let you know about some fun new challenges that I’ve decided to undertake this summer. Training in Switzerland continues to go really well. Today is one of those days when I “can hardly get out of my own road,” as my coach would say; in other words, I am pretty much dysfunctional, and my legs have gone on strike. It made for an exceptionally painful day, but I know that this is all part of the game and that if I don’t have these days every once in awhile, I’m not pushing the limits in my training . . . So like I said, I am very pleased with how things are coming along here. Yesterday my coach… Read More

16 June 08: Birthday Weekend in Leysin

Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 1 Comment

Last Friday, I celebrated the dreaded 3-0 . . . Thanks to my coach and teammates, however, I was able to give it to myself to the extent that I didn’t have time or energy to be sad about no longer being a twenty-something. In fact, our two days of celebrations here in Leysin were so much fun that I might go so far as to deem my thirtieth my “best birthday ever.”

We have a tradition in our squad called, “the birthday set.”  For more detail, you can read last month’s article on the Splits59 website: www.splits59.com. In short, this workout is a special swim session that we do to honor the birthdays of lucky squad members. It is a 10,000-meter… Read More

4 June 08: Ironman Brasil

Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 3 Comments

Last week I had the privilege of returning for the third time to one of my favorite races: Ironman Brasil in Florianopolis (a.k.a. “Floripa”). Brasil was my fourth ironman of 2008, and as always, it provided me with some valuable experience, and plenty of fun along the way.

One of the most important things that I’ve learned in ironman racing is to expect the unexpected, and be prepared to deal with it. My race in Floripa took a course that was virtually entirely the opposite of the way I expected it to play out, but because I have learned this lesson many times over, I am happy to say that it hardly fazed me. Speaking of being off course, swimming this… Read More