28 November 09: Quick Update

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 9 Comments

Some bad luck this week has made me appreciate that I must have been pretty lucky in my last 39 ironmans . . . It turns out that the big 4-0 will have to wait til next year. I have been in bed sick since Thursday night. While I have raced half-sick–with colds and the like–before, but I have never been laid up like this before a race. Yesterday I had a fever and was so nauseous and achy that I couldn’t even sit up in bed, and it hurt to open my eyes. Maiki had to go to the pro meeting and even beg his way into registering for me. But still I convinced myself that this was just a 24-hour bug and I would be all fine by today.… Read More

26 November 09: Thanksgiving in Cozumel

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 3 Comments

Today I am thankful for “Happy Snapper,” a.k.a. my boyfriend, for obsessively recording our every move on camera . . . and making up for the bikini pic to which I subjected you in my last post with one from today!

Today is the third time in 31 years that I have missed my the Person Family Thanksgiving–my family’s Thanksgiving extravaganza. Both my freshman year as a swimmer at the University of Michigan and  my first year in Sutto boot camp, I was not allowed to leave on this day. This year I had to make to difficult decision to race over our family´s big holiday weekend. From what I heard, it seemed like Ironman Cozumel would suit me better than would Ironman Arizona, and at the end… Read More

24 November 09: You Are Invited . . .

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 7 Comments

HILLARY’S 40th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

Join me in celebrating my 40th time across this line . . . This was #1: Ironman Florida, 2001. My little sister sent me this picture today; her email was aptly titled, “Fatty Finish.”

WHEN: Sunday, November 29, 2009, All Day Long!

GIVEN BY: Ironman Cozumel

WHERE: Cozumel, Mexico, or www.ironman.com

**No gifts, please. I will be giving it to myself all day long.

 

23 November 09: Ironman Arizona

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 4 Comments

Two trips to Tempe in three days on top of my last big days of ironman training for the year (Wow, that sounds strange!) left me without time for posting here. But I did enjoy experiencing Ironman Arizona even though I wasn’t racing. Friday I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with my K-Swiss peeps in their shop in the ironman expo and also got to meet tons of awesome athletes who were there for the race, and were getting on the K-Swiss train. Everyone was loving the K-Onas, especially all of the different national flag varieties. It is so cool to see K-Swiss taking over the tri world!

Women’s lead bike approaching–time to check the split! Keeping track of everyone is hard work!

Yesterday, after a morning… Read More

19 November 09: Voices in My Head

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 3 Comments

Tuesday was a treadmill PR day. Coach Muffin assigned the same big brick (bike-run combination) session I had done two weeks ago, and although I had been really pleased with that run, I managed to better it significantly this week. It was a career brick PR.

I had a fair bit of time on the treadmill that day, and in fact the treadmill and I have been spending a lot of quality time together recently. It has me becoming conscious of the patterns in my thinking while I am on there–specifically, the way that I habitually convince myself of things that are not real. This is a technique that I have become accustomed to using on the treadmill in order to trick myself to run harder, and/or to keep running… Read More