On The Water

After almost two years of just swimming and biking, I started running again at the end of February, 2015. I had then finished my physical therapy program that took up nearly 8 months and I could run pain free the majority of the times. I went on to win the SouthEast Duathlon Regional Championships in April and I even started putting in the mix a couple of local off-road triathlon races - just to see where I was at - and everything seemed to be rolling as planned. I even threw in some interval sessions and, towards the end of the first half of the season, I was hoping to race pain free at the Xterra off-road SE regionals. Although I had not been training to perform at that race, I knew that if I would just run without any pain in my abdominal muscles (see New 2015 season - racing pain free ) , I had a chance to podium. The first two women qualify for the Xterra Worlds, the rest - rolling down to 18 - get a ticket to the ITU off-road Worlds. There was no real pressure, but if podium ha