running

To compete in a triathlon, you need to be able to do three things: swim, bike, and run. But let's face it, if you hope to have fun on race-day, you need not only to be able to do these things, but to do them reasonably well. This is where training comes in: building endurance and skill, over time.

Day one of the triathlon challenge: decide to do a triathlon. (Hurray!). Day two: stumble over a heap of questions. (Er .....).

How a woman who had always thought she could never be an athlete proved herself wrong

In two months, I will compete in my first triathlon. Flashback eight months: I am a thirty-five-year-old mother of four children, ages nine through two, and after a decade of pregnancies, night feedings, and strolling around town at a toddler's pace, I have only recently started exercising regularly: at a hot yoga studio, two to three times a week.

A recent article in the New York Times asked the question: “What is the single best exercise?” It’s an interesting read, and there are a lot of suggestions. Fortunately, it doesn’t go out and suggest that something like swimming the butterfly or running up stairs or doing repeated burpees are THE best, because the article does qualify that “best” doesn’t always mean best.