Training with a cold or flu – a guide for triathlon training plans while sick

This week I happened to get a particular nasty cold that turned into an upper respiratory infection. I am huge baby once I get the sniffles and being sick not only puts a damper on my training,  but effects our effects my patients as I avoid getting them sick by taking time, which unfortunately means occasionally having to reschedule appointment. For most athletes getting sick raises the...

Planning Your Race Season

It is a new year and a new race season is almost upon us. For the uninitiated, catching the triathlon bug means more than entering a lot of races, it means entering a lot of races by meticulously planning and preparing by doing research and calculations that would make your high school math teacher proud. My first “season” started on a whim really – randomly choosing a...

Swimming

I can honestly say that I love swimming. I always have, I can’t remember a time in my childhood where I wasn’t swimming durring the summers. I don’t know why I didn’t compete in swimming as a sport in school, I would guess it was so much a part of my summer vacations that it didn’t seem like its own sport. Fast forward to about 6 months ago, I honestly couldn’t...

Sitting is Killing You

Chia

Everyone knows about Chia Pets. I have to imagine just about everyone as had one at some point in time, but how many you knew that those seeds in which the chia pet is named is actually a super food? Salvia hispanica, commonly known as Chia, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, and is found in central and southern mexico having been cultivated since the time of the Aztec. I...