Welcome back! I am still training for Ironman St. George 70.3. It has been a month since I updated how training, because training for a triathlon is keeping me pretty busy! Many people have asked me if training for a 70.3 is harder than training for a marathon. As of right now, I would say training for a 70.3 is not harder, BUT is more time intensive. Training for a triathlon requires more dedicated hours of training since there are three sports to focus on. There is als

You can listen to this post on your favorite podcast player by clicking the link below: https://anchor.fm/margsandmarathons/episodes/Ironman-St--George-70-3-Training-Update---Overcoming-a-bad-training-week-eqdqhi Thank you for stopping by to check in on my training for Ironman St. George 70.3. Race day is less than 11 weeks away and I have mixed feelings about my progress in training so far. In some ways I feel like I have come so far; I have bought a bike, learned to clip

You can listen to this post via podcast by clicking the link here: https://anchor.fm/margsandmarathons/episodes/Zwift-Resources-If-You-Know-Virtually-Nothing-about-Cycling-epd5f9 Hello and welcome back! I'm trying something new this week. I wanted to consistently document my triathlon training, but since I started to train for Ironman St. George 70.3 my time has become an even more precious commodity. So instead of writing a blog post each week, I thought I would try an au

I hope your 2021 has started off on a positive note and hopefully you have already made progress toward your goals for the year. In 2020, my training goals were focused on improving my marathon time. I loved the focus that goal gave me in 2020 and I enjoyed my training all year. At the start of 2020, my personal best time in the marathon was a 3:24. I broke 3 hours in March of 2020 at the Los Angeles Marathon and I again improved my time in October 2020 to 2:53 in a very s