Portland to Portland

Trek Travel Portland to Portland ride from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. Taking place August, 2025.

Training Update – March 17-23, 2025

This was the first week in some time where I have had a day off from training. Right now, I train 7 days a week – and most of those days have two training sessions with the exception of one or two but they tend to have one longer session. […]

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Training Update – March 10-16, 2025

This past week was a good mix of swim/bike/run and strength. It was a decent week overall given that every discipline was up week over week in terms of time. My legs felt a little heavy by the time Friday rolled around and my swim was less than spectacular, but […]

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The rupture

In June of 2023 I had a job that had me traveling extensively through the summer. I made my first trip ever to Brazil and met up with a colleague from Australia and we were working together with the team there for roughly almost a week. I had finished my […]

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Training Update – March 3-9, 2025

Have decided that I am going to do weekly updates on the training effort for the Trek Portland to Portland ride. Summarizing the most recent week of training seemed the most feasible, appropriate and least boring way to share process. There may be an odd workout here and there that […]

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Intentionality in training

I recently finished ‘Grit’ by Angela Duckworth. I have been listening to a series of audible books given the amount of time I’m spending on the treadmill and on my bike. Both lend themselves to committing time to listening to… something. Music has become boring at times. Podcasts and Audible […]

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Readying the mind and body

Preparing yourself for a 3800-mile bike ride across the country takes time, effort and patience. Not only is it a physical readiness, but also requires a mental readiness. My ride is taking place in August, 2025 — a mere 9 months from now. In reality, I started my preparation in September of 2024 upon […]

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Doing epic… stuff.

The title should have said ‘shit’, but not sure that would have flown. But it really is epic shit. What is ‘it’? In May of 2024, while surfing the interwebs looking for a leisurely cycling trip on which my husband and I could embark together — he’s not a cyclist, and I’m […]

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