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April

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My Vegan Experiment

Note: As posted at athleta.com… Calling All Vegan or Vegan-Curious! If you are vegan, I’d love to hear from you. Tell me why a plant based diet works for you. If you are vegan-curious, or over 50, like me, I think you’ll be interested in my vegan experiment. Before I share what I’m up to nutritionally I’ll give you some background on my starting place, experience as an omnivore and why I’m currently checking out a vegan way of eating. As a lifetime athlete and coach seeking to feel some big energy as much as possible in my waking hours (and support others in this as well), I’ve done a lot of research on nutrition; nutrition for life, and nutrition [...]

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Category: Nutrition Training/Racing

08

April

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The Big Scary Test

REMINDER!: This year I am blogging on Athleta.com website and will be sharing the same blogs I offer Athleta to this blog site. Enjoy! – Terri In my last post, Part 2, we were left working with word imagery while prepping to head to Kona for the big scary test at the Ironman World Championship. Check list en route to Kona: Word cues and affirmations solidly in place? Check. Fit as I can be given minimal land running? Check. Stifling heat and unrelenting winds on the Kona Coast? Check. Huge unknown hanging over my head as to how this race will play out!? Check! Even though I was completely unsure how my injured leg would play out on race day, as [...]

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Category: Racing/Reflection

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February

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Brain Function and the Bonk

Brain Function and the Bonk (guest post by Terri Schneider on KonaKase.com) Posted: February 21, 2013 on KonaKase.com Have you ever felt sleepy a few hours or more into an event or training? Mentally and physically out of sorts? Lethargic? Or, have you slipped into a really bad mood during an event and subsequently spent some solid time bashing your abilities as an athlete or perhaps why you as a human exist on this planet at all? If you answer yes to any of these, there is a good chance you have been on the edge of or in the throes of bonking. Bonking is general fatigue resulting from muscle glycogen depletion. When your stores are severely threatened, your brain function can [...]

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Category: Nutrition Training/Racing

30

January

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New Years Resolutions

Embrace Your Best You by Forgetting About New Year’s Resolutions! Note: For 2013 I will be blogging on the Athleta Chi site and sharing those posts here as well. Either spot is excellent but on the Athleta site you can shop after you are done reading. Efficient . A New Year’s resolution (NYR) is generally viewed as an advantageous commitment, goal, or habit change that we embark on at the start of a new year. Our chosen change up can be considered a one-time new beginning or an opportunity to say goodbye to a habit that isn’t serving us. We also tend to view the NYR as something ‘special,’ that perhaps we can’t or won’t tackle unless an occasion like the [...]

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Category: Adventure

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December

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13 Thoughts I’ll Bring into 2013

I used to dislike getting the “this is what we’ve been up to this past year” letters in Christmas cards. Not because I didn’t want to hear what people are up to, I do, but more so because they all seemed to focus on peoples kids rather than what was in the thoughts of the person actually sending the card. For reasons I completely get, the focus seems skewed. If a good friend is sending me a ‘year in review’ letter, I want to hear whats up with the friend specifically. How is he/she doing? What are their current challenges and joys. This is such an excellent platform to learn from each other and connect. So when I send out [...]

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Category: Adventure

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December

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Bhutan Comes to America – A Few Post Trip Thoughts

I tend to formulate an idea/adventure internally, then when I’m ready to entertain moving it forward I’ll verbalize it in some fashion. Sometimes I sort out what I’m getting myself into before I verbalize, sometimes not. But the speaking part is the declaration for me and sets me in motion. When I asked Karma and Kinzang if they were interested in coming to America, while I was in Bhutan this past summer, I had no idea of the arduous task I’d take on to get them here. Usually, the more difficult the challenge the more I dig my heals in, continually working to prove that as humans we can accomplish almost anything we set out to do if we want [...]

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Category: Adventure/Reflection