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Bike basics - tri vs road

**Tracy is a guest blogger for SilvermanOrBust.com. Tracy has a long background in fitness and has raced numerous Triathlons among other events. She is also a physical therapist completing a graduate degree. Tracy is going into her second year as a pro-triathlete. **

For a road triathlon such as Silverman, there are two main [...]

Metabolic Testing

This past weekend, a small group of us got together to do a Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) test. Jared and Sam of MetaTest in Las Vegas came out to do this test for us and consult with us on the value of this information.

The metabolic test starts with a little preparation before [...]

Soreness

I climbed Turtlehead Peak in Red Rock with a friend – LAST Friday and am only starting to feel a little relief from the soreness today. It was the first time I climbed Turtlehead. I’d often heard people talking about how difficult it can be with loose rock and talus toward the top of [...]

Racing can be motivation

**Tracy is a guest blogger for SilvermanOrBust.com. Tracy has a long background in fitness and has raced numerous Triathlons among other events. She is also a physical therapist completing a graduate degree. Tracy is going into her second year as a pro-triathlete. **

I’ve been out of touch for a while. Out riding my [...]

Train for a Cause

I just discovered among my Facebook friends that you can support some great causes simply by logging your training! I didn’t know what to expect when I signed up at Plus3Network.com. I logged in a few training session and it’s incredible! For my hike, my chosen charity gets $0.16/mile! The amounts vary by [...]

Eating Clean

I was on the river this past Monday with the Las Vegas Kayak meetup. We paddled 12 miles from the base of Hoover Dam through the Black Canyon to Willow Beach. It was a beautiful paddle with great people.

Among the folks I met was a man named Bruce. We chatted [...]

Slacker

I feel like such a slacker. I haven’t done much in the past week except snowshoe and walk a little. I haven’t been to the gym or been out running or biking. It’s the days and weeks like this that I wonder if I’m really up for this challenge and if I [...]

It really is all about the bike!

**Tracy is a guest blogger for SilvermanOrBust.com. Tracy has a long background in fitness and has raced numerous Triathlons among other events. She is also a physical therapist completing a graduate degree. Tracy is going into her second year as a pro-triathlete. **

It’s time to start talking about the bike. For most of [...]

Setback or Step Forward?

I could tell that training started off on the wrong foot this week when on Monday I found myself nutritionally depleted after one spin class. I didn’t expect this trend to continue the next morning by waking up in the early hours on Tuesday to a stomach revolt that proceeded to empty the contents of [...]

‘Live Your Life Out Loud: 30 Ways to Get Started’

For me, training tends to mirror life, with many of the same pitfalls and opportunities. I’ve begun to realize the same blocks I put in my “real” life apply to my training regimen.

Along these lines, I found some great advice over at tinybuddha.com:

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/live-your-life-out-loud-30-ways-to-get-started/