Storylines

Many different blog posts are the component parts of several longer, distinct stories I’ve told over the last five years.  Here, those posts are gathered together with each other for ease of navigating these stories.

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BWCA Honeymoon

• A Beginning
• Preparations
• Before and After
• And we’re off!
• Emergency snuggling
• Hot wet hair to cold wet boots
• Stillness before snow
• Wind and Snow
• To the bars!
• Bluckville in Portage Hell
• Rain, tears, and tea on the Gunflint.
• Raging for the final push
• Evil Pigeon River
• Crippling Grand Portage
• No Pictures of Purgatory

Winter Camping

• 6 reasons I love winter camping
• All Packed!
• Chop Wood, Carry Water
• Bad Igloo, Good Cabin
• Learning to Love Winter
• Ready for…?
• Camping Thwarted
• Tortoise Raging
• Winter Camping Timeline
• Winter Camping, Continued
• Well Above Zero
• Successful loop!
• 5 Winter Camping Lessons
• Not Hot
• Stick Bathing

Superiorman 70.3 Triathlon

• My triathlon journey
• Something Magical: My Watershed Biking Moment
• I blame the squirrel!
• Injury and inspiration
• My Big Tri, with tiny bubbles, a caterpillar, and ice.
• 7 lessons from racing

Beach2Battleship Iron Distance 140.6 Triathlon

• A blister and a race.
• Three reasons I feel like an athlete.
• F*n Training
• A Fun Upgrade: Training With Friends.
• Made possible by napping
• One good one.
• Delicious Energy
• The Reluctant Report
• More Energy Noms
• Not A Blister
• Countdown
• Bike Badge Earned.
• OMFG – Taper. Finally.
• Steeling Myself: Top 5 List of Pain and Fear
• Bear with me – overflowing gratitude.
• Long and Hard: B2B race report part 1
• Swim and Bike: B2B race report part 2
• The Last Three Miles: B2B race report part 3
• The Aftermath: B2B Race Epilogue

Yoga and Meditation

• Kitten Solution
• Happy Biker, Awkward Yogi
• Yoga brain cramp
• Finding My Yoga
• Again and again.
• Restorative Athletics

Biking

• My Triathlon Journey
• Something Magical: My Watershed Biking Moment 
• Happy Biker, Awkward Yogi 
• How bike commuting works for me 
• Blasted Ice Biking 
• A Fun Upgrade: Training With Friends 
• Not a Blister 
• Bike Badge Earned (Bike crash)
• OMFG – Taper, Finally 
• What A Ride
• Team VKS at Rib Mt. Race Report
• Waiting for Tri Hunger
• Traditions, Triathlons, and Homes
• Identities – Part One
• Identities – Part Two

Handstands

• Down the Rabbit Hole
• Curiouser and Curiouser
• Progress Report!
• Tortoise raging is my life – slow progress.
• Fish Ballet
• Handstand Goals. So Far Away.
• 5 Handstand Lessons
• Handstand Breakthrough & 4 Keys to Being Coached