Today was a perfect weather day to do any workout under the sun, I hope you all got outside to sweat and hurt a little in the name of fitness! My workout was to be a 2 hour road ride (mtn. bike in the shop AGAIN) followed by an hour run. Let me preface this with my Saturday workout, which was doing as much water skiing as we could actually muster with our dear friends out at West VA. Sunday dawned with every muscle hurting between my toes and my shoulder blades, so the workout was really a WORK IT OUT ride and a gentle lope rather than run and more for the dogs than for our training. BUT we didn’t quit and feel so much better for it! For the record, water skiing is my favorite sport, what a rush! THANK YOU FAMILY HOLT!
Jul 102011
It has been too long, but I’m back! First of all I want to mention that in my attempt to spread the good word of mtn. biking to our youth, I entered my 6 year old in her first mtn. bike race at Wakefield last Wednesday. I prepared her only in that she can ride a bike awesomely well, but we haven’t done a ton of trails yet. It was fairly shocking to say the least for Valerie, first real race of any kind and it’s on a bike and on darn tricky trails. Despite crashes and tears, she NEVER quit, and I am so proud of her!! Her 3 year old sister is now biking on a 2 wheeler, no training wheels for that one. I am afraid of her natural talent for the bike, my hair will go straight white the year she starts to race.
I just raced XTERRA Rocky Gap today, what a well organized awesome race! It is put on by EX2adventures.com and the day went smooth and perfect! The day was warm and dry, great for trail riding and mountain running! I got to meet a ton of great friends at this race this year, I think we are finally growing the sport, at least locally! WOOHOO! My personal result today was a solid overall female win and no terrible crashes. I also won Richmond XTERRA last month so I am in full training for Maui XTERRA this year once again.
I hope you are all training well, having a great summer with your fitness and overall health. Check out Jim Harmon’s mtn. bike and trail running races on his website www.ex2adventures.com, I myself plan on racing the majority of the races left on the schedule, so hopefully I will see you there!
My best to you all, Dr. Kathy
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