Life Updates

Well as of today May 11th, 2011 I officially work at the Ironman Sports Medicine Institute at Memorial Hermann. This is a relationship we have been working on for more than a year now and I can honestly say I am excited to be a part of this new venture. The athletes we have had the pleasure to work with and will continue to work with are amazing athletes and great people who motivate me everyday. Here is the link to the new website if you want to check it out http://ironman.memorialhermann.org

In fact, in other related news I completed my first sprint triathlon this weekend and did great. I placed 11th in my age group!!! The swim was a struggle which I was expecting but I made it out of the water and did great on the bike and run and had a blast doing it. I have been training with my friend Nikki and we hope to log a few more races throughout the summer and early fall. I plan to stick with sprint distances which are 200-500m swims, 12 mile bikes and 3 mile runs. With a husband, work and very needy puppy at home that's about all I have time to train for, not to mention I can't even fathom swimming 500m much less more than 500m.

In other updates I just finished up my second semester of teaching biomechanics at University of Houston Clear Lake. It continues to be challenging but fun. I have been told by my colleague that all the students are afraid of me which I find hard to believe. I told him I'm not scary at all, I'm very nice but I have very high expectations. The next few weeks will continue to be insane here with the launch of our new brand, training courses and the first Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas on May 21st. But as soon as I make it through all that Tim and I are off to ITALY for 12 days and I can't wait!!!

If I can find some time before we leave I will post about our trip to Vegas in April!!

Far too long

Well it has been far too long since I posted and I happen to have a couple extra minutes on hand today so I thought I would give some quick updates. Since our trip to Australia last year things have been a whirlwind.



Taupo continues to keep us on our toes but we love the little guy to death and are so proud of the progress he is making becoming a little man. His favorite thing in the entire world is playing ball. First thing he does after getting out of the kennel in the morning or at night is go get his ball and wait for us to throw it for him. He also loves being by our sides but he waits by the door when he gets tired at night to go to bed in his kennel. I think it is too much work for him to keep track of us all night so he likes sleeping in the comfort of his own kennel where he doesn't have to worry.




My (Kim's) work has gone through many changes and is continuing to do so but these are very exciting changes and she is loving it. Triathlon season kicked off here in Texas the first weekend of April and we were lucky enough to be a part of two fun filled weekends and had some time with the pros. We spent a couple days between the first two races with Chris Lieto working with him and putting on some events for our athletes. Here is our team at the finish line of the Memorial Hermann Galveston Ironman 70.3 Race with Chris Lieto and his son right after he won. I even got to hold the finish line tape!! While I am fairly new to the whole triathlon scene I am really enjoying all the athletes. It was really fun spending time with Chris and his family, they are wonderful people, and I was thrilled to see him win and his adorable so Cayden give him his medal and sit by his daddy for all the interviews. He was a very proud little boy this day.

Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas will be here in a few weeks and I'm sure we will have lots more fun being out at that race and seeing all of our athletes. I am even signed up for my first race this weekend! I'm going to stick with the sprint distances but I am looking forward to the race and more training for the ones I will do later this summer. I have a friend racing with me and teaching me to swim (which is really the only thing I'm nervous about, the rest is just fun). So now work is keeping me busy, happy, and fit :)

As usual our lives are kept busy with work, Taupo and travel and we are just enjoying eachother.

After Ironman wraps up our next stop is Italy and we can't wait!!!