Smashfest Diaries

by Libby Schroeder Since Mother’s Day is this month, I thought I’d start out this year’s blog posting with a mom-related topic. While many of us on the team are...

by Josie Vitale You know that thing that happens when you meet people for the first time and they find out you do Ironman? You start to see them do...

photo credit: @john_doenut_foto If you had told me in early February that just a few weeks later I’d be racing a 340-mile ultra-running-relay across Death Valley, I wouldn’t have believed...

As the 2018 season gets underway, the 17 women of Smash-Dimond team are getting ready to tackle a wide range of smashfests: from Ultraman to sprint national championships. And they’ll...

Kona. The sine qua non of Ironman. By some miracle, I was permitted to race it. To be clear: I am not fast, and I may never be fast in...

I knew it was going to be a good weekend when my mom said to me, “I am just so happy about all that you are doing, and who you...

It took being stalked by a mountain lion in the dark to make me realize what I'd really missed the most about endurance sports. While most of my brain was...

“Are you okay?” Marion asked after he arrived home from work. “Yeah, I’m fine.’ I mumbled. ‘I’m just tired.” I was exhausted.  “Well, of course you are. You just ran...

Lauren, you recently had an absolute breakthrough race at Ironman Chattanooga, finishing as third amateur female overall and punching your ticket to Kona for the first time. There are so...

In the summer of 1986, I saw a movie that changed my life forever. Like so many others in our country and all around the world, I had lost that...

As an athlete living in Hawaii I have only a few options for local triathlons. That means I have travel off island for the majority of my racing, which means...

    I come from a gymnastics and climbing background, and later ventured into CrossFit. I’ve even coached other athletes in both gymnastics and CrossFit, but throughout the first seven...