Age: 25
Favorite food: Salad
Preferred racing distance:Olympic and 70.3 half Iron.
Number of years racing: This is my 9th season

How has training changed for you before and after having a child?
I certainly am not overtrained anymore! Besides spending less time on the bike and having to run in the heat of the day with a jogging stroller, not much has changed. That is, if I can get up at 5:30 a.m. and drag myself to the pool.

How did you maintain fitness during pregnancy and be able to come back on top and winning races?
I was running slowly until just a few weeks before the birth and swam slowly until the very end. The night before my son was born I was biking on the trainer in my living room. However, I still felt very much out of shape after post-partum. With much discipline, I slowly gained my endurance back and am still working on regaining speed.

What is your training schedule like?
I usually work out twice a day. I either run and bike or swim and run. I swim early in the morning, run with my son when he takes a nap, and bike when my husband gets home from work. If neither of us are racing and we can get a babysitter, my husband, Karl, and I go for a longer bike ride on Saturday.

Does it make it easier to have a spouse who is involved in the same sport?
I have been thinking about this for a while, and I am not sure what the answer is. If Karl was a couch potato and happy watching our son, Noah, when he gets home from work until he goes to bed, then I would
have a lot more time to train and we would not spend every weekend at a race. But it is certainly more fun to race/train with Karl, talk about the racing scene, and fight over who gets to read triathlon magazines first. We especially enjoy cross-training together. That is why I always knew I wanted to marry an athlete.

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