About Me

I like to eat.  I like to drink.  Exercise tends to annoy me.

Despite a long love affair with food, I was a Division I college tennis player, which kept my weight in check until I quit my junior year.  Once games of Robo-pound and Flip-Cup replaced 4 hour-a-day, 6 day-a-week workouts, I lost my tenuous hold on my weight, which skyrocketed to 215 pounds.  I vaguely resembled Cartman from South Park by college graduation in 1999.

Athena Cartman

I tend to eat when stressed, bored, or breathing, and I have the added distinction of being a recovering bulimic with a hormone imbalance that makes it a challenge to lose weight.

In other words, my body and I have had our share of challenges.

After getting my mind and body under some semblance of control, and years as a desk jockey, I realized I longed for an athletic pursuit again and joined Team-In-Training in Feb 2008.

I couldn’t run a mile.

Since then, I have completed 3 Olympic distance races, 8 sprints Tri’s, a few 5/10 k’s, 2 half-marathons, and a half-ironman.

Oh, and a little thing they like to call an Ironman.

I documented the Ironman journey 2009-10 with the intention of losing the title “athena” class.  I never quite hit the weight goal I wanted.  But I did accomplish some big things.  Then I disappeared in a mire of love and lethargy.

But it’s 2011 and I’m baaaaaack.  Training, raising money for cancer, kicking ass.