Author Archives: Lisa

Well. As I stated earlier this week, you never can predict what new challenge an EpicWoman camp will provide, and this year is clearly no exception. After 6 of these suckers, I’d figured I was prepared for nearly anything, but….. … Continue reading →

Rest day…..EpicWoman style, of course! We drove down to the pier for the only mandatory training session of the day, a 10k run on Ali’i. Since we stayed three miles from town along Ali’i drive during previous Kona camps, the … Continue reading →

Today was billed as an ‘easier’ day. Of course, here in EpicWoman land, everything is relative…. The minimum daily swim workout had options to be done either in the ocean (3k or 5k) or Kona community pool (3300yds/3k or 6600yds/6k, … Continue reading →

Today was only a bike ride ) A long bike ride. As in over-9.5 hours-in-the-saddle long. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?! The route was to start from the house (1600 feet give or take), ride down to … Continue reading →

It’s all coming back to me now….. So glad that day1 is over, and that I’m getting into the swing of the rhythms of EpicWoman camp again. Being my 6th year at camp, it’s pretty amazing how easily I fall … Continue reading →

What an epic first day–tougher than any of the previous EpicWoman camps for sure!The day started off with an almost 3k swim from DigMe beach (I probably logged close to 3k since I swam off on a tangent at one … Continue reading →

It is so wonderful to be back on the big island for EpicWoman Camp #6! This is such a magical place, filled with so many incredible memories for me–good, and some not so good!–it’s impossible not to feel excited about … Continue reading →

It never ceases to amaze me how our bodies can heal with a nite’s (and not even a good one–my Sleep Cycle app tells me that last nite’s sleep was only 38% quality!) rest. Yet somehow i woke up mentally … Continue reading →

If the previous days of training on Lanza this week could be described as ‘playing on lava mountains in the winds’, today was more like training in a wind tunnel (with mountains) with the windspeeds set at max–and from all … Continue reading →

I had the thought during the morning’s specified 3k swim that the motto of EpicWoman camp should be “Shattering mental limits while shattering physical limits!” It never ceases to amaze me how far we can push our bodies if we … Continue reading →