Tri-ing Life and More

So I like to push my limits in life and I love Disney, so the Goofy Challenge seemed to fit perfectly. The Goofy Challenge is a half marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday all through Disney parks. Now to make me look less crazy, I could have done the Dopey Challenge which adds a 5k and 10k on Thursday and Friday. So Goofy doesn't seem that bad. I was planning on doing this January 2015 with my friend Amanda, but knee surgery in November made that impossible. So I deferred to 2016 and convinced my dad to do the half with me again. Then I found out that my triathlon team, Team Z, was also doing this for a team race. I had about 100 teammates down there racing, which is always fun. Dad and I had done the half 3 years ago and learned some lessons: Parks the day before the race is exhausting. Dad can't sprint through the Magic Kingdom. The start is way too early! Going to the park after the race is also rough. So we planned this trip using our lessons and de...

After three nights based in Reykjavik, we decided we wanted to see a little more of the island. We all really wanted to see ice caves and the Northern Lights, hence why we went during the winter.  Ice caves are mostly located about a 4-5 hour drive from Reykjavik so we used that to explore a bit. Day 4: Driving the Southern Coast We had been told that the Southern Coast was more beautiful than the Golden Circle so we wanted a full day to explore. This is the part of the island that makes me really want to go back in the summer as I could tell the landscaped changed often, but it was covered in a lot of snow. Tom and Sean had a wonderful set of places for us to see so we trusted them with the agenda and set off. Well before meeting them, we hit a fun bakery near our house where I got an incredible cream puff with chocolate and strawberry jam. Yes it wasn't quite breakfast food, but totally worth it on vacation. Ok so now that I was enjoying my sugar high, I joined Tom and Sean...