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TRI Clear Lake 2026! 🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Storms delayed the race by 2 hours and forced the switch from Olympic to sprint, but the amazing race directors made it happen! 🙌

The swim was shortened from 1,500m to 500m but I found some feet to draft off and made the most of it! 🏊🏻‍♀️

Then it was FULL SPEED on the 12.5-mile bike through the rain, HAIL, and crosswind. 🌧️🧊💨 I went from last to second! I just needed a little more distance to catch first! 😅

A quick transition helped me hold my lead, but 3rd caught me with about a half mile to go. Sprints are SO fast! 🤪

Huge congrats to everyone who raced today, and the female podium @jesssmithtri & @grace_busch4 ! What an amazing day despite the wild conditions! So thankful God provided safety for everyone and gave us the opportunity to race. So much fun seeing so many friends out there! ❤️

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1.2 miles this morning at the “swim off to summer” event to start the triathlon season in Minnesota.
#teamcoeur2026🩵

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Exercise Physiology, officially Mastered 🎓

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Two degrees and two torn shoulders later

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Grateful for another year - Goodbye 2025 :) 🥳
The best is yet to come 😏🌟🫶🏽

#2025 #newyear

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A pretty spooky weekend 👻

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16——>17. Leonardo DiCaprio, you’ve got another year…

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And that’s a wrap ❤️

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Kicking off the season in Miami 🏝️☀️😁.

Looking forward to find my running legs for the next races. Slow build back from injury. Here we come 😝.

📸 2. @athletes.lgmphotos

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@sdcoyotestri headed down to Miami for the 2025 Americas Triathlon Cup!! Check out the stories for updates as the Yotes get ready to race. #goyotes

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This is not the post I had planned. It may sound stupid, but this whole year I had been fantasizing about this one Instagram post I would make in December. This was supposed to be my BMW Half Marathon post. I was supposed to be smiling, holding my medals, with my sub 1:20 PR; a symbol that no matter what life throws at me I come back stronger. Life had other plans.

Though this year has not gone even slightly how I wanted, it was still a pivotal year. So instead, I’m focusing this post on every bright light in my life that kept me going this year. At times, it felt impossible to stay positive. I watched my life stray further and further from the montage I had planned in my head. At times, it felt useless to even try when so little was in my control. I had to learn that the only thing I can control is my perspective. I refuse to let this be a wasted year. This was a year of growth, patience, healing, and gratitude. Just because I didn’t reach the deadline I set for myself doesn’t mean it’s over. There’s still a long road ahead of me before I can consider myself healthy or “back to normal” but I refuse to give up. Someday this year will be a memory and I’ll be grateful I never gave up.

Thank you to have everyone who has supported me this year. To my amazing teammates, friends, coaches, and support system in South Dakota, I miss you all so much. Thank you for your understanding when I could not be there. Thank you for checking on me. Thank you for listening. Thank you for making me feel seen from across the country.

Though I didn’t end this year with any crazy race results for validation, I chose to believe in myself nonetheless. I know what I am capable of and I will not stop working until I achieve it. I do not need any medals or chip times to believe I am worthy or strong, I already am those things. Thank you to God for guiding me through all the challenges this year. Through every disappointment I faced this year, I learned something new. I will not let this knowledge and growth go to waste. Though I may not be physically stronger yet, I am mentally stronger. I will not stop working until I am both. Can’t wait to be back ❤️ #goyotes

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