Gretchen Stahlman is a writer living in upstate New York. She has published essays in Sport Literate, Relief, Literary Mama, and Marathon & Beyond (Fall 2010). She’s currently working on a collection of essays about triathlon in the MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University while training to improve her run/bike/swims skills. Her scraggly wetsuit has seen her through a half-Ironman but has not lured her into a full Ironman. (Yet.)