A brief race report from HyVee: My swim was excellent! I exited the water in the front pack only 30 seconds down from the leaders. This was great since my swim was off for the first few races of the season. Onto the bike I was in the front pack within half of a lap […]
In pictures (but a few words, too): Reason #1: no more cables for the derailleurs! The derailleur cable routing on both my bikes is gloriously empty. No cables means no more dealing with ‘stretching’ and adjusting the shifting all the time. Which brings me to reason #2… Dialing in the shifting is a breeze: just
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Since it is currently the time of year when I realize that my swim is awful and needs lots of work, I am throwing myself into every session I can reasonably attend with the swim squad here at the OTC. This does seem to be a yearly occurance – last year I found myself almost
The race in Seoul didn’t go as planned but just like I found out in Mooloolaba, Sydney and St. Anthony’s I need to re-evaluate my swim program. Fortunately I have five weeks until my next race (HyVee) – Good thing I have these big training blocks to work with! Although my race was a disaster
I grabbed my first win of the season yesterday – at the First Coast Kids Triathlon in Jacksonville! Actually, since I was around in Florida for some sea level training and St. Anthony’s (kind of) before Seoul I made my way up to Jacksonville to help out and be a ‘celebrity big kid’ for the
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For those who asked: I did race in St. Anthony’s this past weekend…but I didn’t finish. My coach and I decided for numerous reasons to not do the race in its entirety. I did leave myself the option of doing the whole thing in case I felt absolutely spectacular…but that didn’t happen. My next race
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Well I’m back from Australia and after a whirlwind of jet lag, taxes, and trying to organize all of the new gear I got from Shimano, Orbea and Rudy Project I finally have some time to blog! If nothing else the races in Mooloolaba and Sydney gave me a big list of things to work
Myself and most of the American team from Mooloolaba spent the past ten days in Noosa, Queensland. It didn’t make sense to come back to the United States before the first race in the 2010 World Championship Series in Sydney so we just stayed over! For those who don’t know, Noosa is a very popular
Finally – internet in Australia! Despite being a fully modern country getting on the interwebs has been a huge issue. I am very happy with my ninth place finish, although I would describe my swim, bike and T2 as ‘technically unsound.’ Getting ninth with the sixth fastest run isn’t a great statistic! Felt good on
I recently wrote an article for Team Evotri about what a day in the life of an Olympic training center resident athlete is like. Check it out: Day in the life article