Podium in Valparaiso
A successful Chilean campaign ends with a third place in Valparaiso! Race reports to come.
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La Paz
If I had an Argentine Peso for every time someone said to me, “You have to race in La Paz sometime in your life. It’s an awesome experience,” I would be able to afford my weight in empanadas de carne from the rotiseria on the corner of Chacabuco and San Martin, right next to my
Happy New Year!
I am SO TIRED of looking at my post from Guatape. And after battling not one but TWO viruses on my website in the past month I found myself looking at that post a lot. I must post something new! If you visited my website you may have been notified that it was an “attack”
Guatape
“Dude, I think you need a bigger wetsuit!” Who knew that doing climbing repeats of El Peñón before the race would ruin my taper?! Kidding…I just had a horrific race. Let’s not talk about it. Time to look forward to 2012. El Peñón did provide for a nice post-race cool down workout, though:
Back to Huatulco
“The Hill” took a year off last year, as did I, but we were both back in Huatulco last weekend for the fourth annual Huatulco ITU World Cup. The repaving crews probably fixed up the hill in the few days before the athletes arrived and I must say the addition of the cobbles at the
National Champs
En route to another excellent partial-race in Buffalo. On to the next one: I’m gearing up for the Huatulco ITU World Cup this weekend, my first WC since March. A wise man once said: “If one is to race in Mexico one must embrace Mexico…”
Vegas
All I can say is that I was doing very well until about 65K into the bike. I swam well and found myself at the front of the race after only about 15K of riding. But being at the front of the race at 70.3 World Champs means lots of race referees watching you and
Kelowna
When a double Olympic medalist tells you “the plan” it’s best to pay attention. “Hey Kev, we’re going to cut right immediately – don’t swim on anyone’s hips, just get on feet. We’re going to string this swim out.” So that’s what we did – we cut right and I found myself on Simon’s feet.
NYC
I tried all week to put up a meaningful blog post about my race last weekend in NYC but it just isn’t going to happen. I’m currently in Colorado Springs training with the Squad and training is so hard that putting together words into sentences into paragraphs is a bit beyond my mental capacity right