All about training
This weekend a lot of my friends are heading down to Salinas, Ecuador to race in the ITU Pan American Cup there. The race in Salinas combined with the races last month in La Paz, Argentina, and Viña Del Mar, Chile, constitute the super-early season ITU race schedule in the Americas. I realized last night […]
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If you could go anywhere in the world for a winter training camp where would you go? I think most would answer one of the usual suspects: Hawaii, Southern California, Tucson, South Africa, Australia, etc. What about Gainesville, FL? Don’t laugh! It’s true: Gainesville is a spectacular winter training destination. In fact I just got
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The 2009 racing season is finally over and I definitely ended it on a high note. Things went better than I ever expected during my October altitude training block – I definitely learned a lot about training and how to get myself ready to race. Here are some pics. My primary November race was the
After three months of racing approximately every other weekend it’s finally time for a training block! I’m back home in Colorado and putting in a good 30 day altitude training block to get ready for November racing. Being from Florida, however, the concept of ‘seasons’ is new to me so last weekend’s snow was definitely
Well I finally made it – I am now a resident athlete at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center! “Made it” not only in the sense that my days of epic solo road trips are over (Orlando to San Diego in December and San Diego – OK City – Austin – Colorado Springs more recently),
Chula Vista is awesome. My time here is almost up and I will soon be moving to my “long term” resident location at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, and even though Colorado Springs is equally awesome I will be the first to admit that I will miss training in Chula. The warm San
2008 Orbea Orca w/ full Dura-Ace 7900. Sweet! Florida Bicycle Sports hooked me up with my new bike for the 2009 season a few weeks ago. My first impression is that it is freakin’ awesome! I’m packing up right now to go race it in Ecuador – first race on the new ride!
After a fun three weeks of racing in Europe I am now back in the states and back to training. I am lucky enough to be able to spend five weeks in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the Olympic Training Center at a development training camp put on by USA Triathlon. This means access to amazing
I haven’t posted in awhile and that’s mainly because I’ve been hitting some high volume training in the past 3 weeks – this week ended up at 26.75 hours. This seems like a lot to me now but I have a feeling this will probably be normal for me in the near future. My highest
So I’m pretty much getting back into the swing of things in terms of training. Here is what I did yesterday: 2 x 4 hour nap intervals. I couldn’t quite finish the second because I was awakened to fill out customs forms. 2 mile tempo walk w/ luggage cart. This is the approximate distance between
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