2010 World Champs Series
In case you haven’t already seen it, check out the 2010 World Championship Series schedule. With Sydney, Seoul and Budapest being added for 2010 it should be pretty awesome. Not awesome, though, is the complete lack of races in North America. Looks like I’ll be spending a lot of time in Europe next summer!
Training Block
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 a surprise. I learned a few things last week about living in a cold place:
1) Water fountains get turned off in the winter. This made my long run more interesting last weekend…yeah, I bonked.
2) Ice takes awhile to melt after the temperature goes above freezing. I narrowly avoided falling a few times last week on the way to the aquatics building.
3) If it’s cold then going up mountains is fine, but coming down sucks. Again, I’m from Florida so I just didn’t know these things!
The view outside my window. Icy!
End of the Season Break – Ironman 70.3 Style
A few days after returning from Australia I flew back to Florida to visit home. It was a great way to unwind after all the traveling and racing of late! While I was down there I helped out at the Kids4Kids youth triathlon clinic in Gainesville, FL (in conjunction with the Kids4Kids Triathlon that happened one week later). I got to watch the Gators play Tennessee (with skybox tickets thanks to the kind folks at the First Coast Kid’s Triathlon!). Lastly, I raced my first half-ironman at the Augusta Ironman 70.3. I know, that’s not generally considered a “post-season relaxation” type of activity, but I wanted to try a 70.3 and this seemed like a good time to do it.
Helping out at the Kids4Kids Triathlon Clinic with Jeff from the UF Sports Performance Center.
Watching the Gators play Tennessee in style!
The pontoon start at Augusta 70.3 felt very much like an ITU race, and with so many short course guys on the start line like Eric Limkemann, Brian Fleischmann and Greg Bennett I kept reminding myself that I was about to race for twice as long as I am used to!
13 miles to go. I’m in ninth at this point, I ended up in seventh.
It turns out seventh place is the last person to get paid. Sweet! I also got a spot at the Ironman 70.3 World Champs in Clearwater next month.
