First Coast Kids Triathlon…and on to Seoul!
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 second year in a →
All That Worry Was For Nothing!
As I mentioned in my last post I decided not to race in South America in the early season for the first time since 2007. What I didn't mention, however, was the fact that my start positions for the first few races of the year were in imminent danger - several athletes were in range of passing me on →
Florida Fun
After St. Anthony's I decided to spend a little bit of time in my home state visiting friends and family and generally having a ton of fun in Florida! Here is a little bit of what I did: I stayed with my coach Jen Hutchison in St. Pete for a few days. She made me a pancake breakfast the →
Stuck in Colorado
I was going to fly back to Florida this week but not anymore (not that I'm complaining!). The only problem is that I'm racing the Chicago Triathlon this weekend and I was going home to get race wheels!Tropical Storm FaySo, in the mean time the Olympic Training Center was nice enough to give me a room for an extra →
Olympic Triathlon!
Oh man, I'm excited. The women's Olympic triathlon starts in 6 hours! That's 10 AM local time in Beijing (it's already tomorrow there), or 10 PM Eastern Standard Time (tonight!), and 8 PM here in Colorado Springs. The men's race starts 24 hours after the women's race. Here is the info on US TV coverage:Olympic Triathlon →
Junior Nats
In what was probably the most exciting thing to happen here in Colorado Springs since my arrival about a month ago, the Junior and Youth National Triathlon Championships took place yesterday over in Prospect Lake Park (a quick 15 minute walk from the training center). "Junior" in triathlon is defined as athletes aged 16-19 and "youth" is 13-15. →
