It’s been awhile since my last post, but to be honest absolutely NOTHING of note happened to me since I arrived home from Mexico three weeks ago. However, with only four days to go until my last race of the season – Ironman 70.3 World Champs – I figured I should at least get a short update on here no matter the boredom I inflict upon you, my poor readers. So read on if you dare, but don’t say I didn’t warn you!
So how goes the training in the lead up to Clearwater? I would describe it as ‘excellent!’ Over the past three weeks I logged normal swim volume, a few more hours on the bike than normal, and a lot more hours running than normal. This is the main reason for my lack of blogging – really good training blocks are often the most boring and uneventful time in the life of an athlete. I just ticked training session after training session off the schedule with relative ease, counting down the days to the end of the season.
This year’s lead up to Clearwater is in definite contrast with last year’s. Last year I raced the two weekends prior to Clearwater at the Amica Sprint Triathlon two weeks before and the Huatulco World Cup six days prior. It was a good plan at the time since Huatulco was the “A” race of the block so Clearwater took the back seat. This year, however, Clearwater is the goal so I made sure to have a full four weeks of uninterrupted training. Also, those Mexican race directors might not put on the best races but they certainly do have their post race parties down to a science. That certainly didn’t help my training for Clearwater 2009… but that’s a whole different story. Anyways, the point is I think I am a lot more prepared for the race in Clearwater this year than I was last year!