Guatape
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 Training
Long ago I theorized on Twitter that when an athlete is injured he or she will generally not blog for the duration of the problem. Being a regular reader of many athlete’s blogs I noticed that sometimes a normally routine blogger would go months without an update. What am I supposed to read with my morning coffee if nobody is blogging?! Later I would find out that the athlete was injured. Having never been injured myself (before these past few weeks) I never really knew what caused this blog neglect. Most athletes report that injuries are simply an incredibly depressing state of affairs and obviously this doesn’t lead to any writing inspiration. However, I now know the real reason behind the whole issue is this: NOTHING HAPPENS WHILE YOU’RE INJURED!!! No racing, no traveling, nothing! And my daily routine of swim/bike/rehab is definitely not blogworthy. The good news is that as of last week I’m back to running – pain free!
I would be in Mexico for the Monterrey World Cup right now but instead I’m sitting here eating breakfast at Panera. I’m definitely bummed about missing this opportunity to race another World Cup but Mexico is currently number one on “Kevin’s list of least favorite places to race” so I’m not that bummed. Good luck to everyone racing (especially Mark Fretta who took my start spot). May the host hotel not get raided by masked gunmen this year!
The swim start in Monterrey last year. Not scoring Olympic points this weekend sucks, but not having to go to Mexico is awesome!
OTC Sasquatch Sighting
There have reports recently of Sasquatch sightings here at the Olympic Training Center. We finally have some video evidence. Rumor has it that Sasquatch likes to come out around noon near the athlete center. You really have to be careful around here these days:
