Week of 12 March Training

It's been a busy few weeks with work and training so I'm playing catch-up a bit. Fought off a nasty cold and some hamstring soreness (physical therapy worked wonders to re-hab this over the past 2 weeks) in time to feel great going into Nautica South Beach Triathlon next weekend. Bike and run splits are looking really solid this early in the season, swim still needs some work but still much improved over last year.

Week of 12 March Training (Recovery Week):
Total: 14.5 hours
Bike: 9:14
Run: 3:14
Swim: 2:16 (short week here) / 9,000 yards

A very much needed recovery week after a few weeks of really solid training block including 4 hour ride on Saturday w/ 7,000 ft of climbing (see pic at top the of Grant Mtn after interval #4). Spent most of this week travelling around the country for work and got back late Thursday night (picture of San Fran Bay run attached). Ended this week with a hard interval ride saturday averaging ~240 watts and 24 MPH. This looks pretty promising to try and push 25 MPH+ in Miami without blowing up. Same story on the run: 25 min hard run off @ 5:50 pace from this ride - solid solid!!

26 Jan - 4 Feb Training

Aerobic week
Bike: 6:30hrs
Run: 4:30hrs
Swim: 3:30hrs

Good week of training despite battling a serious cold. 4 weeks out from the start of the season and everything is starting to come together. Thankfully the cold is almost gone as of Sunday evening. Had several really solid swim sessions with race pace sets @ 1:24 this week. This is much improved from last season - still alot of work to go here before Vegas. Crazy week of weather in HSV as well. Battle 35 MPH winds while running speed sets on Friday and ended the week with a long aerobic ride yesterday and run today in you guessed it... more wind 25-30 MPH. This photo is pretty much the only time our bikes weren't getting blown all over the place.

It was a good news type of week...

Lots of great news this week...

#1: The baby and mommy are healthy at week 18... and we are having a boy!! K and I were thrilled to see Baby Stock (name to be released upon delivery) do a flip turn in the womb and see it was definitely a boy.

#2: Fleet Feet will be sponsoring several triathletes this year... and I will be joining them. We had a meeting Thursday night to try on our race kits (Sugoi Elite - frickin saweeeet!!) and get all the details. Really excited about this opportunity. I'll be racing Guntersville Olympic, Heel and Crank, Frantic Frog and Goosepond half for sure as part of my sponorship commitment. Still on the fence about Rocketman since it's so close to IM 70.3 Worlds - may do a relay though.

#3: Honey stinger sponsorship. So, for 2012 (and hopefully beyond) I'll be a proud member of the Honey Stinger Hive. Thrilled about this. Pretty much the only product (gels, gummies, and waffles) I can tolerate without GI issues during races. Looking forward to supporting all their products throughout the year.