Saturday, April 18th

Rain, rain, rain. This time last year I was in Hainan China, biding my time before my 3rd Ironman, and first non-Kona IM. Kinda funny, I sit here with 2+ feet of new snow 3 miles west, 36 degrees and raining, and in China last year it was 107 degrees during the race. I still have the 2nd degree burn scars.
Wildflower should prove a much more appropriate event, plenty of hills, wetsuit swim, with a sweet singletrack run. Pray for cool weather. Little tired this am in the pool... 4 hours on the trainer this evening should conclude my saturday. Chris Carmichael is speaking here in town this afternoon, mostly as a wellness seminar, but I think I will pop in and see what kind of Lance references he makes :)

Thursday April 16, 2009

rain and snow. first day off the legs in a few weeks... not by choice. Wildflower triathlon in 2.5 weeks. Fitness is getting there. Swimming 5-6 days/wk and it is really paying off. dropped about 5sec/100 at a given effort, have a long way to go still. should be under 30 minutes at WF, goal is to get down around 25 or 26 minutes. My run is getting stronger. 6xmile last week @ 5:15 w/ 1 minute rest, up here at altitude.
Excited to see the fam and friends in Cali, will be a great kick-off to the 2009 season!