Welcome to TRI-CHOTOMY.



I'm just an averge age grouper blogging about Triathlon Training and this complex puzzle of juggling life, having fun and the Tri(als) and Tri(bulations) of "My Reality Show". With the Miami Ironman 70.3 race now in the books I've set a new goal, competing and completing Ironman Louisville 2011 in August. Twice the distance, twice the pain, twice the fun. As a warm up race and I never would have believed hearing myself say this, I'll be doing Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island in July. Once again I'll be sharing these experiences with my great friends Chris and Justin and look forward to the next several months of training and racing with them.

I'll share my training, race and gear experiences and hope you'll comment and even offer advice from your experiences.

Remember,

"Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever".

"Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cliff bar in one hand, Gatorade in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

"You can sleep when you're dead!"




Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Get ready to ride Bob

Today was my last ride with Justin till next week so I wanted to make it memorable. Tammy and I are heading to San Diego for some R&R and I'll be doing a really short race while there. I emailed Justin his training schedule for while I'm away and told him to download his data to his Garmin Connect account so I could analyze it and give him hell if he doesn't follow my instructions. He better or it'll hurt when I get back. So today I scheduled 50 km on the bike and a 6 km run afterwards. Chris joined us even though he has Lake Placid coming up this weekend and my buddy Bob was tagging along too doing his first ride with us. Bob's not a triathlete but we figured we'd make an exception and let him ride with some real athletes as compared to those peloton and drafting roadies he usually goes out with. I told Justin to lead, Bob to chase and Chris and I would follow up since we were tapering for races. Ok, ok my race is barely a race but I figured I'd keep Chris company. But I know Chris and I half expected him to bolt and ride hard from the get go. Man he's competitive. I've seen him chase down riders a kilometre ahead of us just because they're there. But then so do I. Justin set a good pace and Bob settled in to roadie mode and sat on his rear wheel the whole way. If nothing else Bob has learned how to conserve energy while riding with his roadie group. At one point we passed some of the guys he rides with and some jaws dropped seeing him with 3 triathletes on aero bikes. Yes we're trying to convert him but somehow I don't think Bob will take up running. We finished up with a 29.5 km/hr average speed and Justin should be happy with that, it's about a km/hr faster then what he's been riding and for Bob I think it's 3-4 km/hr faster. Amazing what you can do with a little drafting eh Bob? Chris and Bob went their ways after the ride and Justin and I set out to run. Well maybe Justin called it a run but come on, really Justin? Boy we have a lot of work to do. Better not miss any training while I'm away buddy.
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