update

My season is officially over. Some good races, some dissapointing ones. That's how it goes. It is time for physical and mental regeneration. There's plenty of yard work, weekend cartoons to watch, shallow pools to splash in, and lots of planning for next season.

I feel I came up with some marked improvements this season, but was not able to put it together on the big shows. The PotentrX team will be helping me train smarter to be able to make that good training translate to good racing. I will listen intently to what Dan has to say, see what it is that I am missing, so that I can do as Donovan says in the photo below.

Run, Papa, RUN!

I want to thank my awesome sponsors, Blue Seventy, Nuun, Blue Cycles, 1st Endurance and Potentrx, for being there for us and making racing possible. To my awesome family and friends, thanks for the support, and understanding (and baby-sitting!). We'll be back stronger and more determined!

And so I leave you with a nice sunset view from our home, as the summer ends in the PNW and we get ready for what looks to be another character-building fall and winter.

Thanks for reading.
JC

Fork in the road...

It's been 9days since IM Canada. Still with the nasty cold/cough. ugh.

The part of me that is used to the constant state of fatigue from training is asking "Where is the familiar stimulus, dude?" The part of me that looks at the calendar and realizes the up-n-down season has been pretty long asks "What's my motivation, dude?" So, here we are, at a fork in the road. The road to the right leads to the offseason, the road to the left leads to Arizona, one more big event. Time to put the blinker on...

Post Ironman Thoughts

It's been 8days since IM Canada. I've had a nasty cold/cough since the less-than-stellar race day. I've been trying to get my health back, spend time with Theresa and Donovan and take care of some home chores. It's been great so far, and has helped me not dwell too much about last week.

Here are some of my reflections from 8days ago:

*My swim is improving. I'm happy with my 59min swim, as I swam half of it on my own. It was just like long-swim training day. I need to be more assertive on race day so I stay in the right pack for better times. Keep working on it.

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*Take time in T1 to dress according to the weather. Full finger gloves, arm warmers and vest kept me at a nice operating temperature most of the day. I don't care if I looked like a fashion train-wreck.

*Difficult to say if I was already sick on race morning. Bottomline is, my engine shut down 2hrs into the ride. This requires some investigative work....

Green=power, Red=Heart Rate, Pink=Speed, Purple=Air Temperature

*No matter how crappy your race is going, keep pushing. Be grateful you are able to be out there, and when things aren't going well, learn what you can to have a better show next time.

*No matter how crappy your race is going, keep pushing. DNFs leave big empty holes, and Donovan loves all finisher's hats and/or medals you give him.

JC