Thats right folks. My first race of the year is this weekend! Saturday at 12 noon in Sarasota FL--draft legal olympic distance. At the least it should yield an interesting blog post for next week!
Side-note, my law class is crushing me so I am eating this right now.
With the start of the season I have been putting together a race schedule...well piecing a race schedule around the rest of my schedule. This will be my second year as a pro and again I decided that it would be good to spend at least one more year focusing on the olympic distance in an attempt to get fast--especially at running. Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to get as fast as the top guys, especially in running. I mean my swimming has improved a TON this winter and my biking has never really been an issue but how do you get your body to run super fast? I've always followed the precedent of the kenyans, run a lot, run fast, run fast a lot, and when you arent supposed to run, dont. Of course I think they have a physiological advantage on me since my legs are as thick as their chests. Who knows, each year I keep getting slightly faster which is encouraging but I still have a ways to go to compete with those top guys.
As I mentioned, my first race this weekend in Sarasota Florida as a draft legal race. I have never done a draft legal race (so that will be interesting) but for those of you unfamiliar, the format of this race is that you are allowed to draft on the bike portion. Therefore the tactics of the race change dramatically since large groups typically come off the bike together. Basically you can lose on the swim and the bike but you can only really win the race on the run. These races almost always come down to who can run the fastest 10k at the end. Sure I am a bit concerned about that, but honestly this being my first draft legal race I will probably do something totally dumb like drop by shoes or crash my bike. So I figure I should just focus on finishing without any major screw ups.
This also kicks off the first travel of my jam packed year...I just added it all up and I will be traveling a LOT this year:
14 different cities for triathlons
3 different cities for chemical engineering conferences
2 more different cities for weddings
Thats 19 different cities in one year. And that only takes me to the first week of November. I assume I will be going somewhere for the holidays (or else my parents get sad) so that would be some more travel there on the end. Yikes. I am going to get cancer from all the gamma rays.
In other news, winter finally hit Boulder. We have had snow like 2x a week recently. About time we got some precipitation in this place. Its real pretty actually. And weird because I kind of like it.
Thats all for now.
Rudy
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