It keeps getting better
Whew, these Colorado winters are just brutal:
Saturday — 60°
Sunday — 66°
Monday — 66°
Tuesday — 72°
Wednesday — 72°
Thursday — 67°
Friday Jordan and I were skiing some of the best snow in world, and Saturday I was outside mountain biking sans jacket and gloves. Sunday I ate breakfast outside. This morning I ran in shorts. You get the idea. It’s a rough life.
Pic from the trail: Looking S. from N. Table Mtn on Saturday. Coors Brewery is in the foreground. N. Table Mtn. is my new favorite place.
The warm weather has me really excited about the upcoming race season, now just 3 short months away! It’s looking like I’ll kick the season off at St. Anthony’s, but I’m still toying with the idea of heading to Miami in mid-March to see some fam and get the rust out with the Miami International Tri.
My itch to race will be quelled slightly with a 1650 at a swim meet in two weeks. In December my swim felt great, and I was seeing significant progress each week, even busting out a 1:05 (100 yd) in team goals one day — though admittedly, I caught a bit of a draft from Cyrus — 1:05 nonetheless!! Now, it’s hurting. I was sick for 2 weeks around New Years and didn’t feel back to normal until this past Saturday. Hopefully I can get things moving before the swim meet and make a big improvement off of my time from my 2008.
As for cycling and running? TBD. I’m on the trainer a lot more this winter, so that can only mean good things, right? Last winter around this time I was really ramping up my running in preparation for the Boston Marathon, so it’s silly to compare apples to oranges. There’s no doubt in my mind that come April I’ll be ready to go across the board, but now I am getting impatient and itching to have some fast workouts to get a feel for where I am. I should be patient, but that’s never going to happen.
Sunday trainer ride at Bicycle Village with the Riptide Team. Hurtin.
There you have it: my mid-Winter training update =)
