Central America

We love going off the beaten path. Training and racing. This is way off the beaten path on the Caribbean side of Panama. Deep jungle. Like see wild -animals-deep-jungle. Like see spiders and their webs that could have you for lunch jungle. So we were excited about the island of Roatan off Honduras race next month. Only thing is.......they just cancelled it. But we have flight tickets and rooms. They hopefully will have the race early 2011. Hopefully.

SC Velo mountain bike race

SC Velo put on a great event today @ Bonelli Park. Race directors Al and Omar have got it down. The course was challenging and big fun. I borrowed Corey's single speed and mixed it up with the blinged out carbon 29er's. I liked the fact that I was possibly the only steel framed, v-braked, inner tubed, not-a-single-piece of carbon SS out there. Do I sound envious? Okay I was. But had I been riding any one of those eye candy bikes today wouldn't have made a bit of difference. I managed a 3rd place and Corey's trusty old steed really pretty much performed.............flawless.

Today's mail........

Bills. That's what I typically get in the mail. But today this arrived. An official County of Los Angeles Gold Seal Award signed by the board of supervisors. All for winning the Los Angeles Triathlon Series race a few months ago. See what racing can do for you? So train smart, race hard and recover well. Schedule an appointment for sports massage with us and you'll be one step closer to getting one of these!!

Bonelli Express

The Team of Tri Events put in lots of hard work and it showed as their race this past Saturday was a blast for all. They gave away more free raffle schwag than I ever seen. Anywhere. Corey of Coates donating most of it. Chip timing and they already have results up with splits and that's always a treat. I knew Jodi was first female but not 6th over all!(women started in the last last wave) She layed it down! My trusty steed here provided me with the fastest bike split of the day carrying me from 10th out of the water to 1st into the bike/run transition. I had company pretty quick though and hung as long as I could with the young gun.. Then the "21" on his calf got smaller and smaller. And that was just fine. He had to work for it as he saw "51" in front of him for many pain-inducing and lactate producing minutes........ That was another fun race!

Challenging, rugged and beautiful.

Trained hard efforts with only quality miles this past month . Then tapered and included leg work(massage) Thursday. Virtually no activity yesterday ( except body work on others). Showed up fresh and went hard today. Not much air @ 8700' so that with steep inclines, needed every fast and slow twitch muscle fibers to be firing on all cylinders. Had company on the climb on bike, but was able to pull away on the run to gap 2nd place by three minutes. I have not gone THAT hard(or felt THAT pain) in sometime. Jodi did not know what to expect(but it's labeled HAC, or High Altitude Challenge) so she had some inclination!
My goal was to go 100%, race smart, and hope for no mishaps. That recipe delivered and an overall win was the result. Jodi was the first female to cross the line. Ole and his team, and Corey of Coates Cyclery simply provided an awesome event. For those of you who missed it: You missed it!

Pre Race

Mt. Baldy hurt-fest in two days. Fish taco's, an O'douls and leg work(massage) on the menu tonite. Leg's should be fresh and spunky come Sat. But after the climb on the bike and then run up another 1500' to the 8600' mark, the descent is steep and quad busting. I intend on holding nothing back. I will be damaged after, but then again, that's why we keep a massage table up like a piece of furniture!! Hope to see many there!!!!!

Race this Saturday

Looking forward to the lung burning climbs of Mt. Baldy this Saturday. Hopefully lot's of you will be attending. It's a challenging and fun event. Come on up and rock and roll!!!!