1st Win

Well I finally got my first overall win a couple weeks ago at Iceman Sprint. I just now found enough time to make an entry about it. It definately wasn't my best performance, but I did enough to win. One thing that was interesting was that I didn't have the fastest swim, I didn't have the fastest bike, and I definately didn't have the fastest run, but I did do all three pretty good. It just further illustrates the point I try to make to my clients. Triathlon is the sport we are competing at. It isn't a swim, bike, or running race. It showed that you can win a triathlon and not be the fastest at any one sport. Well anyway I was still very pleased with the result and hope to carry some of that success and confidence to St. Croix. This weekend will be a nice test of fitness for me. I have my last build week leading up to St. Croix and I am ending the week with a mile swim race on Sat. and an Olympic distance tri on Sun. I have never done a swim race before, so it will be nice to get a gauge on what my top end opening water swimming is for the mile. I am going to treat the olympic alittle differently. I am going to treat the swim and bike like a sprint. Pretty much all out. Then I am going to build the run like in a half ironman. This will help me get an idea of how hard I can swim and bike in St. Croix. Bascially what kind of effort can I put out and still run well? It is great timing for a dress rehersal before a big HIM.

Train safe...... Ron