Final Prep for St. Croix

This weekend turned out to be a great way to cap off some hard training leading up to a big race. The Playtri Festival was great for a first year event. Very well organized. I did the long course swim race on Sat. I was alittle disappointed with performance until the next day I realized that we swam the HIM course and not 1500m. So I guess not too bad of a swim on Sat. I was all over the place on Sat. Sun was a different story. I felt alot better in the water and felt like I really was able to swim near potential. I have putting alot of time in the water hoping to close the gap on the competition this year. I can tell those long sets for time are paying off, and those 15000-20000m weeks are starting to show. The rest of the olympic race went as I wanted. I rode hard yet under control like planned. I did push into the wind harder than I normally would in a longer race. It didn't wear on me too much. I was most pleased with my run. The plan was to ease into the run and try to stay in training pace to HIM pace the entire run, slowly building to a steady yet very manageable pace. I was able to do this and still run 40 min very comfortably. I did get into alittle sprint to the finish line with some guy for 3rd place overall. That was alot of fun and a big confidence builder for St. Croix in two weeks. Next two weeks are pretty light. Just some fine tuning, and making sure my diet is spot on. Thats it for now.

RT