Escape from Alcatraz

[tribogota]

I signed up for the lottery and got a SPOT! yeah! am doing it for my 40th birthday which will be that month. May 2009. Just read the course carefully.....oooooof, it is gonna be the most challenging tri yet!
http://www.escapefromalcatraztriathl...nfo/course.htm

[Veronica]

Hey that's awesome! We'll have to come cheer you on!

Veronica

[Bike Chick]

How cool! Keep us posted on the training. It looks brutal. I can't think of a better way to celebrate turning 40!

[Tri Girl]

Congrats!! I had a friend who did that last year. She said it was amazing, but brutal. Be sure to wear a neoprene cap and a couple swim caps for the swim. She said it was the toughest part of the race- but also the most exciting.
What an amazing birthday gift to yourself!

[tribogota]

Check out the sand stairs, after an up and downhill run, plus a tough bike ride, I tried out some of the course....

[Tri Girl]

wow- that's crazy steep! My friend who did that tri said that was the pretty brutal (aside from jumping in the frigid water- but it makes you swim faster, right?).

It still looks like a lot of fun, tho...

[tribogota]

Started training for escape on the 1st of January, got 100 mins a day in until the 4th, then got a horrific stomach flu and fighting off dehydration, swam yesterday anyway, but basically have missed 3 days and will probably miss tomorrow. So only 7 days into the training have missed 3, arg! frustrating, plus I don't start teaching until the 12th, so these were extra precious training days, once the semester starts, well I am just fatigued most of the time.
jan, feb, and march are my key training months.

The good news is, that I was first overall in my category 35-39 in Colombia for 2009, not because I WON any races, but because I was consistent about racing and finishing, so racked up points. 1/15, not a big field of course.

[colby]

Started training for escape on the 1st of January, got 100 mins a day in until the 4th, then got a horrific stomach flu and fighting off dehydration, swam yesterday anyway, but basically have missed 3 days and will probably miss tomorrow. So only 7 days into the training have missed 3, arg! frustrating, plus I don't start teaching until the 12th, so these were extra precious training days, once the semester starts, well I am just fatigued most of the time.
jan, feb, and march are my key training months.

The good news is, that I was first overall in my category 35-39 in Colombia for 2009, not because I WON any races, but because I was consistent about racing and finishing, so racked up points. 1/15, not a big field of course.

Stomach flu. Hope you're feeling better and able to get back to training soon.

Hey, it's still a success, take what you can get!! Congrats.

[salsabike]

The good news is, that I was first overall in my category 35-39 in Colombia for 2009, not because I WON any races, but because I was consistent about racing and finishing, so racked up points. 1/15, not a big field of course.

Seems pretty wonderful, still! Good for you, kiddo. Hoping you feel better very soon.

[tribogota]

Totally over the flu and since I didn't eat for three days seemed to have lost 2 of the 5 lbs my coach wants me to lose.
Yesterday we did a fabulous brick, and it was very much like the race route,
we went up 8k of steep on the bike, came down, did 5 intervals of a very steep hill (have to be out of the saddle), then left our bikes with the coach and RAN up the 8k steep that we had cycled up. I loved it.
Today we did stadium stairs, did NOT love that...

[tribogota]

Have been training well, love the Sunday brick of up hill ride, then intervals, then run up that same hill. Am clocking 600-700 minutes of training a week, lots of strengthening, even did abs for a whole week, ok, yep, only one week, will do them again this week.... and I would have never ever thought, but this year I am actually running LESS slow than last year. I thought I had only one pace and that it was never gonna speed up, but 2 1/2 years later of disciplined running and I am a tiny bit faster. YEAH!!!
Had a female set back this week, a horrid colscopy with a medieval gynecologist and that left me bleeding three days, so I didn't train. But back on track and loving every minute.

[salsabike]

Hey! Nice to hear this.

[spindizzy]

Tri- awesome training. You will be very strong and capable when doing Alcatraz.

[Veronica]

Glad to hear things are on track for you.

Veronica

[tribogota]

Took the day off last Saturday and went to the beach and boogie boarded! what fun, and what a calf work out jumping up and down in the waves