Pre-race fun at St. Anthony's Triathlon 2010

The athletes headed to St. Petersburg for the St. Anthony's Triathlon. The accomodations were ideal, thanks to Brian Herzig of Team Herzig, and allowed the athletes to focus on the race preparations and the race itself. As you can see the focus was on some pre race fun as well.

More exciting news and updates about the race to come soon!

Ciara Poidums at Meek n Mighty at St. A's

On a chilly and windy morning, Ciara set out to compete at the Meek n Mighty triathlon down in St. Petersburg. Her competition came from all parts of the country, particularly Illinois, which boasts the powerfull Multisport Madness triathlon club. The club has some of the fastest juniors in the world.

A little apprehensive due to limited training over the last month due to various reasons, Ciara jumped in the 200m swim with hopes of just doing her best and coming out the other side healthy. The pool swim was very crowded; nonetheless she posted a great time, almost 40 secs faster than last year, and with limited swim training.

The bike was very windy, but she motored through with one of the fastest bike splits. A little discomfort found it's way in Ciara's knee early on the run, but she put her head down and finished strong, second in her age group and 3rd overall. Not necessarily what she wanted, but considering the circumstances, a great race and she brings home some hardware.

We look forward to beginning a great block of training that will prepare her for the Youth Jr National Chapionships in San Diego in August.

Get psyched!

Easter Morning Pain Session

Bright and early Sunday morning, Nic Tautiva set out on 4 x 15 min of LT work and a hot brick followed. With only 2 min recovery, the sessions were challenging but Nic pushed through and finished up at 350 watts on the last interval. Great work, Nic. Now we need to work on some efficiency ; )

First Lucky's Lake Swim for MBE

http://luckyslakeswim.com/

Woke up early Friday morning for my first open water swim with some of my athletes at Lucky's Lake in Orlando. We started at 6:30am, thus it was still dark and somewhat intimidating. Upon entering the water, there was a submerged alligator, about 4 feet away, and after a split second realized he wasn't real. But in my half awake state, the darkness, and with the realistic appearance, I did jump!

The approximate 500m crossings were great. The still air, the flat water, and the darkness made for a surreal experience; like swimming in a black hole (like I would know what that would be like). Then things started to get challenging as I haven't swum in about 10 weeks.

I swam with Nic Tautiva to protect him from natures wrath. Then he ventured on his own to complete the challenging workout. He descended his crossings to 6:18.3!

Another MBE athlete, Adam Gathman emerged from the darkness as we had just missed him at the start.

I'm looking forward to next week, when I get more athletes out there for some fun in the darkness amongst the gators.

MBE Athletes in the News!

The Great Clermont Triathlon on March 28th, 2010

http://bestoftheustrinews.com/

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fitness_exercise_health/2010/03/great-clermont-triathlon-2010-results.html