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It has been a busy 2 months! But a good 2 months of solid racing and training! Here is my recap...
Dear Friends, athletes, and partners; It has been a busy 2 months! But a good 2 months of solid racing and training! Here is my recap... Early February, I discussed with my sport director about the general direction of my season. Given the fact that I have multiple commitments and extensive traveling to consider, we agreed on keeping the 2010 racing calendar as close as possible to home. Given that I was in Florida for a family vacation, before the EPERFORMANCE TRAINING CAMP, I raced my first 5kms of the season. The first 5km on Feb 20 was not pretty! It had been a long time since I have been this anxious for a race... the results was not spectacular but I managed to run 17:00 (OK, it was slow!), 1st overall. The following weekend (Feb. 28), I went back for more pain and my 2nd 5km in 2 weeks. The result was less embarrassing, 16:30 1st overall, but still a lot of work to be done. After 2 weekends of racing, I made my way to Clermont, FL for the EPERFORMANCE TRIATHLON TRAINING CAMP for 8 days (Mar 05-13). This camp focused on running for multi sport athletes. Most distance athletes are training long and slow, thus promoting slower times! We focused on speed work, drills, and body posture over multiple runs in a day. Even if the weather in Florida was close to freezing point, we kept on punishing our athletes with 3hrs rides and outdoor swims. This was my best experience at a Clermont Camp! Athletes were hungry for knowledge and the atmosphere was relaxing. We had a great group! After a few days home, I headed to New Jersey for the OCEAN DRIVE MARATHON (Mar 28). I made a quick stop in NEW YORK for a ONE-DAY SWIM/RUN clinic hosted by TRITRAIN (Mar 27). I had the chance to be accompanied by my sport director and work with Jason Schneider, who organized this clinic. We had an eclectic swimming group, most of them dreading the Triathlon swim. By the end of 90min clinic, all had improved their skills 3-fold! I moved the tired group across town for the running portion. Running can be easy... but the longer you go the harder it gets due to poor technique. Thus we focused on body posture and again: SPEED WORK! I jumped in the car and drove down to the Ocean Drive Marathon (my first in 6 years). The marathon was from Cape May up the coast to Sea Isle City NJ, point to point. Pretty cold, crazy winds and some rain; overall a pretty challenging course (about 5 bridges) and fairly rough conditions. Five minutes before the start, my watch died. I had no time, no pace... I asked around to see if I could borrow a watch. No luck. I look around to figure out who was fast... but not too fast. I had agreed to follow the plan given by my sport director: don’t run faster than 3h00, so you get back the feeling of what running a 3h00 marathon is. I locked on to a guy that looked fit and fast... put my head down and went... TOO FAST! Headwinds were very brutal, especially on the bridges coming into the towns. I was in a group of 4... I had no clue what pace I was running. I made a decision to slow down... within 5km from the finish line, I moved to 2nd place and finished with a time of 2h46:30. Not bad for running by feeling! This is something I DO NOT RECOMMAND TO ANY OF MY ATHLETES!!! CLEAR?!?!?! I am now heading (Apr 06) to Mauritius, where I will be giving a triathlon Coaching course for the International Triathlon Union (ITU). I will be backing home on April 17. NEXT EVENTS: + Apr 25 – 5km ST-Laurent, QC Canada + May 09 – Duathlon Chambly, QC Canada + May 16 – Duathlon Sorel, QC Canada + May 30 – Sprint Distance Triathlon OKA, QC Canada + June TBD: 70.3 Mooseman, NH USA or ITU Long Distance Triathlon Asian Champs in Korea
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