Swim Clinic

Some folks have sent emails wondering when my next clinic with Tim Storsteen is: September 7.
We keep the clinics lively and routinely tease each other to help alleviate any anxiety a participant may feel about anything related to “swimming”. Some of those clinics have been FUNNY with everyone laughing. I love that.

The feedback we get is predictably positive and participants continue to be really pleased with the clinic. Clinics are small (we cap at 8 people per clinic) and they are extensive. 2.5-3 hours in length to include individual video tape analysis and lots of pool time to work on the drills designed to improve the stroke. I am proud of these clinics because they have become...

Goodbye summer…

Boulder is funny. The weather is so unpredictable. It was rainy and 50 on Saturday (in August??), and yesterday when I started my ride I needed layers due to the chill. It warmed up to 85 degrees by the end of the day

The Dalmation and The Clydesdale…

I’ve been staying with JZ and Mark the past few days. They were kind enough to offer to let me stay until I returned to Atlanta next week. This seems like a normal summer now in many ways; I stayed with them the last 2 summers of Boulder training stints …. so being here again seems almost like coming home, or even deja’vu…

It’s funny, the more I am with them, the more these two really feel like family to me. Living with them is a riot – I am not kidding. The three of us are equal attention-whores so fighting for air time is common around here. It’s pretty funny. Often, if there is a rare moment of silence, I’ll jump in and start talking… it doesn’t take long for one of them to literally interrupt me and start their own blabbering.
“Heeeeeey! I’m telling...

5430 Racing…

Yesterday was the last of the 5430 series (5430 Sports in Boulder is the name of the race series – 5430 for the elevation), the long course race at which I placed 2nd (behind JZ) in 2006. This summer I have had the huge privilege of working for 5430 Sports as the manager of their expos and sponsors. It’s been a different view looking at races from this side of the fence.

Additionally, what an HONOR. Last month I auditioned for and was hired to be the commentator for The Peak (Olympic) race, which will be broadcast on OLN at the end of August. It was a BLAST and I had such a great time doing it. I’m uncertain how the broadcast will turn out, and we’re always our own worst critics of our work, but hopefully I did a decent job. Mostly I wanted to honor the athletes and speak well about their efforts at hand. I hate hearing race commentators who don’t know triathlon – sometimes they say things that are soooo bizarre...

Boulder days…

It’s been fun to have Heather in town for a few days. She’s been busy preparing to defend her title in Louisville at the end of the month, and she looks as fit as I always see her. The other day she did a hard ride up to Ward (a 20-mile climb); I was glad for this and told her to FRY herself so I could keep up on the easy ride I was planning to do with her the next day. I’m allowed to ride for 2-hours, but no more than that…

So, the day after her Ward ride we met up to do an “easy spin” together. We scooped up Amanda Lovato and the three of us rode a great loop through Hygiene. Amanda had ridden with Heather the day before to Ward, so I was relieved the two of them were a bit fried so that I could keep. It was a nice day out, and the girl chit-chat was nice. Normally those two ride like their...