The Season In Review

My season is over. I've been doing a lot of relaxing, kicking back, and letting loose lately. Since returning from Worlds I've worked out just as often as I've gone out to the bars, which is to say twice. I'm able to focus on school work a lot more and hopefully I'll get motivated soon to organize my room, my eating habits, and my weekly schedule so that when November 1st rolls around it will be easy to hop back into a full training load. My focus this winter will be to keep my legs healthy so I can get a full course of run base training in.

Highlights of this season:
- PRs for 500y open swim, 1.5k tri swim, 10k tri run, 5k tri run, 5k open run, Olympic tri
- Tied my PR for 40k tri bike
- PR for fastest avg. bike speed during a tri
- Won my last bike race as a Cat4 in a most glorious fashion, and the next day I...
- ...Met my goal for my first half marathon
- Moab training camp
- First time Mt. Evans ascent
- Perfect race at Age Group Nationals
- Going to Worlds in Hamburg with my buds
- Celebrating post-race in Hamburg with my buds

It was a good season. Coach Matt, thanks for helping me do it all!

Worlds

I had an excellent time in Hamburg, Germany for the ITU World Championships. The race itself was ok, not my best, but nothing to complain about. My swim was about 40 seconds slower than what I was shooting for, but I still came out of the water with all the US kids I normally run to T1 with. The run to T1 was about 400m so it added a good amount of time to my swim, but I think I came out of the water somewhere in between 20 and 21 minutes. I spent most of my time on the bike avoiding draft-packs, of which there was an abundance. It was really unfortunate to see all of the drafting going on, but I guess it's harder to avoid when there are so many closely matched racers on the course. Not having any real run training since mid July really put a damper on my run, but I still broke 40 minutes, so I am not too dissapointed. My IT band started hurting at 6k, but I didn't think twice about it.

I celebrated the end of my racing season with some of the best people (very talented athletes as well). The Age Group World Champion, Ben Collins, came out with us to celebrate his graduation to the pro ranks, effective that night at midnight. We ran into some American U23 and Elite athletes at a pub in the redlight district and had ourselves a good time. We stumbled back to our hotel at 2am and I packed in time to catch a cab to the airport at 4am. I was exhausted to say the least.

21:56 1500m swim (+400m run)
1:00:26 40k bike
39:12 10k run

44th in the 20-24 Age Group
134th overall







I just wanted to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all the people who helped me make it to Germany: Mom, Dad, Grammy, Matty, Gabe, the ENTIRE CU Tri Team, James, Joe and Dave Corman. Thank you all, it was an amazing experience!