After a good block of training, some rest and four mountain bike rides I was headed to Maui for my first Xterra in two years. Due to National Team and Olympic qualifying I have had to take a miss on all the Xterra fun over the last two years. So I had hung my bike up and said I wouldn’t …

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After smashing myself good in Muskoka I needed some time to recover and do some training. However, it was only three weeks till Dallas and then only three more weeks till Xterra World Champs and Clearwater. So coach Lance Waston and I decided that Xterra Worlds Oct 26 and Clearwater 70.3 Worlds Nov 8 were the key races and training …

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I will keep this one short as it is a long race. The day was wet, the course was very hilly but the air was warm. The swim was fast in parts but comfortable but I couldn’t catch Simon Lessings feet in the water but I out ran him to transition and got on the bike first. I road at …

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With this being the fourth Lifetime race I was getting familiar with how the races play out but I was also getting a little detrained after 5 races in 10 weeks. Not able to do much interval work in between races I was losing intensity. I was also trying to build some base as I was doing Muskoka 70.3 the …

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Following Kelowna was the third Lifetime Fitness series race and I had figured out the whole non drafting TT biking thing a bit more by then. I had a solid swim bike getting off behind the leaders by a minute or so in 6th or 7th and set to work running them down. I worked my way up until I …

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After returning from Charlotte I headed off to Kelowna for Nationals the same weekend as the Olympic triathlon. This was a bit hard knowing I wanted to be racing elsewhere and where I was racing there were the top guys missing. Regardless I put my mind to having a strong race and pushing my fitness up for the rest of …

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I was really impressed with how Blue so early in our partnership wanted to get me into the tunnel so I could improve my position from what I rode in Nfld. We also did some photos for the 2009 Catalog and current and upcoming ads (Upside Down ad in Nov Triathlete). So I headed to Charlotte North Carolina for a …

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