2009 Retrospective  

Some of my bloggie friends seem to have had an awesome 2009 race season. My very best good friend Craig Alexander repeated at KONA. (Actually I’m sure Craig hasn’t a clue who I am, but he still repeated in KONA) Fellow blogger Charisa placed in her age group in KONA and came home with a salad bowl, and a pro card. (She drops by my blog from time to time and leaves me nice comments)

Although my year turned out better than Tiger Woods, to be truthful, for me 2009 was a little bit of a letdown. After a 70.3 PB in Corner Brook in 2008, and a trip to Clearwater, I was keen to ride the wave of success into 2009, focus on our local events, set some more Personal Bests, and maybe if the stars aligned, place in my agegroup at at least 1 event.

To execute, I focused on bike training over the winter. I thought I was well on my way with a good solid training season on the trainer and at spin classes, as well as a ride outdoors when weather permitted. I am still convinced that I improved my power last winter. Trouble was that I also increased my body mass. (That’s secret cyclist code for I got fat) Not obese mind you, just 10 or 12 pounds over my race weight from the year before.

As a result, I was off on all my time goals, and didn’t come near placing in any of my planned races. My targets were sub 44:00 for the downtown 10k. A mid to late season sub 35:00 for a 20k ITT. And sub 2:35 for our local triathlon.

Needless to say, I was nowhere near any of these. In fact, when we started off our ITT season, I couldn’t even manage to break 40:00 for the 20k ITT. I knew I would improve over the summer, but I also knew I was in trouble.

So here I am again planning out my summer racing season, full of ambitious goals. If anyone is interested in what I have in mind for this season, check back soon.