Too Much Chocolate And Not Enough Sun

Above is footage of a skinny bearded scrub who has bad fashion sense and needs to get some sunshine. Coach CT often takes video of us while swimming at the PTC. My swimming has been feeling pretty good and I swam a 23:32 for 2000m 'hard tempo' in practice a few days after this video was taken. Maybe I would be faster if I shaved and wore a Speedo LZR swimsuit?

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's PTC swim practice. Coach CT came down to 'the lab' (my basement where the indoor riding and geeking on the CompuTrainer Lab takes place) to look at my positioning on my new road bike and old time trial bike. We made some big changes to the time trial bike and some tweaks to the new road bike. I tried to pawn off some of the giant chocolate egg, but Coach CT surprisingly refused to eat some despite loving dark choco. Bre dislikes dark choco as well, so I am still sitting on the largest chocolate egg in the history of this world (see below post). Who wants chocolate? Please take it from me.

Due to this chocolate surplus issue, Wise Grasshopper Coach CT implemented a 'challenge' theme at swim prac this morning. He set a swim challenge for each of us, and if we were successful, a coveted piece of chocolate from the giant egg would be presented at the end of practice. My 'challenge' was to hold a sub-17 front crawl stroke for the entire practice. I failed miserably--no chocolate for me. Actually, nobody got any chocolate--not because they failed like me--but because I forgot to bring the chocolate to swimming! That won't happen tomorrow. And tomorrow I shall not fail. Bring the next challenge Coach CT--I am going to 'go to town' and 'Champ It' :-)

In other news, I leave Sunday for the warmth and sunshine of Clermont, Florida. As you can see from the above video, I am in dire need of some sun. The hideous beard is now gone, I just returned from the hair salon, and I even have a new drag suit. It must be spring. The racing season must be on the horizon. The cobwebs need to be shaken off...and there are a lot of them--I am far from race worthy fitness...

I will finally get a chance to ride outside on the new steed. The last time I road outside (other than a couple of MTB treks, was at the San Francisco Triathlon in mid-November. It has been a long winter and I am itching to have an enjoyable week of base training in more ideal temperatures.

I will be staying at the luxurious Orange Lake Resort. This will be the home of an annual LPC Triathlon Camp beginning March of 2009. I will be firming up the details for next year's camp and also mapping out all of the routes. I already know the area well--as Clermont has been my base training camp for the past five years.

I will be accompanied by my pop, and LPC athlete's Dennis Masse, Keith Henry, and Shelley McKee. Good friends Bill Davies and Doug Crowe will also be in town for a big week of training in paradise. I will be joining in on some of the sessions of an excellent triathlon camp put on by London's Coach Sheri Fraser.