Team Swell: The Flying Fish

The Sri Chinmoy Triple Ti is one of the greatest events Canberra has on it's sporting calendar. It has everything endurance junkies (like myself) need to get off!! The race offers competitors the adventure of off road triathlon in a team format which, lets face it, if you're into talking to people rather then going hammer and tong for several hours on end alone this event is unreal!

I raced with some good buddies of mine in TEAM SWELL: The Flying Fish. We all had a solid day in our designated legs (9 legs shared with 6 team members). Stand out performances went to Dave Simpendorph with the fastest ride split for ride 2 against some top riders and Ross Hamilton who charged home with the second fastest run split for the last run.

Hopefully I'll have some pics from the event shortly.

1 The team with no name
21:53 1:33:26 1:20:48 44:00 1:55:20 46:33 16:58 1:08:36 1:06:03 9 : 1 3 : 3 7

2 Stuff the Puffs
21:43 1:39:09 1:28:01 42:17 1:56:51 47:37 15:35 1:07:43 1:02:04 9 : 2 1 : 0 0

3 Team Swell: Flying Fish
23:29 1:54:43 1:35:10 56:14 1:47:57 54:40 21:08 1:20:37 1:01:31 10:15: 29
Ross Anton Ross Ross H Dave Burn Steve Anton Ross H

ccc crit

Last week i raced the Canberra Cycling Club Crit. I felt pretty good considering i haven't raced one of these style of races for nearly 2 years! Apparently there was 290 starters through all categories! Which is a big sign that cycling here in Canberra is pumping!!

B Grade Men - 15 mins + 2 laps (39 starters)

1
Martin Mullin
Velo Canberra
2
Simon Dwyer
V-Mobile
3
Ross Blake
Juice Plus+/FiTREKS

Feeling it

Well my last two planned hit outs have both been passed in for safer training workouts. Firstly the Canberra cycling club canned the crit on Wednesday evening due to bad weather conditions and second i decided to not race the Majura Vineyards Classic on Saturday for i have a sore plantafacsia (sole of foot).

I'm not too fussed over not getting these events in because I've been pretty busted up this last week. I've really suffered with the addition of extra klms!

My foot and my fatigue levels should all be OK in a few days. I've got 2 easy/rest days starting today with a massage and hot and cold session planned. I've been down this road before and i know not to keep pushing it when you actually need rest.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
-Eileen Caddy

5 weeks till the 1/2 IRONMAN!

Healthy regards

Rosko

Training Update

It's been my goal to update this blog weekly however sometimes life gets it the way. Which could be a good thing considering the chasers blog page is blogsarefornerds.com!

So what have i been up to training wise?

Last week saw the end of "phase 2" and yeah you guessed it I'm now 3 days into "phase 3" and feeling it already! It feels good to know that by the end of the next four weeks i will have taken a big step towards getting my act together on an athletic level. It's amazing how much harder 9 sessions per week is compared to 6.....ouch!!

The biggest thing I'm finding hard to deal with is anticipating how my body will react to certain sessions. Some days I'm feeling great and almost like I'm not doing enough and other days I'm a busted man.. I'm learning that nothing can take the place of consistency and patience....

I had a great week end of training that included 3.5hrs on the bike, 1.5hrs in the gym, 30mins in the pool and 80mins of running. I felt great all week end and i pay this to keeping it simple over the last few months.

Anyway better be off. People to train etc.

Racing in the Canberra Cycling Club Criterium tonight. I will post the results over the next few days. I will post some pics from training shortly.

Healthy regards

Ross