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athletes 4 weeks of training camp 81 total workouts 1 kitchen 2 bedrooms somehow we managed to avoid killing each other or even getting anything other than hangry the other 3 guys all shared 1 bedroom kevin being the last to arrive was relegated to the closet which he aptly named the smush room sexual reference to smush e x lets smush our privates together rather than cramped i m smushed reference though i m pretty sure no girls ever went in the smush room they would not have enjoyed the slow deflation of kevin s air mattress had they fallen prey to his incredible charm i m not sure why we didn t all team up and offer to patch that mattress meh maybe next time he survived thanks to naps on the floor the first week or two of a training camp usually go really well nailing every workout as time goes on however the daily non stop push starts to wear you down and you start to see a few really awful workouts i love it all though it s truly amazing what you can do physically when you simply don t think about not doing it you simply go and do it no questions i think that s the ticket with hard training that never really ends you wake up in the morning and you just don t let thoughts of not doing the workout enter your mind yes i often think about how i would rather just sleep longer or maybe just skip the afternoon 50 minute run in favor of a nice relaxing dinner but never do i entertain thoughts of actually doing that you have to go out and try it is unbelievable how things can change 5 minutes into a workout i m sure you ve all had those surprise workouts where you re 5 sheets to the wind tired not drunk what does that mean anyway sailing reference yet you pop off one of your better sessions if you haven t experienced this you re missing out at the end of the day when i look back to the morning and realize what s been done despite the fatigue this is what really makes me smile most of the time anyway sometimes i just think thank gawd that s over even before coach paulo as an age grouper this was one of my strengths that saw me improve from year to year doing workouts that i didn t want to do pouring rain middle of the night after work i used to work 3pm 11pm 3rd workout of the day time to run 15 km home in any case right now this is the start of our 3rd year with paulo and the squad admittedly we miss some great camps but i m always reminded of how to get the most out of myself when i m at the camps it would be tough for me to operate in a camp like setting year round i really need my solo time when out training i even found this to be the case at this past camp after the first week or so i was doing most of our no coach in attendance runs by myself i really enjoy running by myself not that i don t like the guys i had to train with they re awesome i m just not a run and talk kind of guy for more than a couple runs per week workouts also become a lot more variable near the end of a camp whereas on my own i seem to be able to sustain a high workload for longer anyway 2 3 and sometimes even 4 week training camps every two or three months have been great for three winters now this is how the weekly training has progressed with no crazy changes in weekly volume we re very consistent year round but definitely a bit higher load as we build into races week 1 wow this feels really good i could do way more training than this no problem i m amazing this year week 2 ok fair enough this is the right amount of work that s sustainable leading up to race builds week 3 damn i m not sure this is very healthy don t i get a free day at some point week 4 oh man i suck how am i supposed to win an ironman when i suck this bad followed by yelling at your wife when she tells you that you missed a 50 in the pool week 5 ok i got this i can handle this week 6 through week 52 you stop thinking beyond the day or week at hand you just go out and get the training done then race damn hard to express that work and turn it into a good result that s what matters getting the results share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading posted in triathlon training ten terrific things thursday tttt 16 december 13 2012 3 comments another week has gone by at our training camp in san diego and it has been a good one each day goes something like this sleep eat quietly train words from coach eat with more conversation joke around on the way to session 2 train joke around less because some of us are hangry the kitchen dance with 5 calorie deprived people trying to make something to eat chill visit critique each other s swim videos nap drag our asses to session 3 train roll out our legs eat sit around the living room all trying to do stuff on 5 separate computers annoyed the router cuts out every 5 min sleep the squad at the lovely poway community pool this may sound like the life but the days are full we re working hard and i am ready to hit the sack at 8 pm for which i get teased but it s all about performance boys anyhoo roomates are definitely good for new tttt material even if our schedule is bad for remembering which day of the week it is so without further ado here are this weeks ten terrific things 1 hill repeats at lake poway this workout has been a staple of our sand diego camp 15 min wu 5 7 x steep hill repeats on 2 min 15 min hard run keeping hill sprint form 5 7 x steep hill repeats on 2 min 15 min run it s a great session we have a perfect hill at the lake and dog walkers to either cheer or get annoyed at us for being all scary and running fast ahhhhh opera voice nice light on the way to heaven a k a hill repeats you can see the trail in line with the right buoy but it continues further up that s the repeat section view from the bench where the repeats end plenty of trail options 2 david mccolm i was going to write david mccolm photography www davidmccolm com but in addition to being an incredibly talented photographer he is pretty terrific in his own right we were lucky enough to hang out with this whistler based wonder at volcanoes national park and our new webpage to be revealed soon features some of the amazing shots he took here is the man himself and a few of his photos 3 business time most people seem to have seen this video but it s worth watching again two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven we ve also been enjoying random singing of team building exercise night tonight on van trips to training venues 4 this scanning electron microscope sem image of a the larva of a bluebottle fly protophormia sp also known as a maggot clearly the creators of star wars has access to scanning electron microscopes because the sand people look a lot like this anyway maggots though totally gross are kinda cool as you can see they have tiny teeth like fangs extending from their mouths and sterilized versions of these bad boys are used to clean wounds they feed on the dead tissue leaving healthy living tissue untouched and their saliva contain anti bacterial chemicals yes a maggot science primer just what you always wanted maggot very magnified sand person cross with jabba the hutt and bingo 5 skiing i love skiing telemark is my thing though i ve downhill skied since i was 5 and it is one thing that i really miss as a triathlete i know that they are not mutually exclusive but i d hate to have a season ruined by some stupid injury from a ski crash because of course it s no fun to just do weeny blue runs anyway this video satisfies my ski lust and the picture below it makes me laugh because i was always worried about that as a kid my worst t bar experience was when i was spring skiing in fernie bc and i just had farmer john snow pants on over a turtleneck i was goofing around got the bar hooked on my snow pant strap and got dragged up the hill on my face http vimeo com 54035990 6 earth as art it s definitely worth checking out this pdf and the interesting descriptions of the amazing formations seen from nasa satellites http www nasa gov pdf 703154main_earth_art ebook pdf here are some examples carnegie lake australia von karman vortices south pacific ocean grand bahama bank atlantic ocean 7 gravity light uses the energy generated by resisting the fall of a heavy bag to generate light this is a very cool idea as a way to replace kerosene lamps in much of the developing world check out the website here http www indiegogo com projects 282006 8 this cat friend vs dog friend video captures the pretty steriotypical versions of both especially the aloof mean ish cat but i got a good laugh out of it 9 my click elite shoulder bag i love this bag see above photo with david it is perfect for day tripping travelling or just wearing around like a purse but purse is a horrible word so it s awesome that it s a bag lots of good pockets a padded zippered area for camera gear or a small lap top check the website out here http www clikelite com 10 my triathlon squad mates and coach paulo great to have a solid group of people to train obsess over swim technique and occasionally go out to dinner with camp 1 of 2013 has been terrific one more week to go share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading posted in gear random weirdness triathlon training tags lake poway ten terrific things the triathlon squad tttt ten terrific things thursday tttt 15 december 6 2012 6 comments at long last another tttt hurrah scream all my fans thanks you two i got to post 14 140 terrific things that s a lot of awesomeness but then totally ceased with my weekly posts those thursdays seemed to come around more and more quickly and i found it hard to get interesting photos think of clever things to say and feel motivated to write while building for worlds and at the end of the race season but enough excuses on to this week s tttts 1 random bike art i love riding my bicycle and appreciate cool artistic bikey things like and and painted on a freeway overpass 2 the fact that my twitter friends can have a great debate about the spelling of the iconic canadian winter hat i ve always known this key element of my wardrobe as a toque but apparently the french canadian spelling is tuque and since it s a french word and more google images show up when you use tuque i may have to modify my spelling it does kind of wreck the brilliant idea for a photo that i ve had by a sign for the toquerville cemetery though it s a small town that we often ride through in utah and the sign cracks me up is that guy wearing a tuque the classic knit ear flap tuque if this had no logo i d call it a fisherman tuque if it had a bobble on top it would definitely not be a fisherman tuque you mean i m wearing a tuque not a toque 3 this video i don t approve of road rage i think we all just need to chill out be courteous to other drivers and realize that losing 30 sec here and there is really nothing to freak out about that said we ve all been angered by jerks on the road and this video is quite satisfying the music and the little arrows are perfect 4 not having owned tv for the past 6 years or so yes there are some cool informative entertaining shows but the majority is total garbage and the commercials hurt my brain there is a tv in our rental and i was pretty stoked that the original star wars was on until i starting taking commercial vs actual show time splits the average was 9 min of show ranged from 6 12 with 6 min always at least 6 of commercials that s ridiculous i realize that it s generally considered pretty terrifically lame to be all like i don t watch tv and i admit to wasting plenty of time on the internet still i m pretty happy with the hours of my life i ve spent doing other things and i recommend you do the following 5 this meme brilliant 6 floor space while we love our rv and the ease that a home on wheels lends to our life it sure is nice to have a bit more indoor open area on which to sprawl after hard workouts and to use for rolling out our legs we are at a training camp in san diego for a month and are sharing the spacious white carpeted area with 3 other squad mates this also helps us appreciate our rv life i have to say though that even with the grumpiness that hard training brings the guys are being pretty terrific i haven t even had to hide in my room very often 7 maru the cat we love cats we miss manah so much and this cat has a pretty terrific obsession with boxes if you are one of the few people that haven t enjoyed a box and maru video you re welcome 8 apple pie and ice cream bonk breaker style oh yeah this is clearly my dessert because the amount of ice cream is wholly inadequate for it to be a trevor worthy treat 9 coffee if this has been on a tttt before it deserves to be here again coffee is magic make me actually able to cope with all the training i have to do today juice one of our new squad mates swears by dunkin doughnuts coffee we try not to hold this against him 10 chemistry cat memes oh yes you can satisfy your science geek side and guffaw guffaw cheezy joke side and be a crazy cat person all at once woot share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading posted in random weirdness training tags heather wurtele terrific things tttt mourning manah october 22 2012 16 comments a big part of our life for the past 10 years has been our awesome cat manah we got her as a kitten while studying in victoria she came to norway when i was doing phd work there and she has been all over north american when we committed to our lives as nomadic rv dwellers she was an awesome outdoor adventurer always smart enough not to stray too far and make her way back to the rv wherever it was parked she d follow me for strolls if it was quiet but mostly she came and went as she pleased through her cat door she was playful and loving a purr machine who was always up for a tummy rub complete with super cute curled back toes for the past while she was being a bit more lethargic than usual but we sort of just thought well she s 10 when i took her to the vet to get her shots updated for boarding before kona right away they were like your cat is really sick she had a fever and yellowing around her gums and in her ears and so they did blood tests and took x rays massive liver failure fluid around her organs white blood cell count off the charts decline of no return i was in total shock the crazy thing was that she was still pretty normal meowing insanely if we motioned to the butter shelf in the fridge jumping on the bed for cuddles hanging out outside with us animals are so tough and good at hiding discomfort we took her home for the weekend but she yowled in pain while peeing and we had to put her down before flying to kona it was a very rough time the other day trevor bumped the cat door and i looked up expectantly sigh i really miss my cat cuddles you could be having a super stressful day but she d make you stop pause giver her some pets and things would alwa...