i bet Erin will be envy on how good i look aboard a mountain bike :P

a few photos of a 24h MTB race where i rode as long as there was daylight… i still finished 9th overall ;D

With Lanzarote behind my back, a good easy recovery week i got into the program this week…

Recovery was good, a lot better than i would expect. Post race week i had 2 days of rest after the race and “do what ever you want for workouts but dont get excited” for the rest of it. The first goal of the season was reached witch didnt happened last year for example and that is a good boost. Now its time to think about the mid season goal, The european Long distance Championships, in Prague, where i will represent my country (duuuh). Im going to have a block of fast stuff until the end of the month, i had to change some plans for june. At the end of june i will drive to the pirenees for a altitude training camp before the race and im really into getting very very fast :P

other than this everything is running smoothly and im having a peak in motivation :D

i got here yesteray at around noon. Its a weird island, but the desolating landscape makes if nice.

I Spent money in myself (timex joke) with a last minute car rental since race activity is between club la santa and puerto dela carmen, this way its a bit easier for me as im alone…unfortunately.

I went straing to club la santa to make my registration and came back to puerto del carmen where my hotel is located and around 10 min walk to race start finish. I slept most of the day, at least that was how it felt. woke up 5 am and had a nap while flying to madrid and then from madrid to lanzarote, that made the travel a lot easier but i arrived kinda tyred anyway, after the check in/grocery shoping i slept from around 5 till 8 pm, made some dinner and went to bed at around 10:30…woke up at 7:30 for breakfast. That was a great day of rest :P

Today after a nice breakfast i went for a 40 min swim, did the whole loop of the swim plus some short efforts in the beach. Built my bike and went for a 1:15 spin and rode a small part of the loop. Made a delicious pasta with meat sauce (im a great cook) and relaxed a bit while watching the giro, that was nice. After that i went to the breafing in club la santa and drove a part of the course…and here am i after another home made dinner. It is obvious the i have a lot of free time with this post eh?

Ok about the course, it is tough indeed. I only rode like 10% of it and in total i probably saw 70% of it. Its a course where the ones that had the chance of riding it while training or already know it from previous years have a great advantage, so being new here we will see how it goes, there are some very tricky parts but overall i think i will be just fine.

Im feeling great today after so much sleep so i cant wait until is sunday…

Last weekend i raced my home race, the Lisbon international triathlon (70.3 distance) and i felt A LOT faster than in california witch made me really happy (duuh). I finished in 4:02 around 7 min off the winner and in 9th place. REally strong field in the race including some that will be in lanzarote too…

I was the fastest portuguese too witch is always good :D

this is a stilish photo of the race and here is an oficial video of the race

Im on my easy week before heading out for a 2 weeks training camp held 3km from my place. The 4 weeks will total 104 km of swimming, around 1600km of ridind, 270km of running and around extra 10h of gym etc workouts to a total of around 125h. it looks goodby the numbers :D

Back to the training camp, It will be called training camp but everything will remain around the same, only more work is added and most likely i will have my butt kicked with the fast dudes of the group. One month to my first Half Ironman Distance race here in portugal, in the island of Porto santo, Madeira. That will be my first test of the season and im looking forward to it.

Meanwhile i’m having a hard time with weather, it has been raining all day or almost all day for the past few weeks and the wind is flowing hard too. lots of Yellow Warnings here and there but i have been doing the work as usual, it just makes it a bit harder :P

The good news about training is my new swim PB on the 400m!!! 5:20 in a 3*400 set on wednesday, last time i remember i only was abble to do around 5:30-5:35 so this is nice to see. i only want to carry a good swim speed that i usually get in the winter to the racing season and let the legs do the rest :D