the bike is ready to go.... in racing outfit! my new selle italia SLR with my own made bottle holder systeme aero front drink..... thank you to kylie, mike, paul and Rich....all of you made this disc possible...a last minutes urgency!!! thank you so much.... i truly appreciate! it s a disc cover from wheelbuilder.com attached to a 808. This is the fastest clincher disc in the world and i m serious... for 80$...you get that cover to a 808 and it does test faster than any expensive disc money can buy...
me and sergio were in a good mood at the press conference, we joke a bit and had a great time. It s always a bit of a stressfull time to do these things but we handle it well.... we also give a interview me and sergio together and it should be on youtube soon...and should be funny!
Michellie, the one i will be trying to beat on race day.... she as beaten me many times.... we went to YC for a amazing lunch..... i piled the food! wow... i look retard! I made this shirt because i was thinking it was actually funny, i was going to wear it at the press conference but decided to put my blue shirt on top as it s important to be professional and reconise my sponsors in these kind of events.... 2XU, Cervelo, PsTriathlon, TheBikeBarn!
thank you very much to everyone that is writing me messages before the race, i dont have the time right now to answer them all but i really like to receive them! thank you.... it s really welcome before the race!
I was at the race site for a few hours this morning and got a swim in, then register and meet some cool people.
Tomorow will be a press conference at 11am and a pro panel question/answer... please come say hi!
A big thank you to kylie for hug help.... i cracked my disc cover and wheelbuilder is sending me one extremly fast with the help of kylie so i can ride it on race day!
i can feel the tension going up... lots of fast athletes around... very intimidating but me and sergio still found the courage to have our pictures taken with this really fast girl.... not sure who she is but she sure look fast...and serious also... she didnt even smile!!!!
today was a quick 45 minutes run, a 1h45 ride and pack my life in the paseo to make it to phoenix. I m in phx now at sophie's condo and heading out to bed...
here s my reflection on the last few months and las cruces
the new way to carrie my bottle on race day. i have change a bit the bottle holder but that is my set up on new hed bars...... it is very well shelter.... sergio and paulo making modification to the profile bars..... the hacksaw is a precious tool here at the house! Sergio also cut one of the leg of his fork as the fork is really strong and will still be plenty stiff for the bike... it is of course more aero with only one blade and lighter! me taking a break and tired of working on the bike.
ok.... so i have some extra time and wonder how to save a watt or two to help me out next weekend. I need it... there is so many great athlete on the start list and many of them great cyclist.... lets see what i can do to pimp my p3c. the cable routing..... behind the stem to make it as clean as possible pic of the hooker brake.... and the new Hed Vantage 8 bar and S bend.
well... that s about it...lots of work...many hours for probably not much of a saving but... i m happy... my bike is cool now... a few more modification to come .... lots of fun
today was a brick workout. 2h ride and 30 min run... i m now relaxing and getting everything ready as i will leave for phoenix on tuesday. Then, florida and hopefully boulder!
So... i m confuse again. After ironman arizona, Paulo told me he wants me to do a cycle of training in altitude to get ready for ironman lake placid. He told me that Boulder should be the place. I never heard of this place and after googling Boulder...this is what i got??????
well, it sure look quiet and green but dosnt seems so exciting. Why does he want me to go there? it just look like a big rock? Where will i stay???? maybe i should get a dog so it would more fun??? i can see there is plenty of grass so i guess i will use my north face expedition tent to live in!
anyway, i still have a few weeks to figure out where this boulder is located....!!!!!
today was a hard swim, 6X400m for 4km total and a run that was very slow....
i also did a lot of work on my bike to get it race ready. Tomorow is my last brick before the race and i have to be on race set up.... i got a cool aero brake, hed bars, new cable aero routing and bottle positionning.....
I m not a member of the team timex.... i wasnt invited at there camp and didnt get to participate in there celebration...... but my good friend sergio got me a cool watch!!!! YEAH, my first watch i have ever own! today was cloudy and i could not use the sun to time my ride. I usualy calculate the movement(in degrees) of the sun from the start of my ride till the end to find out how long i rode but you cant do that when it s cloudy!!!!! the watch was really handy!!! Sergio also told me that it can controle my ipod so i tried to listen to some song during my ride but it didnt work. I m not sure what was wrong, but sergio told me i need to bring the ipod also on the ride for it to work... not sure i really understand all this technology but i will read the instruction tomorow.
Today was a brick workout, a 3h ride with some z3 follow by a 40min run. It went ok and we had the rest of the day to relax. We went to the coffee shop and tonight, as i was really bored, i decided to initiate paulo and sergio to the game of curling.
Now, we dont have ice here, and dont have to normal rock but we do have a brown carpet and golf balls so that was all we needed to start a very exciting game. I won the first game against paulo by the score of 10-2. He isnt really fast at understanding the rules but he still manage to score twice.
Here s a pic and a ESPN coverage of the game!!!!
also, a big thank you to Steve and Ann Hed that have sended me some toys to put on my bike for ironman arizona. I always like there aerobars and mine was pretty old and they offer to put me on a brand new vantage 8 aero base bar and the carbon flip light extension(s-bend). I will finish installation tomorow and take some pictures!!!! thank you Steve and Ann!!!!
the bike is ready to go.... in racing outfit!
my new selle italia SLR with my own made bottle holder systeme
aero front drink.....
thank you to kylie, mike, paul and Rich....all of you made this disc possible...a last minutes urgency!!! thank you so much.... i truly appreciate! it s a disc cover from wheelbuilder.com attached to a 808. This is the fastest clincher disc in the world and i m serious... for 80$...you get that cover to a 808 and it does test faster than any expensive disc money can buy...
me and sergio were in a good mood at the press conference, we joke a bit and had a great time. It s always a bit of a stressfull time to do these things but we handle it well.... we also give a interview me and sergio together and it should be on youtube soon...and should be funny!
Michellie, the one i will be trying to beat on race day.... she as beaten me many times....
we went to YC for a amazing lunch..... i piled the food!
wow... i look retard! I made this shirt because i was thinking it was actually funny, i was going to wear it at the press conference but decided to put my blue shirt on top as it s important to be professional and reconise my sponsors in these kind of events.... 2XU, Cervelo, PsTriathlon, TheBikeBarn!
