The first few days of March, here in Arizona were great, training was going well, I was getting great feedback from my athletes about their training, and I was getting some private tutoring WKO+ lessons from Joe Friel.
The weekend of March 6th , Training Bible Coaching had a booth at the TRIFEST EXPO in Tucson, the expo was outstanding, lots of people stopped by to see Jim Vance, Joe Friel, and myself. The only problem was that on Wed night before the Expo started I became sick with a stomach virus, probably the worst virus I ever had. I lost 8 lbs in 3 days and by the time I got to TRIFEST I was very weak and unable to really enjoy the festivities. Joe and his wife Joyce stayed at our place for the weekend, but they kept their distance from me and my wife Sandy, who, by the way, ended up getting this virus. I did start feeling better by Tues off the next week, just in time for my client Richard Costello of Las Vegas to come train with me and also attend our TBC Tucson Camp. At the camp we had coaches Adam Zucco, Jim Vance, Rob Kelly, Joe Friel, Lindsay Zucco , Jeff Vicaro. and myself. We had over 20 athletes from all over N. America an 2 European pro triathletes attend the camp. We rode all the famous Tucson loops, Gates Pass Mt. Lemmon, and the west part of Tucson out in the desert. The coaches led groups in swim instruction, cycling skills, run technique, etc. Most of the athletes were from out of state and they loved the AZ weather which was in the 80s, and of course loved all the places we had them train at. Tucson is truly the place to train in winter and spring when getting ready for the season I'm very lucky to be spending time here in 2009.
I'll continue the March update in my next post.
See links to Southern AZ rides:
http://www.roadbikerides.com/ride/view/mt_lemmon_/117
http://www.roadbikerides.com/ride/view/gates_pass__mccain_loop/113
Thanks for checking in.~tom
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Catching Up- Feb 2009
Sorry about the delay on getting back to my blog. Due of travel, starting up new coaching clients, conducting training camps, TBC Annual meeting, getting educated on WKO software,training an average of 17 to 22 hours a week, I finally have time to get back to the blog.
Our trip x-country was very fast, we got from NJ to AZ in 3 days. The first night we stayed in the Knoxville, TN area, the second night we made it to Abilene , TX. Once in Abilene it's easy to make AZ by mid afternoon since no one goes slower than 90 miles per hour in W. Texas. I think I missed my calling as a Indy car driver!! We arrived at our home in Tubac , AZ on Feb 3, where it was 75 degrees. It was hard to get any serious house work done the first few days here in AZ since the weather was so perfect and all I wanted to do was get on my bike and ride, which I did. My training picked up considerably the month of Feb since just about every day in Feb was above normal temps in high 70s, low 80s, which made it easy to swim, bike and run without bad weather interfering with training.
On Feb 13th I met Joe Friel in Phoenix and we flew to our annual Training Bible Coaching meeting in the Chicago area. Most of our TBC coaches were present for the weekend,which was quite educational, with lots of coaching topics covered including WKO presentations by Joe. It was a very upbeat weekend to be around all of our coaches and to spend time with Joe picking his brain on coaching topics. By the time Sunday arrived I was ready to fly back to AZ since Joe and I ran in 3 degree weather on Sunday morning. It was cool to be sitting n O'Hare and knowing I was flying back to sunny AZ instead of NJ in Feb.
The rest of Feb flew by, the athletes I coach were all moving into heavy duty training and lots of interaction took place between us in the last few weeks of the month. This was an exciting month for me and my athletes since most of our interaction was centered on how we were going to accomplish our objectives to reach these race goals. My athletes have some lofty goals such as having personal bests at both Ironman and Half-IM distance races, qualifying for Hawaii IM, qualifying for Team USA for World's, and moving up from sprint distance racing to Olympic distance racing. One of the athletes even set a goal to complete the Ironman distance on 3 consecutive days, more on that in a later post. I have an incredible group of athletes this year, all self -motivated and not afraid to take a risk and stretch their goals. This race season is going to be awesome for me as coach.
The remainder of Feb was very smooth, both Sandy and I become adjusted to the Tubac, AZ lifestyle, I became more organized with my coaching, training, and everyday responsibilities. We are living a dream down here in Tubac, I'm very lucky to have what I have, and without Sandy I wouldn't be living this dream. Feb was wonderful.
I'll post a March update this week.
Our trip x-country was very fast, we got from NJ to AZ in 3 days. The first night we stayed in the Knoxville, TN area, the second night we made it to Abilene , TX. Once in Abilene it's easy to make AZ by mid afternoon since no one goes slower than 90 miles per hour in W. Texas. I think I missed my calling as a Indy car driver!! We arrived at our home in Tubac , AZ on Feb 3, where it was 75 degrees. It was hard to get any serious house work done the first few days here in AZ since the weather was so perfect and all I wanted to do was get on my bike and ride, which I did. My training picked up considerably the month of Feb since just about every day in Feb was above normal temps in high 70s, low 80s, which made it easy to swim, bike and run without bad weather interfering with training.
On Feb 13th I met Joe Friel in Phoenix and we flew to our annual Training Bible Coaching meeting in the Chicago area. Most of our TBC coaches were present for the weekend,which was quite educational, with lots of coaching topics covered including WKO presentations by Joe. It was a very upbeat weekend to be around all of our coaches and to spend time with Joe picking his brain on coaching topics. By the time Sunday arrived I was ready to fly back to AZ since Joe and I ran in 3 degree weather on Sunday morning. It was cool to be sitting n O'Hare and knowing I was flying back to sunny AZ instead of NJ in Feb.
The rest of Feb flew by, the athletes I coach were all moving into heavy duty training and lots of interaction took place between us in the last few weeks of the month. This was an exciting month for me and my athletes since most of our interaction was centered on how we were going to accomplish our objectives to reach these race goals. My athletes have some lofty goals such as having personal bests at both Ironman and Half-IM distance races, qualifying for Hawaii IM, qualifying for Team USA for World's, and moving up from sprint distance racing to Olympic distance racing. One of the athletes even set a goal to complete the Ironman distance on 3 consecutive days, more on that in a later post. I have an incredible group of athletes this year, all self -motivated and not afraid to take a risk and stretch their goals. This race season is going to be awesome for me as coach.
The remainder of Feb was very smooth, both Sandy and I become adjusted to the Tubac, AZ lifestyle, I became more organized with my coaching, training, and everyday responsibilities. We are living a dream down here in Tubac, I'm very lucky to have what I have, and without Sandy I wouldn't be living this dream. Feb was wonderful.
I'll post a March update this week.
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