Santa Fe Sprint Triathlon: A few pics

Matty G and I pre-race!

Letting Matt open up the gap

Run, Bike, Swim... Heading into the pool

Old Course Record ('10)- 57:59
Eric Lujan ('09)- 58:40
Rance ('11)- 56:17

June Update

Since my last post I have done two more sprints, my second intermediate distance tri, and a lot of ups and downs with training. For a chunk of the last two months my training has been, not so good. I was able to complete all of the planned workouts, but the quality suffered and it definitely showed during my races. I’m not sure if it was diet, staying up late every night, lack of recovery, or the 105+ degree temperatures that I was training in everyday making me suffer so badly. My last two races felt like a straight grind and I felt that I was running strictly on fumes from my early season training.  Running 5ks almost two minutes slower than usual is something I don’t want to go through again. Thankfully my training has picked up after resting most of last week. Things are looking good and STRONG! This is great news seeing that the three biggest races of my season are just around the corner. Everything that I’ve done to this point of my season won’t even matter if I’m not able to produce in the next three races. Safe training

July 16^th City of Santa Fe Sprint Triathlon

July 31^st Cochiti Intermediate Tri

August 6^th Socorro Chile Harvest Sprint

Some photos from the last few months…

 Only the second 10k I've raced... Very happy with the end result

 Wind has became the norm this season for SE New Mexico

Some say breaking the hour mark at the Milkman Triathlon can be somewhat magical. I wasn't feeling it after a 19 minute 5k!

2010- Neil Segel.... 2011- Rance Irvin