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August 1st – WOW!!! Top Gun was a success, we had 22 athletes competing including 8 first timers... The result were visible, 6 awards, including 2 first places... Way to go, we are all soo happy and proud of you....
July 25th – This is it... Today was our last "mock Tri" before the real thing next week. Everyone looks great and well prepared for the race. Top Gun beginner's beware, our Eight2tri group will be showing what we are all about...
July 18th – Top Gun beginners clinic. click HERE to watch a video from today.
July 15th – Today we did a great ride around Long Boat Key and Lido Beach with a feel standing intervals, just to get the legs fired up….
July 11th – Today we had our first “mock tri” for our beginners group. We started with a quick transition clinic and rolled right into the mock tri…What a perfect day to have fun at the beach. Their official first race is in 3 weeks, Top Gun triathlon here we come… Click here to watch a 2 min video of today’s training.
July 8th – Today we did a great group run with several fast tempo pace intervals. This weekend we will have a transition clinic and the first “mock” race for the beginners… Top gun (graduation race) in 3 weeks!!!
July 5th – Today we had our 2nd annual BEER MILE…. The basic rule is DRINK a beer and run ¼ mile x 4… first one to the finish line wins…. Enough said.
July 4th – Happy 4th of July. Today we moved our workout “inland” to Lakewood Ranch area to avoid the traffic on the beaches. We had great bike workout with included a 20 TT (time Trial) and some group riding skills.
July 1st – Rain rain go away, please come back another day, because we want to play…. WELL!!!! We had to cancel tonight’s class due to the weather, we were ok with the wind and the rain, but dodging lightning would make our intervals VERY interesting… and the weather guy only called for 40% chance of rain for this time, what do you think??
June 27th – Yet another brick Saturday!!! Followed by our first group open water swim and the gulf was a little rough. Today the weather was not that great, but it was still warm on the bike with a well appreciated light rain on the run… After the 2 groups completed their workout, we re-grouped around 9:30 for our first “official” open water swim. We had the “perfect condition” to talk and experience some not so perfect conditions… After a quick talk about rough water condition, we all went for a dip, splash, roll and tossed around by the gulf...click on pictures to see full album.
June 23rd – Great weather for some hill work… Today we did 1 hour of repeats on the Ringling bridge. This was a great workout to build power, strength and improve on bike handling skills. We are only 3 weeks into this camp but can definitely see a lot of improvement… Keep up the great job. click on pictures to see full album.
June 20th – LONG and HOT day… I guess I should have read today’s paper Heat advisory “heat index of 110 degree, and stay inside…” It was a very hot day, but that didn’t stop us from doing our group Brick. After the morning’s workout, we had a tire changing class at Village Bikes followed by a 3 hour swim clinic. Agnes treated us all thru a great workout as usual, including using her new designed “Lat Cords”… click on pictures to see full album.
June 17th – Rain go away, please come back another day…. THAT DIDN”T WORK!!! Well, the rain didn’t stop us tonight. This group ROCKS!!!! Instead of biking bridge repeats, we all did running bridge repeats… SPECIAL thanks to Jackie’s cold water sponge idea, even with the rain, it was still VERY HOT...
June 13th – It is BRICK Saturday… we are now split into two groups, advanced went out at 7am for 1.5 hour bike with some intervals and BIG GEAR sets followed by a 30 min run… The Beginners group went out at 8am and did some bike handling skills, 45 min bike and a 20 min run. It was a beautiful day, but it gets HOT early in the day… but the camp goes on. click on pictures to see full album.
June 10th – Second edition is up and running, literally… tonight we had our run clinic at Payne Park. I worked with the beginners group on running efficiency and some drills, while Jackie had the advanced group do some sprint intervals on the main “HILL” … we all finished with a 2-3 mile run on the clay track. click on pictures to see full album.
We had 10 athletes join us in Clermont (The Florida Hills) for a 2 day camp. We started with a 4 hours HILL ride, including 4 trips up Sugar Loaf hill, followed by a 2 hour swim lesson. After a quick lunch and an hour of down-time we headed to Lake Louisa State park for a great 7 mile trail run. Our recovery strategy for the day included a “social” hours by the pool before dinner at Carraba’s . Day two started with recap of the previous day and a transition and strength training clinic down by the lake. We them continued with our famous “unusual” brick, 6 mile ride around the lake followed by a 1 mile run (5 times)…. Shower, lunch and time to hit the road back home… click on pictures to see full album. April 25th - Good luck to Sara, Lizzy,Jefff, John, and Carl tomorrow at St Anthony's Triathlon. The rest of the group had some work to do... Thanks Jackie for the DEEP SAND workout. April 15th - 45 min run with some tempo work and a bridge in the middle.... March 24th -I had the perfect plan for a 2 hour tempo ride, but 5 minutes into what could have been the perfect solo ride I broke my chain… Not to worry, I can deal with this. I drove back the shop and got it fix, now 1 hour into my 2 hour gap, I was ready to ride. What could I do in 1 hour ride? LOTS of bridge repeats, 14 miles worth of hill repeats. March 18th - Camp has started, we have 17 athletes ready to learn. Today we did running analysis and running drills at Payne park. Saturday we have our swim clinic with Agnese Butler, 3X Olympic swimmer. Click on images to see full gallery. 
June 8th - The second session of the Eight2tri has began. This time we are working with 30 athletes ranging from first timer to ½ ironman trainees… What a great group, we can’t wait to get them on the road and make some progress… Stay posted.
May 30th- 31th - CLERMONT TRAINING WEEKEND-
May 8th - HOT, HOT, HOT.... CONGRATULATIONS to all Eight2tri athletes who raced today…. Despite the brutal temperature our group did great. We had 9 athletes racing today, 4 of them first timers…. Here are the stats: 2 – FIRST places including one from a FIRST TIMER, and a SECOND place from our 16 years old athlete competing in his first Olympic distance… and tomorrow we have 3 more athletes racing … BRING IT ON…
May 6th - This is the final week for this camp.... Today we ran the "official" run course for the upcoming race next Saturday. This group will ROCK at the Sharks Classic...
April 26th - St. Anthony's Triathlon turned into a DUathlon do the rough water condition... most athletes were a bit disappointed with the news… Our guys and girls ROCKED, we will use this race as a tune-up for our Sharks race on May 9th. click on pictures to see full album, including LOTS of pictures of the PROS.
April 18th - Mock race on Siesta Key. We are 1 week away from St. Anthony's and 3 weeks away from our May 9th race. It's time to practice, practice and practice... Today we did a 20 min swim, 1 hour bike and a 30 min run as a race rehearsal. Great time to practice nutrition, strategy and race set-up. Click on photos to see full album.
April 11th - Great job to Jackie, Jeff, Sara, John and Kegan, who kicked some BUTTS at the race... The rest of us did a Brick workout and some transition work.
April 8th - BIG GEAR training. Today we did 3 loops on Lido with 5 minutes sets of big gear... can you say "quads on fire"... Good luck to our races doing Escape from Ft Desoto on Saturday, KICK ASS...
April 5th - Escape form Ft. Desoto beginner’s clinic. Today we had a small group but they all had a blast. These first timers are sure to do well next week. Click to see video.
April 4th - What a great day of training. Mock race for St. Anthony’s triathlon, we did a 30 min swim, 1 hour bike and a 30 min run. The weather was perfect but the waves were big. Today we had a hands on training for open water swim in rough conditions, 5 foot waves, rip tide and current. WE HAD A BLAST….Click on images to see full gallery.
March 28th -20 + miles per hour winds were not able to keep us from training… 1 hour ride followed by a 30 minutes run, followed by Q&A on nutrition. This group will be so ready for the upcoming season…
March 25th -My favorate bike workout, Bridge repeats (again). Today we worked on some fundamental skills for bike handling and gear shifting. One hour of hill repeats is like doing leg press in the gym for an hour… Strength training on the bike.
This is a good end to a bad start.
March 21st - Swim clinic today. The weather was perfect and we had the pool all to ourselves. Agnese kept everyone busy for 2 hours full of drills and fun sets in the water. Stay posted for the underwater swim videos. Click on images to see full gallery.
March 11th - This has been a great busy week trying to get ready to kick of our Eight2tri triathlon camp. So far we have 12 participants in this eight week training program.
March 5-8 - Camp with Heather Gollnick. This was a great weekend, I had the pleasure to assist Heather's Ironedge triathlon camp here in Sarasota. This was a 3 day camp and we had 10 participants ranging from very beginners to Ironman finishers. Watch the open water clinic video.
