Life with out cycling is really boring - Marc Lanoue
Friday, August 15th, 2008I was talking to Marc tonight. He’s spent most of the last 3 years riding in France and really enjoying the depth of life over there. He also had to take some time off of cycling - which really is an enjoyable for life type of sport.
Otherwise I’m up at 6:30 to swim with Chelsey, shes in the tail end of her high volume phase. I made it through 2h of her 2h10 workout yesterday morning. She dropped me swimming backstroke (she is a world record holder) to my Freestyle… so I went home, should have napped, but drank the last of the coffee instead. (more…)


So I got up to Chelsea Quebec yesterday for the Tuesday of the long weekend. I love this area, quiet clean. And last August this is when I get into the swim of things again.
When Nat showed up in Tucson he hardly knew Sean Bechtel, and an hour later they were sharing a bed for the first of two weeks of their training session. There haven’t been many hours that they’ve spent apart. After 2 months training together the longest separation was 2h (2x 1h massage with Mona).
So I have been spending a lot of time in the pool. From nothing, to 1km workouts being big, to 3km workouts being impossible…. I just stepped out of a 5km day in the pool. However for all the time in the pool over the past 2 months I’ve hardly made any improvements. My wetsuit makes me faster, but you already know that. I’ve been placing a lot of the blame on my technique, and though it’s not perfect, I don’t think it’s what is holding me back.