Need to get adjust ??

For those of you in the South Florida area if you need to get adjust go see Jody in Boca Raton.

Rockway Swimming

Rockway Swimming Team is a competitive swimming club based in Miami, Florida. They cater for swimmers of all ages and levels, from beginners through to national level.
This has been my swim club here in Miami since 2003 and its one of the top swimming clubs in Florida with more than 100 swimmers. I swim with them Tuesday nights at Miami dade south and Saturday mornings at FIU or Dade south. http://www.rwyswim.com/index.html

A gift from my biggest fan :)

So my girl friend piri decided to collect some of my race photos from my harddrive and make a video, most of them from costa rica and hamburg thanks to elizabeth bravo who took many of them. here it is

Chritsmas presents arrived early from OGK !!!

I got a nice set of REDIMOS helmets today from one of my sponsors OGK in the mail. I will be wearing them in 2011 again at some of the major races in the US and around the world. I started with OGK at the end of last year and fell in love with them, they have the lightest and most comfortable helmets in the market. They also make other great products check them out at : http://www.ogkhelmet.com/

Winter Arrived!!!!

So today is the first winter day of year for us here in miami, temperature in the 50's in the morning and everyone freaking out. I had a nice swim yesterday and it was 84 so imagine how it felt this morning. Now i lived in colorado and i remember if it got to the 50's during the winter i would probably run outside shirtless,but not here in miami, once you get use to this heat you can never get use to the cold again.

Training is going well already recovered from my crash and i will be probably going back to La paz ITU in January and spend some weeks training in the Bahia Blanca area about 500 km south of Buenos Aires then back to Costa Rica to prepare the summer races.

stay warm

Training Tips

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be writing here on my blog some of the training sessions I do and if you are in the area you are welcome to join me, this week I will start with tip #1 uphill repeats(running), I like to do these sets the best during the off season, it's a great interval workout and it mainly gives you lots of strength in your running. Usually I keep them short around 200 meters up and very easy down for the recovery and you pick your poison on how many you want to do :) Here in Miami the best place to do these its the Key Biscayne bridge it has around 5% inclination and its about 400 meters long. You will find me there once a week.

ciao

Swim team

So here at home I do most of my swims with a team, they have masters and high school sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays in the morning and then every afternoon down at the Kendall pool.
this is the team's website : www.rwyswim.com

Pepe Fernandez is the head coach and used to be the Cuban national team head coach back in the 80's. So if live in the area and want to join a team check them out and you'll see me around.

later

Update

So this past year I spent most of the time in costa rica, living in cartago and in a farm up in the escazu volcano at 2100 meters high. I had a great training group down there and most of the hard efforts at the track or up the hills on the bike were done with Leonardo Chacon and Rom Arkenson, the top two costa rican triathletes. Through out the season we also had some other athletes from different countries that came and trained with us ( peter & gabor from hungary, omar from puerto rico and javier cuevas from the dominican republic.) I left the country very happy tons of people helped me a lot while i was there and I cant thank them enough. Im planning on going back very soon since my coach Roberto Solano lives there and I believe that I can train a lot better over there.

Back on my feet

So Im back on a normal training schedule, after a crash a few weeks ago here in miami that left me with a concussion and a sore back Im now back on the bike. The temperature here so far have been awesome and i have started to train towards the 2011 season. My first race on next season will be probably sometime in january along with some local running races with Team Footworks.