My team in the olympic Qualifier

Volleyball is one of my favorite sports. The puertorican men national team is trying to qualify for the olympics. So they are playing on Portugal this weekend. The team faces Polinia, Portugal, and Indonesia. Who ever wins this tournament goes to the Olympic. This team is special for me because most of them are friends and great people and we grew up playing together a 10 or 12 years ago. Or my thoughts are with them. I am with them in the quest to qualify.

NJ weekend, Olga's wedding

So I am back after a weekend in northern NJ. My weekend went extremely good. On Friday I took the day off to prepare everything for the trip and to do some updates on my computer (played with a brand new external memory). On Saturday Allison and me wake up at 5:00 AM to leave for NJ we left Arlington around 5:45 AM. By 7:45 we were at the NJ turnpike and we stop for pit stop, rest room and coffee. By the way we put more gas since it was 25 cent cheaper that in VA. We continue our trip to and we arrive at the wedding hotel at 9:57 A.M. We went in to the check in and they told us that the room will not be available until 3:00 pm. So we had 6 hours to waste or burn in a country town. We were tier and hungry. We went to eat take time, then spend a few hours on the pool and then for another long walk. Finally we got our room and rested for 30 minutes. My cousins knew that I was around started to hurry us up to spend some time together before the wedding. So we got dress really quick. Went down and jang out with my cousins and or their sons and daughters. I had met them all of them when they were babies and now they 3 to 6 years old. We went to the wedding and it was really beautiful. Then the reception was even better with good food and drinks. The food was really but really good. The reception went til mid night and we arrive to the hotel really wasted and tier. On Sunday we spend the day at my cousin Carlos house. We had a great time. We played a lot with the girls and boys. Carlos let us spend the night at his house. THANK YOU Carlos. On Monday we wake up around 8. We took breakfast and spend the day playing with the kids and talking with my cousins. Then we head back to VA. Traffic was ok it wasn’t heavy on both way may be gas prices had to do a little with that. We went to BBQ at my girl’s friend house. Then we head back home and pass out.

About training I didn’t do anything for 5 days so it was rest time and family time.

Yesterday I resume training and bike 18.5 miles.

Today is tempo training on the track.

Weeding weekend

Training will be reduce this weekend due to my cousin wedding this weekend at NJ so I am driving 4 hours at 5 am Saturday Mourning to be there for the weekend so training will be limited to driving an occasional run and a lot of food. Sounds diferent so will see how its goes.

On others things My Boca plays Fluminense from Brazil next Wednesday. So will see how it goes. Ill be back next week with more of the family wedding.

I love May

For a good freak sports fan like me May is a great month. For example Yesterday was a great sports day. For me one of the best of the years. Its starts with the Giro of Italy, continued with the UEFA Champions League final. Then quarter fianals of Copa Libertadores to close with NBA playoofs. So the results of Yesterday are this:

Manchester United 2 Chelsa 1 ( penalties 6- 5)


Copa Libertadores
My BOCA 3 - Atlas 0
Martin Palermo 3 goals in the first half
Bring on San Lorenzo, Liga or Fluminense


Fluminense 3 - Sao Paulo 1
MLS
DC United 0 - Toronto FC 1
NBA
Lakers 89 - San Antonio 85

As for training watching the Champions game I bike on the trainer and then jog 15 minutes to the bat to watch the Boca game
good training.
Today 8 esay miles
Enjoy the rest of your day

Big Futbol (soccer) Week

Tomorrow at 2:30 pm all eyes of the world will be at Moscow Russia for the final of the champion league between Manchester United and Chelsea. Both teams are English. So it is an English final. Chelsea is led by Drogba Ballack Lampard Micheal Obi and Makekele.


Manchester United is led my favorite Carlitos Tevez from boca, Christaino Ronaldo , Rooney and the rest of the gang.

I am picking Manchester United 2-1 over Chelsea.

After that game My Boca goes to Mexico to define 1 spot at the semifinals of Copa Libertadores. Boca faces Atlas 6:20 pm. The series is at tied 2
Hopefully my Boca can put the out a hard game on the road again

let see how its goes

Im back

So I haven’t post anything in over a week. I have been busy at work and training (Sure). This weekend training was change do to our traditional Sunday bad weather day so instead of biking on Sunday I change and biked on Saturday. My bike ride on Saturday was of 73 miles. Yes is a lot but that help to prove me that I can bike 56 miles relax on the 1/2 iron man that I have on June 29th. It was a great ride and I practice my nutrition. I finished it tired but happy. On Sunday the weather was a mess so didn’t do anything. I was really pist about it. In stead I went to the taste of Arlington with my girl friend and eat like a pig. Yesterday I swam 3000 mts. Today I wake up early and bike on the trainer for 25 minutes in preparation for interval Tuesday or km repeat Tuesday this afternoon. 7 km for 4:30. Let see how its goes.

Weight loss issues

So I am struggling to lose 6 pounds. Yes I stand 6’ 1”, 173 pounds 11.5 % body fat. Yes sound like crazy but by race time in a month and a ½ I need to be between 165 -167 and less than 10% body of fat. 9.5% body of fat will be ideally. But I don’t know why this time is harder for me to get over there. So I am cutting the sugars and being really careful on what I am eating or I should say extremely more than I am normally do.

Having talk about my weight issues training is intensifying for my big test the west VA ½ ironman. Yesterday I swam 2000 mts was suppose to be 3000 but I was helping my girl friend with the swim. She is having her firs triathlon on July.

Today I am doing some KM intervals at the track. 4:30 KM repeats. And I would try to spin for 30 minutes

Tomorrow Ill try to get up early to swim plus Boca plays in the quarter finals of the Liberatodres Cup. It is technically my resting day.


So will see how its goes.

Enjoy your week

Happy mothers day

Since my mom is far away I went for a 57 mile bike ride. It was a good training ride easy at the beginning and hard coming back with the wind against you and it was blowing probably above of 20 miles. It was hard ... for this week the training is going to be hard as the 1/2 iron man approaches on June 29th. Tomorrow I have 3000 meter swim so will see how it goes

Hope everybody have a great week

training weekend

I haven't have time to post so let me recap quickly. the training this week went almost ok. I swim on Monday, bike and run (brick) on Tuesday, Wednesday i run KM speed work out and went to watch Boca vs Cruzeiro. Boca won yes. Thursday I bought new running shoes Adidas Boston classic. Took Thursday off. Friday I was suppose to bike but the rain didn't aloud me and i was to lacy to put on the trainer.Saturday I ran 8 miles including the Battle of the boulevard 10k here at Arlington. I did 51 something that was good for a training run. In the afternoon i went Swimming and put a good practice. Sunday the bike ride will be 50 to 55 miles let see how it goes.

Other than that enjoy your weekend

Frederick MD 1/2 marathon , My first alone start

The mourning started at 4:30 when I wake up. We left at 5:00 to the race it was a 40 minute drive. At 5 45 we were at the high way stuck in the traffic jam because of everybody trying to get to the race. So at 6 05 I told my girl friend that I was walking to the start. So the funny thing happened. A lot of runners started walking to the race site in the middle of the highway. It was funny and at the same time I felt sorry for the runners that were doing their first marathon. All the pressure plus stalk at the traffic jam. I was like kilometer walk so wasn't that bad. Sine I was doing this for training I wasn't worried at all. I got to race site that by the way was a horse racing facility. I was there at 6 20 the race was supposed to start at 6 30. But as always before a race I have to do my toilet trip. The line was long. So the race started and I was on the line and we started chant our fellow runners. After 11 minutes finally I started the race ALONE , no body was around.



The race went great I started at 8:40 mile pace and continued like that for the 1st 6 miles. The course was nice. Through old town Frederick and then to some nice old houses. The course has some minors hills but not hard at all. The 6 miles went through a parking lot of a mall. Then through some nice rural areas. When I hit mile 11th my watch said 1:34:40 so I said to my self let see if Ican put less than 1:50. I started to push the pace and hit mile 12 in 1:41:55. Great I was in good pace to break it and with less than a KM i get the hard hill of all it was like a 150 mts of pure incline so I said there 1:50:00 will be find. I just role to the finsh passing people and went I enter the horse racing site I saw this girl having problem and I pushed to come with me and she finished strong. My official time was 1:50:55, not bad for a training run. 247 out 18??, age group 47 out 128 ok.
Race over view good race, I ll do it again but they have to work the traffic so it easier for runners to get in.
Highlights of the race the lonley start
A cuban food place that I saw and I wonder it was going to be open after race so I can go and eat good food. It was close
score 9 out of 10

Stadium Alberto J Armando: On Sunday afternoon my Boca Juniors defeated River play 1 -0. The goal was score by Sebastian Battalgia. The game wasn’t high level game but was entertaining. The important thing is that Boca beat river for the first time in 3 years. The other thing here is the moral victory that the team gets for the next of tough matches that are coming. They travel to Brazil to defend the Copa Libertadores on Wednesday. They won the first game 2-1 so they need to tie or win to pass. They can’t lose because of the away goal advantage. From here I will keep you posted on how the game went.


As for me I was extremely happy with the victory and I celebrated a lot.

Traininig and Racing

This week training went good. Thursday I bike 15 miles and run 30 minutes. Yesterday I played a little bit of volleyball. Today I bike for 26 miles at the columbia MD Tri bike course. It was a really beautiful course and challenging. The Park is also really nice. Tomorrow I am doing the Frederic 1/2 marathon. I plan to this as a training run so my expectation are between 150 and 1 55. I don't want to push it. My next big race is in West Virginia June 29. Is The The MedExpress Spirit of Morgantown Triathlon (formerly known as the Mountaineer Triathlon). This is my first A race of the season so will see how it goes. Training intensity and time will be high in the next few weeks. so I let you know how its goes.

Boca v River

Tomorrow the world best soccer derby its play. It is Boca jrs vs River Plate. The game is at Boca Stadium La Bombonera. It will be broad casted in the USA at fox soccer channel and fox sports in Spanish at 2pm eastern. This will be 320th these team meet . Boca have won 115. They have tied 100 times and River have won 104. Boca have not beat River since 2005 and River have won 2 out of the last 3 games. So this game means a lot to Boca because of the 3 years draw. The winner of this game probably will increase their chances of winning the Libertadores cup. I invite every one who wants to see a great game to enjoy it tomorrow. This game is consider one of the top sports event in the world.

Congratulations

good training weekend and Super Clasico weekend

Its friday and its warm so i planed to train a lot this weekend .. Saturday I am going to go and the bike course of the Columbia triathlon. This course is very hard and technical. So I let you know how its goes. On Sunday I am doing the frederick 1/2marathon as a training run so I am planning on doing 1:50 to 1:55. Easy run. And then go and wait for the Super Clasico of BOCA and River. I ll be back later for some thoughts of the Boca River game on Sunday

Happy International workers day

Today May 1 this day is celebrated as a hollyday in many countries of the world. Ironicly was here at the USA that it started. It started with the big strike of worker in May 1, 1886 in Chicago and ended with the Haymarket riot in Chigago May 4 1886. This is a conmemoration for all those unions leader that fight for the 8 hours work day 40 hour week. Its also known as May Day. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations by millions of working people and their labour unions throughout Europe and most of the rest of the world. Of course none in the USA at it should be. So for all workers that allways belive in the fight of their right that has been lost lately this a good for begin to stand up and fight for our rights.

I leave everybody with this thought (or song) ;)

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

Preacherman, dont tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you dont know
What life is really worth.
Its not all that glitters is gold;
alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. jah!

Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Dont give up the fight! (life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (so we cant give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!)
Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!)
Dont give up the fight! (yeah!)

We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you cant fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Dont give up the fight! (dont give it up, dont give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Dont give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Dont give up the fight! /fadeout/