1/2 Iron Man weekend

I have been really busy between work training and watching the Euro cup.
This weekend Ill be racing my first 1/2 ironman. The race site is at West VA and the race name is the spirit of Morgantown. I am really excited for the race. Plus the fact that a friend from home will come and race with me and together will be trying to accomplish our first 1/2. I am looking forward to do 6 hours let see how that goes. I will be leaving Saturday mourning is a 3 1/2 hour drive so it shouldn’t be that long.

In other stuff the Euro cup have has a lot of great games so I watch it on Espn.

Il be back tomorrow with some final preparation notes

Training, Euro cup, Triathlon

Training this week has been really bad because I have been tire. This is because I haven’t recovered from my trip over the weekend to Puerto Rico and because on Wednesday I watch Argentina vs Brazil soccer game. Yesterday I went to bed around 8 read my book and passed out. Hopefully I can get some rest this weekend in order to be fully ready for my first ½ half iron men next weekend. My training this weekend will consist of biking today, Run the Baltimore 10 miler tomorrow, swim in the afternoon and bike 50 to 60 miles on Sunday easy.

In other stuff the Euro cup quarterfinals are in full force so If you so if you have a chance to watch the games on ABC and ESPN do IT. ON Saturday the Netherland goes against Russia and on Sunday the big game between Spain and Italy. Remember I picked the Netherlands to win it all. Hopefully Spain beat Italy.

In the triathlon world the ITU des monies world cup is this weekend. Watch the broadcast live at the ITU site. Also Ford Ironman USA Coeur d'Alene, Ironman Japan Triathlon, and Ironman France will be held. So there is a lot of action.

AVP volleyball is also around.

So be aware I ll be back with more.

Im back

Hopefully no more trips ....
I went this weekend to Puerto Rico and I only ran 12 miles on Friday and swim a mile on Sunday ..other than that I visited family and friends and went out. Training last week was great until the trip that I bearly did nothing. Yesterday I was suposed to bike but I was to tier and just went to bed really early. Today I will resume training the last stage in order for my first 1/2 iron man on Sunday the 29 th. I will keep you posted. I will try blog everyday from now on.

back with more later.

Im back

I havent posted in a while hopefully by tomoorow I post the yorktown report as for training I continue my training this week havent rest since last week. This weekend Ill be heading to my home at Puerto Rico to visit my familiy I ll continue to keep you updated on how my trip training and other stuff goes
P.S.
I met US olympic hopeful Alan Webb at the track I practice yesterday.

Have a great weekend and a enjoy the Euro cup

Yorktown pics

CSC invitational

This event was held last Sunday, 1 mile away from my home I share few pictures enjoy

Huge weekend in triathlon

There are a lot of tri this weekend
The world Championship at Vancouver British Columbia
It will be broadcasted live on the ITU site www.triathlon.org
In the Iron man circuit the famous Eagle man 70.3 on MD
Plus the Yorktown sprint tri.

If you are a Futbol (Soccer) fan the Eurocup 2008 begins Saturday in Austria and Switzerland the games will be broadcasted live on the Espn network.
I like the Netherlands but be aware of the Chez Republic, they always play good at this tournament.



Enjoy your weekend.

Yorktown sprint

This weekend as a tune up race for my ½ ironman distance event I ll be doing the Yorktown sprint triathlon. This race is in south VA. My expectations for this race are not high since I haven’t cut training this week in fact I have train really hard in order to get there charged…. I hope I can put 1:20 on a sprint which it will not be bad time considering this is going to be a C Race on my schedule.

As always I will have a full report on the race of how it went

Boca lost

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Copa Libertadores Final

My Boca lost last night 3 -1 and was eliminated from Copa Libertadores. But even loosing they dominated the game. So some times the futbol is unfair. It was a great game and the team that made the key goals won period.

So now we have a good final between Liga universitaria de Quito and Fluminense

My volleyball team didn’t make it to the Olympic in fact they played they worst tournament in recent year. May be the pressure affected them but I am steal proud of them.

Sex and the city

This past Saturday I went to the movies with my girl friend to watch Sex and the city. I will confess here that I was a big fan of the series from 2001 all the way to the last episode in 2004. I did watch it basically to learn about girls/ woman what they thought and yes because I find it interesting to see different reaction on certain situations. After watching the movie I find it ok. Have a good story and nice fashion and photography. But how ever the most interesting thing was the amount of girls at the movies with personalities and style similar to the 4 characters of the movie. They were dress as them and acting as them. I have been noticing this trend in the last 3 years. Girls are acting in different manners as the characters of the series. So my opinion is that this series is a sociologically phenomenon. It has influence how girls, acts, dress, approach guys; see guys, relationships and why not how they hook up with them. This my personal opinion on the series influence on culture especially in girls. Feel free to comment

Boca vs Fluminense

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Tonight at 8:50 eastern time Boca and Fluminense will play the 2nd leg of their semifinal match of Copa Libertadores. The first game was a tied at 2. Fluminense have the advantage because the away goal counts doble. The game will be played at el MARACANA of Rio de Janeiro in front of 80,000
Here in the US the game will be live at Fox sports in spanish and I recomend every perosn that have the oportunity to see it that go and watch it.

Of course I am going with my team Boca 2 -1 in a great Futbol match.

Dale Bo, Dale Bo, Dale boca
Aguanta con garra

Trainning

It has been a while since I posted so here we go…

Friday I bike 45 minutes on a test Cervelo. It was from a test ride that the nearest bike store from my home was having. It was nice.
On Saturday I went for a 12 miles run at noon. A lot of people told me that I was crazy. But if later in the summer for some races I am going to be running at those conditions then I have to train the body for that. The run go ok but by mile 9 I got caught by a nasty storm. I had to take shelter under a small wooden house so I ll be protected from the lighting. I was stuck for 15 minutes. After that I run home just in time for the second storm. It was a fun experience being in a small forest in the middle of the storm.
On Sunday I bike 64 miles in less than 4 hours. I took the rest of Sunday off because I was tired.
On Monday I swim 2500 meters and its felt good being back to the pool after almost 2 weeks..
Tuesday I run intervals of 1:38 and 1:40 for 400 mts on the treadmill. It was supposed to be on the track but around 7 a tornado warning was issued so I thought that it wasn’t a good idea to go to the track. I went great. For cooling down I spin for 20 minutes on the bike trainer.
Wednesday (today) I am going to the pool to swim and then to watch the Boca game

Boca will be my next post Ill be back later.