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

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

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

off day "vamos United

So after a crazy Tuesday I'm back. On Tuesday I ran for 40 minutes with some accelerations. To day I went for 50 minutes bike ride, around 12 or 13 miles. I am getting for Sunday.

Tomorrow is off day because DC United plays and I am going to the game at Estadio RFK.

The POPE was in DC today. MY only comments are when the catholic church begins doing something to stop the hungryness and the death of kids in Africa,please let me know.