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- Morning Trainiacs, I think, I think,
I think, that I might be ready--
Whoa.
To start planning when and where I'm going to race next.
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Alright, so, body's feeling a little bit better.
I'm feeling a fair bit better healthied.
My foot is, eh not bad.
I've at least been given the okay to
start increasing the running mileage.
That means that I wanna race.
I don't wanna just go into Half Iron Man
World Championship South Africa having
not done another half Iron Man earlier in the year,
so we gotta pick a race.
Now, here are the guidelines.
Now, these aren't hard and fast,
but I want it to be somewhere like middle to June,
beginning of July.
That will give me enough time to prep for it right now,
cause I really don't have a lot of run mileage.
That'll also, then, give me enough time to recover,
and then just kinda build into half Iron Man World
Championships in South Africa.
Ideally, it's got a pro field, so that I can go there,
I can do some content, I can do some podcasts,
and I want it to be easy to get to,
because I'm already gonna be spending
just a stupid amount of money to get down to South Africa.
So, let's have a slightly cheaper event
to go to earlier in the year, shall we?
Just notice that, what is that?
Beautiful.
Let's bring out the old laptop'aroonie, shall we?
So, easiest place to go to is IronMan.com,
go to races, I want Iron Man 70.3's, and then, pro tip,
go to open, otherwise you're gonna be
including races that might already be sold out.
So, then let's scroll down to around mid June,
June 17th and 16th is when it starts.
Syracuse, New York, USA.
A friendly university town,
has a variety of activities to offer athletes
and spectators during its beautiful summer months.
Since the inaugural race in 2010,
the event has attracted professional triathletes
such as Jodie Swallow, Nikki Butterfield, Angela Naeth,
Joe Gambles, Peter Jacobs, Paul Ambrose, and TJ Tollakson.
It's the perfect buildup to the
popular Iron Man Lake Placid.
Let's see who was there last year.
Nobody.
Female pro?
Nobody.
Okay, right time of year.
Maybe not pros, correct me if I'm wrong out there folks.
Okay, going down the list, we have Denmark,
we have, oh, Coeur d'Alene, let's see that.
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There's a lot of stickers there.
Athlete's choice awards, overall satisfaction,
best overall swim, best overall bike, best overall run,
would recommend to a friend, best race venue experience,
best host city experience.
Making a good case for yourself,
June 24th Iron Man Coeur d'Alene,
and I already know there's pros.
Matt Hanson, Tim Reed, Andy Potts, what else do we got?
Nick Granet?
Nick Granet I met at the QT2 system training camp,
and I was like, "This dudes gonna break out."
He got 10th yesterday at Iron Man Oceanside,
go follow him, he's good.
Haley Chura, Jen Annette, Linsey Corbin,
Sky Nance, Monch, lots.
Okay, looks like we got pros at Iron Man Coeur d'Alene,
plus a whole lot of accolades.
Buffalo Springs Lake in Texas, also on June 24th.
Let's check this one out.
Unfortunately, no pros listed, however,
I did notice this the other day.
They have a pro registration spot.
I don't know what to think.
Also June 24th, this is probably the furthest
that I would go, Costa Rica.
2017 athletes' choice award for best overall swim.
Wait a minute, Iron Man Coeur d'Alene, best overall swim?
Is this some sort of marketing ploy
just to get us to go there?
Imagine, a magical place where nature surrounds you,
an alluring concentration of beauty,
one of the happiest places on the globe,
and the world's capital of humming birds.
This is Costa Rica.
You had me at humming birds, whoa.
My boy Kevin Collington, fellow Ventum rider won last year.
On the lady's side, oh Ventum, sweet.
Leanda Cave won.
Costa Rica, what do you think folks?
Humming birds.
July, Norway, Scotland, Korea, Sweden, little bit far.
Ecuador, little far.
And then July 14th, we're probably getting
too close to Half Iron Man World,
so that puts us more towards Muskoka?
That'd be about it.
A mid summer race loved for its
stunning beauty and naturally tough course.
Actually, Coach Pat and another buddy
of ours ended up doing this a few years ago,
and while I was watching the athlete tracker live,
I was like, "What the hell, guys?"
It's a tough race.
So, we got several options, working our way backwards,
Muskoka, Costa Rica, Buffalo Springs Lake,
Coeur d'Alene, Syracuse.
What I would like you to do,
because I wanna meet as many of you as possible,
that it like the funnest thing,
is going to a race and meeting everyone,
instead of just being literally here
talking to a camera by myself,
comment below and let me know what your pick is,
and if you'll be there, and we might do a meet up,
or we did this in Austen, I talked about doing
like a warm up the day before,
nobody ended up showing up to it but me,
but doesn't mean we can't think about it.
So, gimme your comments below and let
me know where you want me to race,
and we'll see if we can make that happen.
Now, I'm gonna go for a wee little mini run.
For that I need some running partners,
and today's partners are the goons.
Peaty is always on the right, Gracie always on the left.
Try to get them to go the other way, I dare you.
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That there was 5.1 kilometers, about 3.1 something miles,
at just a 5:02 per kilometer pace.
7:40?
Oh, what are these guys?
These guys did pretty good for not having
run with me in about five or six months.
Gracie, perfect.
Peaty likes to run ahead a little bit.
That's kinda his M.O. in life,
he's gotta tough time calming himself down.
Peat, you're a special project, eh?
But you're such a nice guy.
You're in my glute knead spot, sorry.
I need room, go.
Nothing very fast there.
Those long, slow Sunday runs for
everyone should be pretty slow.
I mean, they start getting faster as
they get close to your race,
but for the most part we're talking
like 30 to 40 seconds per kilometer slower
than your race pace.
Miles, we're talking maybe a minute.
Linsey Corbin actually, for recovery runs,
she has had 10 minute miles prescribed for her,
and with these guys around, they're not
the fit and fiddle creatures that we are.
They're probably more fit and fiddly,
they don't even work out.
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There you go Trainiacs, work out, glute activation,
mobility stretches, done.
Dogs, tired.
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