So, over the past few weeks, while I was recovering from hernia surgery (I do NOT recommend this as part of your off-season training plan), I was ruminating on the importance of encouragement. I know some people don’t seem to need the support and encouragement of others, but I know I rely on it to a huge degree, and I’m sure that even among the type-A crowd that tends to hang out here there must be others who do.
Anyway, while I was recuperating I wrote a website, bleevnme.com, where you can post a little blurb about what it is you’re trying to do and get a badge that you can put on your own website, blog, myFace, whatever. People can click on the badge to leave a tiny token of support for you. Here’s a link: http://bleevnme.com
I’d love it if you want to try it out, and would love any feedback. Or, of course, encouragement
Will…what is your first “come back” event? Is Jonnyo trying to avoid a smackdown?
Yes … now that you mention it, he is! Jonnyo, I’m calling you out! What’s the matter, are you afraid of my fearsome 200 watt FTP? Bring it!
I will be racing somewhere around the end of April / early May, hopefully something a little more low-key than wildflower!
Nice try at modesty Will but judging by the way you easily powered by me on your bicycle at Eagleman last year, I am quite confident your FTP is at least 300W…
You should make a celebrity appearance at St. Croix…with that 200W FTP, you should fly up the Beast :-)…speaking of watts, I have to lose some upper body weight…my already low and lame FTP wattage is usually assisted by being a lightweight, but it seems that that advantage will be non existent if I keep eating at the rate that I have been!
Nice try at modesty Will but judging by the way you easily powered by me on your bicycle at Eagleman last year, I am quite confident your FTP is at least 300W…
Oh, it was, back THEN. Back in the salad days of having a whole pile of watts and eight months of decent training under me. Ah, those were the days.
Dev: Its all about getting more aero. This is triathlon which means unfortunately being lightweight doesnt help too much during the plethora of relatively flat TTs in triathlon. Believe me, I wish W/kg mattered more!
Life down here in Palm Beach makes it hard to keep the weight down. I mean, we’re always taking boat trips to the Bahamas where all we do is fry fish and drink beer. And then my grandpa dies and I go up for the funeral and my grandmother is stuffing food down my face left and right. Worst of all I go and see Denton on the way home and he’s still skinny as a damn bean pole even though cant even run anymore!!
Although, I think I may still have a little something left. Law is for the birds; maybe I’ll start training again…
True…after the Beast its all about being aero…but then you get to T2 and you have to carry the extra bulk around for 13 miles!!! Well, hopefully the extra upper body mass means a faster swim!
