Anyone else considering a camp in January? The weather absolutely blows here during January, it is the dregs of the year.
I’ve been to Doug’s camp five times if I recall correctly, maybe only four- I don’t remember. Each time I go it breaks up the winter nicely and is a great opportunity to gain some base miles, fitness, have a ton of fun and actually improve my swimming. I’ve always enjoyed it.
No, Doug does not pay me. I am a non-compesated endorser. But the food is good, the company better, the training great and the fun is the best.
Anyone else in or considering coming? Contact Doug for info. Big fun.
Hey Tom, I reread your post but didn’t see anything about where to get more information. Can you save me the google searching? Living in WAY upstate NY I feel your Winter pain.
It seems like quite a few people do come along just for the vacation. Invariably, the first three days everyone trains super hard- doing three or even four workouts a day: Swim in the morning, run to (and!) or from the pool, breakfast (awesome coffee) on the terrace overlooking the ocean, ride in the afternoon, open water swim after the ride.
After three days of that then the numbers in the training sessions start to taper and the numbers on the beach in front of the hotel start to climb. People just start to chill out.
We ride to a beautiful beach on day all the way across the island, have a picnic, swim, goof around. Heck, on Friday night last time I was there the hotel had this killer band that was like K’s Choice kinda. Awesome.
Anyway, there is a lot to do. We swam with dolphins, ate at really good little grass-shack seafood places and shopped at the cruise-ship tourist places in Williamsted. Last time I was there I would strike out on my own or with some euro-pro dudes who were doing their own traiing camp and bust out a 65 miler to the other end of the island and back. It was pretty real-world. Beautiful place too.
I REALLY want to go, but I don’t think the time is right for me considering I’m going to put a contract on my first home tomorrow and I know how houses are money pits, especially in the first year. I want to go because next year is The Year of the Ironman for me and I would think his training camp would be perfect for it, but I just can’t afford $3k on a training vacation right now.