As usual Dr. Tommy was amazing with a 2nd overall at IMCDA. I love his training approach…he mixes it up, works as a dentist, lifts weight, rides powercranks, rides on rollers, does “drill work in the water”, XC skis and puts his tri bike away for 4 months etc etc etc…he often trains when he can around work (and yes, he does have some flexibility). This guy is living the age group life of cramming whatever workouts he can get done in his normal Joe schedule and then he races Pro Zone and kicks the ass of Pros 15 years younger!
Sr. Tommy has the opposite training approach of the ST gurus…what gives?
Amazing…best of all, the guy is pushing 40…no excuse for the rest of us to use our age for being slow…I just got off a Powercrank ride plus weight workout…I was sick of riding my tri bike, running and swimming after doing 15 hours of “tri specific stuff” for 2 days
Just to be clear, there are some very Ironman tri pro zone specific 35 hour weeks in there, with mega running miles, however, the guy is not “locked in” with being “specific” all year and being slave to a spreadsheet :-).
Dr T is Old School all the way. It’s not that complicated.
Kudos also to Jasper Blake. That’s two Canadians in the top 5( and another Canadian won the women’s race!) Must be something about all the ice and snow and crappy weather!!
reminds me of another UBER fast dude here in Ontario by the name of Len Gushe and he is 43. This past weekend he absolutely spanked everyone at a local Olympic distance race by going 1:59 (with an extra 3.5k on the bike). He ran by me as I was heading out and it didn’t look like his feet were touching the ground at all. He is pretty inspirational. And another Dr. to boot. Amazing though.
I wonder if he uses a power meter? Not every elite does but I don’t know whether he does or not. When I talked to him a few years ago, after he had been on PC’s a couple of years and just before he won his first IM I asked him for improvement metrics. He didn’t throw out a single power number, simply said “just look at my times”. I think that interview is on the web site somewhere. If not I will have to put it there.
I know Dr. Tommy keeps trying to talk some elites who hang out here to get on PC’s but they, apparently, just can’t seem to bring themselves to go against the advice of their coaches (I am sure they are hearing: “you don’t need those #%$*!!@ gimmicks”). Oh, and the guy who ran him down is a PC’er also. I was really having mixed emotions as the two of them clearly were the best that day as I wanted Tom to win (I know him and I don’t know Victor, beyond just meeting him) but I hate wishing others bad luck. I am content they both raced well and the best man that day won. That is racing. This was a particularly “exciting” race and IM racing generally goes.
I know it was a different race, but STer John Kenny had a kick ass day on yesterday at Philly. I am pretty sure he is using PCs as well…
Really? there were so many races going on yesterday it was hard to follow them all. Also don’t know about the Xterra race yesterday - there was one wasn’t there.
John told me he was going to be racing on them this year but not sure if he did or not. Last year was his first year on them and he just wasn’t ready for serious competition on them. Sounds like things have changed. I think he is serious about collecting some of our incentives that we offer for racing on PowerCranks. Anyhow, a link?
Hey, let’s not make this a powercranks thread. The main point is that it is possible to be very good at triathlon, by mixing it up and doing a variety of training…not just be slave to swim-bike-run and the excel spreadsheet and the prescribed Zone X on day 1. Hey, I even do Dr. Tommy and Jonnyo sprinting up Palani the week before Kona with 30 lbs of groceries in the backpack…not sure what zone they were in, or who won the King of Palani sprints, but needles to say I was only halfway up the hill with the sprint points were doled out and resorted to my dutiful role as ST chef when the groceries were unloaded (I detect a trend here…same thing happened at the Casa Desertdude at Wildflower…the chef part…)
tons of races over the weekend, involving Slowtwitchers hitting podium at 2 different 1/2 IMs in BC. Greg N (sychronicity) from Edmonton went #3 at the Prestige Half in Cranbrook, in Maple Ridge Hydrosloth (me) went #2 at Iron Mountain. Deatails here http://www.winningtime.ca/
I detect a trend here…same thing happened at the Casa Desertdude at Wildflower…the chef part…
Dev,
I see a future for you. You should have a cook truck and serve up some nice Indian food at Triathlon races. Post race food for the most part is rather boring these days. I would love to have, post-race, a nice, spicy chicken vindaloo, with some rice biryani, some naan bread and all washed down with a cold King Fisher! My mouth is watering right now at the thought!
tons of races over the weekend, involving Slowtwitchers hitting podium at 2 different 1/2 IMs in BC. Greg N (sychronicity) from Edmonton went #3 at the Prestige Half in Cranbrook, in Maple Ridge Hydrosloth (me) went #2 at Iron Mountain. Deatails here http://www.winningtime.ca/
I like the way you said that. 'tons of races over the weekend, involving slow twitchers hitting the podium.
Maybe that is how we could all look at race results, encouraging and congratulating fellow STers when they have good race! Instead of seeing people slammed for having done well but going slow according to some other person’s idea of fast and slow.
tons of races over the weekend, involving Slowtwitchers hitting podium at 2 different 1/2 IMs in BC. Greg N (sychronicity) from Edmonton went #3 at the Prestige Half in Cranbrook, in Maple Ridge Hydrosloth (me) went #2 at Iron Mountain. Deatails here http://www.winningtime.ca/
I like the way you said that. 'tons of races over the weekend, involving slow twitchers hitting the podium.
Maybe that is how we could all look at race results, encouraging and congratulating fellow STers when they have good race! Instead of seeing people slammed for having done well but going slow according to some other person’s idea of fast and slow.
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Participating and having fun is worthy of congratulations as just getting there (especially if it is an IM) involves a lot of hard work for most. Setting a PR, whether it be 9 or 14 hours is worthy of special congratulations.
Not 100% certain, but I had heard from reliable Penticton sources that Dr. Tom works one day a week during the Spring-summer in order to make ends meet. (He probably makes in one day more then I make in a week!) Another reason why this sport is messed up when the top guns can’t live off prize money alone
Dr Tommy is up there for all us old school guys to thank for keeping the faith.I hear that he saves most of his drill work for his office(Ha Ha,I crack myself up).Seriously though there is one Ironman record that he has discussed trying to break and only guys like Tom Evans or Rhodesy could do it.Try and guess what that record is.We are trying to convince him to do Ultraman and he did tell me that if Ultraman Canada had been at it's old date of early August he would have done it as training for Kona this year but make the run an easy day.Look for him in Ultraman Canada 2008 either solo or as part of an Uber-team.
I see a future for you. You should have a cook truck and serve up some nice Indian food at Triathlon races. Post race food
for the most part is rather boring these days. I would love to have, post-race, a nice, spicy chicken vindaloo,
with some rice biryani, some naan bread and all washed down with a cold King Fisher!
My mouth is watering right now at the thought!
Dude, I WOULD BE ALL OVER THAT!!!
And if I saved the Indian food for after, my race times might improve as well… ;-p
