ok wow. that was wet. 20min warm up then 10.5 MILES building from 5:40 to 5:10 pace w/Bairu, Tim Nelson, Evan Jager, Kyle and Adam.oh yeah, Tim, Evan and Simon kept going in the ABSOLUTE POURING rain for another 7 miles at 5min mile pace. impressive. t…
* hill reps done. 10×250m with some fast guys. stumptown coffee break before our swim and bike sessions. Bairu stayed away 2day resting up? 
simonwhitfield says; really interesting perspective. I hope she doesn’t let all that noise distract her though, it’s all “fog”….. http://tinyurl.com/y93we9c
great weekend of training. big week last week in fact. some solid swims, hard riding and 3 key runs including 6×1mile on 1min rest yesterday chasing mr. cunningham who was nice enough to act as the rabbit and a great track session on wednesday. we’re o…
sqwitter (short lazy posting)had a post swim meeting with the book publishers at Orca books, we have a book coming out in the fall and the final manuscript meeting was today. “Simon says Gold” in pursuit of athletic excellence. Orca books has done a gr…
sqwitter reportgood fun, in friday morning, out saturday night. Roomed with Amac, had a good time, strolling the streets looking for coffee with the young james dean himself….adventures on friday included learning you can’t ride on the Oakland/Sanfra…
I need more rest then I used to.I know I know, I’m getting older…… yes Kyle I’m 34 and you’re 24 and bounce back every time. It’s not actually the workouts as much as the rest of my life, that and allergy season just makes you feel tired and lethar…
I forgot about sqwitter. my excuse to be really lazy when posting.What are you doing? (asks mr. www.sqwitter.com)thanks for asking, training is going well, sore from hard hilly long run/hilly/tempo. smashed myself, ran the last 2mins straight uphill be…
in sonoma. rode 2hrs+ yesterday with a couple solid pieces but all and all fairly easy. swam 4000y at the healthquest “resort”, main set 600 fast, 4×300 fast, 6×100 on 1:05 (love yards….). ran 50mins before dinner. Pretty spectacular run actually, no…
in Sonoma with the gold medal plates group. Fun ride yesterday with Kwaz, McNoughton and Jordan. Took the group for 90mins this morning up to a fun loop. Chris Lieto came down in his awesome BASE nutrition mobile, great great guy, really interesting to…
training is going well. easy easy day today after a big weekend of intervals. set up the new Cervelo R3 then rode 3hr on saturday w/1hr of suffering intervals + 10min run@race pace off the bike, played at the park in the afternoon. Sunday 2(20mins LT b…
watching the world curling champs, the best, Kevin Martin is bad ass. The Scots have the coolest accents”Iey runi in cross da er”.good day training, yesterday was solid so today was a little lighter with a recovery afternoon, my version of a “sleep in”…
I’m absolutely blown away by how amazing the new GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS album is.Outstanding.Not to mention the HEY ROSETTA, which is inspiring music to run too.
back home, finally. traveled from 5am to 8pm Tucson to Edmonton, ate while trying to watch the final 4 but some dude sat down right in front of the tv, slept, woke up early for appearance at Goldstar plant. Met some great people, zipped off to airport,…
training is going well, being back running is brilliant. Sore the first couple days back after missing 10days but we’re rolling now. 3×10mins off the bike on wednesday felt uncoordinated but still managed to run well. did a bike fit “check up” with coa…
simonwhitfieldback. heel is healed. nice to be running again, no issues. ran 1hr yesterday easy with no problems, felt a little sore later, no runs in 10days does that to you. great morning ride. w.u. then 15mins as 3min below threshold/2mins above x3,…
In freeport Bahama airport headed back to Tucson. Spoke to a great group of people, so passionate about their jobs. In and out trip with a lot of time spent in the hotel room because my speech was a surprise. Got some work done and tried to catch up on…
SIMONWHITFIELDheel is coming along, the power of smart rest, patience and R.I.C.E. (at least that’s what I’m telling myself)… The last couple days have rolled along, haven’t run of for a week but initial panic has subsided and just focusing else wher…
My heel is not playing along. I think I pissed off the bursa. We shall see. Arg. I’m currently sitting in PHX airport waiting for Pippa and Jennie to arrive before they head up to sedona for a week with her parents and I head back to Tucson to train/li…
simonwhitfieldnot such a great day. did something to my bloody heel,almost feels like something bite me, except there’s no mark… arg.likely from hard pavement downhill running yesterday. ran 20min before limping home. arg.swam most of the main set af…
simonwhitfieldsolid solid day. strength swim, kyle and I were rolling.great ride, 2 x mccains loop to top of gates pass. Again hitting it with Kyle and ARUSS.Chef Lauren was crushing the bike, very impressive.30mins building run off the bike, tough hil…
well not really but.In a 140 characters or lessSIMONWHITFIELDflew 2 AZ, ez flt, no bike! dam8swam 5g, felt better as set went on.Dev gang was going fast! I am impressed.run now, like a Kenyen.