Breakthrough Endurance Race week

After a lot of travel I am home after a very busy week. The race I was at put on by Breakthrough Endurance http://www.beraceseries.com/ went awesome lots of people helped out to make it a success. The week leading into the race was going really well for me. My peroneal tendonitis was not hurting and I was feeling good. However leading into the race I had not a lot of run fitness due to the fact I had not really run for 7 weeks before the race. Friday Was the super sprint 200m swim 4.6 mile hard mtb 1.6 trial run at a all out effort. I swam as hard as I could and came out with the normal guys I would come out with and on the bike at the start moved my way into 4th. had a small dumb crash and before you know it I was sitting in 6th on the bike. I had Josiah Middaugh on my wheel for the rest of the ride. When we pulled into transition their was pretty much all of us together going onto the run I ran the best i could for the run fitness i had and came in 6th or 7th. The fun part of the race was their was not a lot separating us all so you could not let up once. Cool idea to do a off road super sprint i had so much fun with it and I think all the other guys had fun with it too. Saturday was the big day 1500m swim 28ish km on the mtb and 9-10km on the run. My swim I was very happy with came out 5th out of the water with a time of around 17:25 (it was short) I had a great transition and felt pretty good on the bike. After the first Lap I had moved my way up to Second Behind Dan Hugo. I then held that for another 2 laps till Craig then Josiah went by me. I got off the bike and was unsure what the body was going to do so I just made sure I picked a run speed that would not have me fall apart. I was happy with my run considering the injury I had over come, but I just could not attack on the run but held on for 7th place overall in the most Competive off road PRO race I have been apart of. I leave feeling very good about where I am going in this sport and being the youngest guy in the Race at 21 I have a ton of time to get better and develop my endurance and skills. I would Like to Thanks all my Sponsors and Supporters It would not be possible with out you!

Whistler Canada Training Camp

Turnpike Racing is excited to Announce Its first Training Camp in beautiful Whistler Canada Aug 16th- 23rd There will be 2 different camps offered, off road triathlon camp and road triathlon camp. All skill levels and family members welcome. Accommodation will be in the Athletes village. Stay in the same places all the Olympians from 2010 stayed. Once in a life time opportunity. Prizes will be given out all week From Aqua Sphere Rudy Project CEP Altra ESI grips Xtenex For more information, Please Contact Head Coach Karsten Madsen 519 998 6769 karstenmadsen@live.com Please pass this along to anyone you feel would enjoy this trip/camp

Looking forward to some big racing

This is the first year since 2009 that I have really started to feel excited to race. I have been putting together training again really well. I have been swimming a mix with university of Waterloo and a bit on my own. I need to up my number with the university I never get the same return from swimming on my own. I am still swimming most open water 1500 in about 20min and want to crack into the 19 range more time I can put on the weaker swimmers the better. This year I'm going to work on my open water swimming my pool times are not reflecting the people I come out of the water with. As for cycling last week I rode 279km and did 2 brick workouts one of them being 5km tempo/hard i wont give up that time (it surprised me how fast it was) The running for me has been rolling nice since my Labrum injury been getting a full mix of tempo speed work and distance my long run sits at 23km and will Max this year at 25ish km. Im so excited to race I was looking at some last year results from Xterra Southeast champs and if I can do the same time as last year I will be in 8th spot but I think its not unlikely to see my self in around 6th with some better fitness etc and better luck on the bike. I don't normally compare results year to year but when you start feeling fitter then last year its hard not to look. My line up on race day I will be riding a new bike this year Specialized s-works Epic From GEARS bike shop with Shimano xtr (after all the problems I had with sram xx it was easy for me to go back to what I have used for years) My bucket will be Rudy Project Windmax, light and great air flow and looks awesome! My glasses will be Rudy Project again all the glasses they make feel and feel awesome on your face. I will change it up race to race but I am a very big fan of the genetyk race suit will be Champion System pumped to use the new material they came out with feels awesome! running shoes will be taken care of by Altra full zero drop line up great shoes! CEP has my Back on compression for before during and after the race ! did some skiing in march in Vermont nice place think i will go back in the summer for training hear the mtbing is awesome!