Longhorn IronMan 70.3

How it started. We Where in Las Vegas for Amanda and Oli's wedding, and for some crazy reason, some crazy person decided that we should do the Half iron man in Austin, 1.2 mile swim, 56 miles on the bike, and 13 mile run.

Here we are day after and feeling good, little knee pain, but overall pretty good. So everyone trained a little different. My training started with me getting ready for the USAW/CrossFit comp in Colorado Springs. So all I did was olympic lifting up in till 2 weeks ago. While on vacation we went and did some CrossFit WOD's at some local Box's. So that gave me 1 week and 2 days before the race. My luck I got sick and had to take 2 days off from the world to get over it. So that gave me all together about 6 days of training. My training was running 6 miles, ran that twice, biked 2 days at about 15 per, then swimming 2 days right under a mile both times. Besides that it was all CrossFit WOD's.

For me this backs up my theory about how CrossFit allows you to jump into anything and complete it. Now I don't recommend just jumping into a half with out a few Long bike rides over 30 miles and few laps around Lake 288.

Congrats to Oli for being a bad a@@, Nathan doing his first one and doing great, Chad first one and killed the swim and bike and fought through the run, David who needed a wet suite for the swim needed a tissue on the bike but killed the run, and help me on the last 2 miles.

Vacation

Me and Katie made a vacation while in Colorado Springs. While we have been here we went up the Cog Rail. 1.1 miles up and about 4 miles down with a elevation change of 2,400 ft. It was a no joke climb up.
We also stopped by RedRocks CrossFit for a little WOD. Check out the pic's, how nice would it be to step out of the box and have a view like this



We also took the Cog rail up to Pikes Peak, it was a beautiful hour ride up, but once we got up there was a cloud cover that took over the Peak.



Then today we went to Pikes Peak CrossFit, and today was the longest I have been up on my hands.



Great vacation, I will be back to Colorado Springs. Its a beautiful place with some great things to do. Oh and the food has been fantastic. Back to Houston tomorrow.
Texans vs Giants 4 days away, Lets go Texans!!!!

Colorado Springs

This past weekend Myself, Katie, Charlie, and Jane went up to Colorado Springs for the USAW/CrossFit OPEN. It was a great event with a lot of big name CrossFiters and Olympic Lifters. One of the best things about the event was, each weight class started and was over in about 2 hrs. For a lot of us CrossFiters we learned a lot about the Olympic Lifting world. I look forward to many more competitions like this, and Myself and Charlie are already talking about trying to host one. Just got to get Ursula on board, and Olyathlete.
Here are some Pics from this weekend.




Me complaining about Charlie not sitting down and resting, but you see him in the back sitting down.