Bike training after a business trip yestarday

Well, as I said, I will travel a lot this week and need to try to train as much I can, so, after a business trip to Cuiaba, at Mato Grosso state, I return yesterday and wakeup this early morning, at 5h30 AM for my bike training.

The training should be done yestarday, but, for trip reason , I postpone for today and it’s a very important training for my ironman triathlon race. Was a small bike training, but, not soft. I ride 20minutes very slow, 34.5km (3 lap of 11.5km) without stop and ride more 20minutes to relax (sounds like possible ).

The great in this ride was the progressive times that I get for each lap, as the following:

1 – 33.9km/h
2 – 35.4km/h
3 – 37.9km/h

Now, need to arrange my time to run this week and prepare my luggage to another business trip, this time to the northwest, Recife (Pernambuco State) and Goiania (Goias State).

See you soon,

Ironman Brazil Triathlon 2010 @ Florianopolis – Is comming 28 days

Hi folks,

After an injury in my rigth knee, the famous Iliotibial Band Syndrome, I stayed off during two weeks and back this week to run. Of course, that I return to run very calm and carefully, but I just do that after consult with my ortopedic doctor and he let me go back to training.

I ran 1 hour on friday and the ammazing 2h30 on saturday after riding during 2h30. I waked up this morning very tired and with a lot of pains in my legs, arms and all other parts of my body.  

Today, I rided 2 hours in my cervelo P2C 2009 and swim 1.200 meters, just to relax my body and muscles, specially my legs.

How this week I will travel a lot by business, I need to enjoy tommorow and do some training, because I will travel on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to different places with a big difficult to training.

The race is comming and my running is nothing good need to train more and more.

See you training,

St. Croix Ironman 70.3 Triathlon

Hi folks, I was looking for my team and coach results from St Croix Ironman 70.3 and reading the first lines I sow the world championship Terenzo Bozzone as the champion of St. Croix 2010.

My team had some issues and finished well, but not so much as they could. I will wait my coach arrives in Brazil to ask him about the race and difficulties. After that, I will post some tips from this race course and problems.

Following, you can get the top professional male and female results:

1 BOZZONE, TERENZO 5/1/1 /MPRO 00:25:04 02:20:47 01:20:11 04:06:02
2 O’DONNELL, TIM 2/2/2 /MPRO 00:25:01 02:20:55 01:20:43 04:06:39
3 BUTTERFIELD, TYLER 8/7/3 /MPRO 00:26:05 02:24:29 01:20:04 04:10:38
4 CUNNINGHAM, RICHIE 3/4/4 /MPRO 00:25:03 02:22:32 01:24:05 04:11:40
5 CARTMELL, FRASER 1/6/5 /MPRO 00:24:58 02:22:55 01:25:14 04:13:07
6 KRIAT, MAXIM 9/8/6 /MPRO 00:26:06 02:28:19 01:19:05 04:13:30
7 VAN LIERDE, FREDERICK 4/5/7 /MPRO 00:25:03 02:22:44 01:26:44 04:14:31
8 GUILLAUME, ROMAINE 7/3/8 /MPRO 00:25:08 02:21:15 01:33:14 04:19:37
9 EVOE, PATRICK 12/10/9 /MPRO 00:29:22 02:29:54 01:24:09 04:23:25
10 MORRISON, CATRIONA 2/1/1 /WPRO 00:27:58 02:38:29 01:24:39 04:31:06
11 PATRCEVIC, DJAN 10/11/10 /MPRO 00:27:01 02:40:55 01:25:58 04:33:54
12 WARRINER, SAM 3/2/2 /WPRO 00:27:58 02:39:00 01:35:30 04:42:28
13 O’HARA, ERIN 7/4/3 /WPRO 00:31:13 02:49:34 01:33:40 04:54:27
14 MAEAFIEB, ARLAND 13/12/11 /MPRO 00:31:38 02:45:29 01:39:34 04:56:41
15 GOLLNICK, HEATHER 5/3/4 /WPRO 00:28:15 02:51:05 01:41:03 05:00:23
16 GILLEN, DOMINIC 11/9/12 /MPRO 00:27:06 02:28:04 02:05:21 05:00:31
17 LOVATO, AMANDA 8/5/5 /WPRO 00:32:34 02:49:23 01:41:15 05:03:12

Starting 2010 for Triathlon and Ironman Races

Hi folks, sorry to stay to much time away from here, but, my daughter was coming and my last 2009 quarter was very hard. The reason is that as a salesman, I need to accomplish my quota, as we need to cross the finish line, so, try to make my quota selling software and also prepare all stuff to wait my little isabela, isn’t a easy job.
But now, after her born, I needed to travel to Orlando, florida, to participate the biggest Lotus Software event, the Lotusphere 2010. Software and other stuff on the side, now I need to focus at my daughter and my dream to finish an ironman race this year.
To be honest, I entry in two races, believes or not, one close to other triathlon races (ironman brazil and ironman cour de alene)
The reason is that ironman brazil was sold out, so, I entry for ironman cour de alene, but, after some months, during the Ironman Triathlon 70.3 in Brazil, I get the entry to ironman brazil, so, here I am, with a baby, a job and the races
I will try to figure out to accomplish this goal and will keep all you informed about my movements. (when possible hihih)
I really wish you a very Happy new year and great races and training.

Back to Training and Blogging

Hi folks, this post is just to say that I am back. After some months working and traveling  a lot by job, I am here backing to training. During this period that I disappeared, I finished the Ironman 70.3 Brazil in a good time and position. But now, after that, I am injuried and working hard to treat to finish the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, tampa.

I had 10 weeks to train to the ironman 70.3 world championship, but after 2 weeks, I get a Achilles tendinitis and stay stopped during 4 weeks. Now, after start again, I am still feeling a soft pain and working hard with ice treatment and some massage with anti inflammatory gels.

I would like to improve my time this year, but, I don’t think that I will, as I am injured and didn’t train running sufficiently.

Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador in the Tour de France

Hello athletes, how are you ? It’s Le Tour de France month and I am trying to watch how much I can, but I am traveling and working so much that I even can’t see the results in the website www.letour.com . Putting my personal issues out, I watch Le tour de France yestarday and was so excite with this stage. Alberto Contador (Astana) show for what he cames and Lance Armstrong (Astana) feel it. I am a huge Lance Armstrong fan, but, need to agree that Contador is extremely strong and prepaired to win. I still believe that Lance can appear as Fenix, but, until now, who does that was Carlos Sastre and Cadel Evans.

I was impressed with Sastre (Cervelo Test Team) and Evans (Silence Lotto) performance during this stage and cannot forgot to talk about Andreas Kloden (Astana), that had a great performance and just didn’t do more because should improve Lance until the finish line.

Le Tour de France, Stage 9

Who are not watching Le tour de france this weekend ? If you aren´t, you should. It´s a great moment to see good athletes cycling in a beatiful place and races. I am trying to watch during the weekend and it´s a great way to be motivated and go to train after the races.

Today We had a great race, with a victory from 2 cyclists (P. Fedrigo BBox Team and F. Pellizotti Liquigas Team) that scape from the group during the mountains and won with less than 1 minute from others that have Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, R. Nocentti, Cadel Evans, Carlos Sastre, Andreas Kloden and others.

Now, R. Nocentti continues with the yellow jersey and Alberto Contador is just 6 seconds behind Nocentti. Lance Armstrong is closer with just 2 second behing Alberto Contador. After Armstrong, the next athlete is Levi Leipheimer with 39 seconds behind the leader, Nocentti. The better team until now is the Astana Team, the same team that have Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer. Is this team strong ?? hihihih

Tomorrow Le tour de france will have a rest day, so, the next stage will occur at 14/07. See you later.

Indoor Training for Triathlon and Cycling Races

Hi folks, today I will talk a little about indoor training, specially because I am need to do it a lot and since I started to training for this year, at february, I lost a lot of my cycling training because I need to travel a lot to work and even when I am I my town, Brasilia, I need to work a lot of time until late and cannot go to ride after 9PM, or should I go ?

Well, trying to fix it and training a little bit more (I hope), I bought a cycleops indoor trainer, the cycleops Fluid 2 (http://cycleops.com/p-309-fluid.aspx) its a great weapon to your indoor traning. It´s really useful, because just this week, I had 2 days that was in Brasilia and arrived late in home, so, I just put my Cervelo P2C into the Cycleops Fluid 2 Trainer and start to ride for 40 and 50 minutes.

A great extra feature that came with cycleops Trainer is the ¨Race Day¨ DVD from realRides with Robbie Ventura. It´s a nice DVD training program that help you to stay motivated and training more serious with it. It´s better than just spin your wheels without interval training or simulation when you just training watching a movie or listening your favorites music. You can configure your training program using the RaceDay DVD and in this dvd, you will participate with Robbie in a USA masters race with a lot of intensite changes and I am really recommend this video.

The greatest cycling race, Le Tour de France is back

Hi folks, Le tour de france is back and Lance Armstrong also. Yes, I was in my bed yestarday to rest and saw the first stage, a time trial stage with strong athletes. I was out of cycling races and didn´t know the best athletes and favorites, but now, I am updated

The most favorites to win Le Tour de France 2009 is Alberto Contador (from Spain and won Le Tour de France at 2007), Carlos Sastre (from Spain and won Le Tour de France last year 2008) and Cadel Evans (from Australia and second place at 2007 and 2008). Of course that I believe that Lance Armstrong can do a great job and could be a surprise to everybody, but, the jornalists is not talking so much about Lance, and you know what ?? just wait some stages and check Lance Armstrong results.

Yestarday, during the time trial and first stage, 15.5km, Fabian Cancellara, from swiss, was the best and prove why he is the world champion in Time Trial races, he win with more than 17seconds from the second place tha was Alberto Contador. Lance Armstrong was the 10 place with 20 seconds more than Contador, that is from the same Team (Astana).

Today, had the second stage, with 187km, and without a winner alone, a lot of athletes arrived togheter with 4h 30 02″. So, the overal standing until now is the same of yestarday, with Fabian Cancellara with the yellow T-shirt.

Standing	Rider	Rider number	Team	Time	Gaps
1.	CANCELLARA Fabian	33	TEAM SAXO BANK	4h 49′ 34″
2.	CONTADOR Alberto	21	ASTANA	4h 49′ 52″	+ 00′ 18″
3.	WIGGINS Bradley	58	GARMIN – SLIPSTREAM	4h 49′ 53″	+ 00′ 19″
4.	KLÖDEN Andréas	23	ASTANA	4h 49′ 56″	+ 00′ 22″
5.	EVANS Cadel	11	SILENCE – LOTTO	4h 49′ 57″	+ 00′ 23″
6.	LEIPHEIMER Levi	24	ASTANA	4h 50′ 04″	+ 00′ 30″
7.	KREUZIGER Roman	93	LIQUIGAS	4h 50′ 06″	+ 00′ 32″
8.	MARTIN Tony	76	TEAM COLUMBIA – HTC	4h 50′ 07″	+ 00′ 33″
9.	NIBALI Vincenzo	95	LIQUIGAS	4h 50′ 11″	+ 00′ 37″
10.	ARMSTRONG Lance	22	ASTANA	4h 50′ 14″	+ 00′ 40″

 

You can follow Le Tour de France watching ESPN.

Eletric Bicycle, not for triathletes, but, for everybody

Hi folks, after a weekend with a lot of triathlon training (running and cycling), ok, swimming is also part of a triathlon training plan, but, during the weekend, I prefer to do sports that is hardest for me. How we need to work to pay our bills, bikes, shoes and triathlon travel, I needed to travel sunday to Rio Branco (Acre-AC) to visit some customers and the funny is that was my first trip to the North in Brazil. My job is hard and I need to work a lot, but, even arriving in Rio Branco at 3AM on monday and departing to Brasilia at 2AM on tuesday, yes, believe or not, I am still have time to training. I talked about my trip to Rio Branco because during the flight, that I should sleep, but didn’t , I readed the TAM magazine and found some tips about to save the planet, the famous green iniciative. they are talking about an eletric bicycle made by Grain Britain.

It’s a new lightweight eletric bicycle with eco-iconic looks is firmly targeting wold-be bicycle commuters who are put off by the thought of turning up o work in need of a shower. Gocycle, set to launch this month, uses an injection-molded, lightweight magnesium alloy that’s stronger than plastic, at a fraction of the price of carbon fiber (like cervelo P2c, cervelo P3C, pinarello F4 and others). The bike’s chain is completely encased, so no grease on trousers. Gocycle also disassembles into a soft bag or white hard case for portability and easy storage in small apartments. For a bike of its size or weight, Gocycle’s most innovative feature is the micro-sized eletric motor in its front wheel hub. wich switches on with the push of a button. An in-frame battery pack holds 20 minutes worth of power, more than enough to help cyclists up a hill without breaking into a sweat.

www.gocycle.com

Of course that you didn’t will use this bike to training for your next ironman triathlon event, but, could be a great choice for those friends that needs a hand to start a better life quality or those who are thinking about save the planet and change your car for a bike like these.

Now, I will leave this post and will try to sleep a little bit. Otherwise, I will have problems to swim and run today , and guest what ??? today is my birthday.

See you later and have a nice training.