Last week before Nats

1 week to the USAT National Championship. I started training 9 months ago with the goal of just qualifying. I'd done two tri's in 2008 just to get my feet wet but this year I decided I was going to be competitive. I'm on a 2-3 year plan and year one has been fantastic. I've trained 6-7 days a week, many times twice a day. I've completed 8 triathlons, two 5k's, and 10k in 2009. It's been a great learning experience and I've managed to not only podium 8 times out of this years 11 races, but win my age group a few times and take a 2nd over all. Not bragging just surprised.

So it's been a great rookie year but Alabama will be on a whole different level. Looks like some x-elites and long time participants. I've looked a lot of the competition up on athlinks to see who's who but more on that in a later post.

I really need to thank my wife Jen for her unlimited support! Coach Marty tricoachmartin.com, Jim Booth(swim), Rod Haskett and Dave Placebly(run), and Steve Cooper for the bike addiction. My first year in Tri so any finish is a good one. Leaving Wed so time to start packing!