happy new year

Hopefully mine will have many kms ahead ;)

2011 totals

Swim	278:44	872,412 m
Run	284:28	4,069.4 km
Bike	665:44	23,731 km
Other	11:25	0 km
Total	1240:21	28,672.8 km

tomorrows ride

The first "race" of the season

60 km MTB race with tons of climbing...

It was very close to Vanessas hometown so i really needed to make a good impression ;)
I cleaned the dust from my MTB bike that still had some leftovers of The Trans Portugal back in May and went for it.
The course was awesome and Super tough, i felt quite dizzy in the first kms with the always fast pace but i managed to lead the race till km 20 with another guy. at that time a misplaced signal sent the top 20 or so atheletes out of course and probably (me and the other guy) almost 10km where done out of the course. After returning to the spot, that had the signal already and since i really wanted to make it a hard training day i went like nothing happened. left that group and started hunting something that was basically the guy ahead, had no idea where i was classification wise. From 1:30h i really felt like flying and just one guy survived to my hunting skills by a scant 50 meteres ;)

It was a great days with a tremendous course, i was happy with legs

here is the top 30


Pos. Dorsal Nome Equipa Tempo
1 022 Renato Gaspar RG Ladrilhos/Hilzy 2:56:44
2 071 Sérgio Marques Triatlo clube TAP 2:57:06
3 241 João Nunes CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 2:58:32
4 164 Luís Augusto Individual 2:59:26
5 181 Paulo Simões CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 3:00:40
6 180 Tiago Fragata CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 3:01:15
7 288 Joel Lucas 3:04:15
8 218 Adelino Camacho BTT Caldas Aluvia 3:04:55
9 151 Vítor Costa Individual 3:04:59
10 159 Hugo Fernandes individual 3:06:10
11 280 Vitor Lourenço 3:06:59
12 148 Carlos Marta Individual 3:07:20
13 060 Manuel Ferreira viveiros vitor lourenço 3:07:50
14 062 Mário J. Amaro BTT Campello 3:07:50
15 113 Ricardo Vicente LabrugaBikeTeam 3:07:50
16 160 Renato Fidalgo A.D.C.R Painho- Btt Santa Susana 3:08:30
17 175 Alexandre Esteves CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 3:14:00
18 176 Pedro Pereira CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 3:16:50
19 269 Carlos Pedro 3:18:25
20 127 Sérgio Dias Lusitano Bike Team  3:18:55
21 182 David Ventura CSRDOTA/CARBBOOM/EXTRUSAL 3:20:00
22 128 Carlos Nascimento Os Estravadinhos Da Bike 3:20:55
23 137 João Rêgo BTT Caldas Aluvia 3:21:20
24 217 Paulo Capinha AdN BTT 3:22:30
25 216 Renato Vieira Já-Tagarro 3:23:00
26 065 Hugo Crescido Casa do Benfica - Btt - Charneca de Caparica 3:24:22
27 275 Filomena Paulo 3:24:22
28 009 Jorge Paiva Individual 3:32:15
29 136 João Lopes LabrugaBikeTeam 3:32:15
30 284 Renato Silva 3:32:15

the holiday ride

holidays are alway good to put some miles in ;)

sunday's ride

lets oil the engine

Winter training, everyone likes it right?

Well i have started training first with some weeks of very ramdom stuff then the past weeks have already been of some decent scheduled training.

The goal is to have an early race in 2012, Melbourne is without a doubt the favorite in my short list but is a hell of a ride to get there well... Neverthless and since i like working out, ive been doing so without being really sure what to do race wise, sugestions are welcome ;)

I recently introduced Yoga in my training with my good friend Carlos from CP Yoga, one hell of a core strength workout, i was humbled. Of course going straight to an intermediate class is part of the toughness. 

Im not happy with my swim milieage right now as i have been waiting for my favorite pool to be 100% open to the public thus bringing my regular group back to normal training. Other than that running and biking have seen a lot of high intensity, short duration interval almost everyday. so far i have been feeling pretty well.

tomorrows bike ride

8:30 at the usual meeting point

tomorrows route

Ive been posting my routes somewhere else and ill post them here from now on. At least the ones for weekend warriors ;) always a good size peloton

here is tomorrows +- 2h ride

the meeting point is as usual, for me, parking lot of the swimming pool in Estadio Nacional.

Peter Reid

He was my favorit athlete, its not the first time i said this, always good to see this:

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Triathlete+Peter+Reid+among+latest+enter+Canadian+Sports+Hall+Fame/5677830/story.html

2011 racing photos

Lots of Kms of racing this year. here is a best overview of it in photos.

Porto Santo half ironman

2nd, Tune up race for South Africa

Ironman South Africa

12th, wass very fit but had monster stomach pain during the run

Trans Portugal

3rd, 9 stages, 1200 of MTB riding, very tough, enjoyed every km of it. left me trashed for a long time

IM Texas

11th, 2 weeks after the MTB race, was still really tired

Aveiro Half ironman

2nd, one week after texas, did my best ;)

IM France

5th, Great race, great course

IM Zurich

6th, 2 weeks after France, felt really good and actually held myself in the marathon to recover quickly to what was coming

IM Frankfurt

16th, blew up really had at 120km, 3 IM in one month can do that to you ;)

Guadalajara Half ironman

2nd, The tune up race for hawaii. I was Way better here than in the island

IM World Champs, hawaii

33th, Bad day all day, didnt really have much to leave in the course, felt really weak. but went for it the whole way

This is how i ended my season ;)