You Got to do What you got to do.

i am back at it training is going well, and i will be looking for a top 5 performance at Buffalo Springs 70.3 in a few weeks time. Its Carley's birthday so she is expecting a little higher of a placing based on that factor but all you can do is show up and race and hope that your ready to rock. I watched a great movie on the weekend, The Great Debaters with Denzil Washington. I really believe everyone should rent it and experience it. A classic line in the movie that really caught my attention is when a father tells his son " you got to do what you got to do, so you can do what you want to do!" Then he asked his son what do you got to do? And the boy answered my home work. It was brilliant i feel, every aspect of your life is based on this quote. People often don't graduate from high school and become corporate CEO's or train for 1 year and win races. Life is all about working hard so you can enjoy it when you have put it in your time. Anyways great movie, so get your pop corn ready.
Talking about working hard, My home stay David Rideout is about to start a Cycling Time Trial across the USA with a team relay, and of course they are going after the World Record, so everyone check out this link it is truly amazing, Dave you rock. I received this email from Dave yesterday, check out this training that he is doing to get ready for the TT.
Brent,
Thanks for checking in last weekend was our hardest single day effort, we did 6-30 min time trials at max effort
by the end of the day we logged 95 miles, 60+ at max effort, the weekend before that we did a test run out to
Brawley, about 120 miles practicing our exchanges, it was great, especially my last pull, we were in the desert
with a great tail wind, for 10 miles I averaged 38 mph. This Saturday we will repeat our first hill climb and time trial
from 4 months ago to see our improvement, then we leave on Wed. I think you have the web site but just in case you
don't here it is.
Dave
http://www.nccyclingclub.com/North_Coast_Cycling_Club/Welcome.html

This is very motivating because i thought my cycling this week was tough. But now i will shut up and do what i got to do.
I have a great week of training so i will briefly explain some of the highlights of this week so far,
4x800m in the pool, swim fast and hold it. A good strength session on the bike, 2x20mins at low cadence big ring work, i am starting to feel strong and this big gear work is really helping out. This morning i did a hard threshold cycling workout of 5x5mins at Threshold Power and hrt, very tough with 2.5mins ez. I will report towards the end of the week, when i have some better storys about training and life but right now i am just doing what i got to do.
Cheers