I'm finally home from my awesome 2 week trip to San Antonio. Both camps went great. The select camp was a lot of fun getting to meet athletes from other countries including Barbados, Antigua, Mexico, Guatamala, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. We did a lot of testing and I wasn't too pleased with my results but oh well. The second week was also fun as it was a camp for kids 11-18 from all over the SouthMidWest region. I was rooming with a little 11 year old boy who was basicaly the coolest kid ever. He rode the smallest road bike I've ever seen, 40cm!
My IconOne teammates Travis, and Kate Ross(Also on the junior national team) were staying the 2nd week to help as well and so we did a lot of our own workouts together. Well, at least Kate and I did and Travis jumped in when he felt like it. It's definitely a lot more fun doing tough workouts with other people next to you, pushing you and I learned a lot about sometimes just sucking it up and getting the training done even when your completely exhausted. After the second camp I stayed at Jeff and Shelly's house for the weekend to do some more training and spent all my free time in front of their TV watching the tour and doing all sorts of wacky things to my legs to help them recover.
I'm sure I still have some lingering fatigue from the last 2 weeks of training along with the fact that I've done some sort of race (bike or tri) every weekend for about the last 2 months but things haven't slowed down much. This week I'm trying to get some decent running mileage in before I leave for Maine for a 2 week trip with the UT Tyler cross country team. There I will for sure get in running shape but I'm looking forward to bringing my bike and swim stuff as well and getting to train with some of the triathletes at the school.
My next race will be USAT Junior Nationals in Colorado Springs, CO on August 9th. It will actually be my first draft legal race of the year and my last draft legal as a junior. I think I'm in good enough shape to do well there as long as I can keep improving my swim and not come out of the water too far down from the leaders. Then it's full on into my first ever cross country season were hopefully I can come out of the fall with a wicked run to throw down.
