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Monthly Summary – April 2011

Here’s April 2011:

Swim: 23,835 meters
Cycling (outdoors): 373.1 miles
Cycling (indoors): 4:25 (hours)
Run: 118.7 miles
Strength Training/Yoga: 2 sessions

Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 54.5 hours

April was a good month. My training was fine and I didn’t have to take any unplanned time off, but mostly April was good because it represented my return to racing after a seven month “break” (and my return to triathlons after 13 months!). I closed out the month with a great long weekend up at Wildflower and a generally successful race.

Here are the race “vitals”:

Swim – 33:22
T1 – 2:37
Bike – 3:00:43
T2 – 2:28
Run – 1:40:48
Total – 5:19:58 (26/212 age group, 142/1240 male, 152/1667 overall)

My detailed results are here and full searchable race results are available here.

It’s a tough course that was made even more challenging on Saturday by a crazy headwind on the bike. And I posted the other day, I’ve been worried about some weaknesses in my training and the race exposed them. Hopefully I’ll learn from the experience for future races. I know I’m being cryptic, but I’ll go into it all in my race report, which I’ll hopefully post (along with a lot of photos) within a few days.

In addition to finally getting back to racing, in April I started running with the Coyotes again. I hit the trails with Jimmy five times in April. It was great to get back out there for some early mornings in the Santa Monica Mountains and I pushed myself on each run, something I hadn’t done enough of during the first few months of training this year.

My final “accomplishment” this month was that during April, my total swim and outside cycling distances for the year surpassed the amount that I swam and rode outside in all of 2010. Of course, my running distance is way, way off, but I guess that’s what being a well-rounded triathlete is all about!