Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Day 1: Tuesday May 13th After two long days of travel, we were ready to move our bodies. Typically, Wednesday before a race is our "biggest" day of training but since we didn't do anything for the past 48 hours, it was important for me to wake up my body with a good load. This would also allow for a few days of recovery before the race.  Our Airbnb is located at the Colony Club, which is across the street from the Plus Fariones Suite Hotel. Our professional athlete Bara (from Czech) is staying with us. She arrived on Friday so that she could spend a few extra days on the island in her final prep before the race. We have a nice ocean view and we are a quick 5 minute walk to the race start/venue. We are also within walking distance to the grocery. There are countless restaurants, ice cream shops and stores along the beach (which is also the run course for the Ironman).  Around 9am, we walked to the Centro Deportivo to go for a swim. The entry fee was 15 Euros each (day pass...

Around 9am we started our 5-ish hour drive (plus losing an hour) to the Atlanta International Airport (I made a reservation at the  Peachy International Parking  as that is where we park for our international flights). I gave us a buffer of 4 hours before our flight in the case of traffic. As we were driving, I noticed that our predicted arrival changed by 90 minutes (later) due to a road closed. Luckily we saw it in advance and could get off at the next exit and ended up only losing around 20 minutes.  We arrived to the parking area around 3:30pm and took the shuttle to the international airport. The ATL international airport was chaotic as usual. After checking in our two suitcases and two bike bags, we went through TSA pre-check and made our way to the Centurion Lounge. There was a wait so we instead went to the Delta lounge. We enjoyed some food and spent the next hour in the lounge, getting a little work done on the computer.  We boarded our Delta flight around ...