Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Our travels started ar Monday August 10th. After a 3000 yard swim at the Y in the morning, we left our house around 11:45am and drove to ATL. I drove and thankfully, we had no traffic. We made it to our off-site parking (Peachy covered parking) before 2:30pm. We took a shuttle to the international airport and checked in for our flight with Virgin Airlines. After checking in our bags and dropping off our bikes, we went through TSA pre-check and made our way to the Centurion Lounge in terminal E. We enjoyed some good food and worked for a few hours before boarding our flight at 5:20pm.  We enjoyed our Premium seats on Virgin. I always find the Virgin crew to be very friendly. I pre-selected a Hindu Vegetarian dinner meal and it was delicious - a curry with rice and chickpeas, salad, fruit, cheese and bread. I watched the Devil Wears Prada 2 and then slept for a few hours. It was a "quick" international flight of ~7.5 hours to London Heathrow.  We arrived shortly after 7am, went...

Currently, Karel and I are traveling to Europe. We will be spending the rest of August in France.  I have been looking forward to this trip for months, but as August 15th gets closer, it is starting to feel very real. This isn't just a trip to France. It is a race, a cycling train-cation, a chance to revisit some of the places and climbs that have challenged us before, and an opportunity to experience some of the most iconic roads in cycling. First stop: Embrun From August 12–18, we'll be based in Embrun, where I'll be racing Embrunman on August 15 at 6:00 a.m. The race is no small undertaking: a 2.4 mile open water swim, a 115-mile bike (~16,000 feet elevation gain with the Col d'Izoard making an appearance before half way) and then a 26.2 mile, 3-loop run and ~1,300 feet elevation gain. The Col d'Izoard has appeared in the Tour de France around 33 times, and its summit sits at 2,361 meters (7,740 feet), making it one of the highest historic and legendary alpine p...