Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

We started our triathlon season five months ago in St. George, Utah at the Ironman World Championship. Yesterday we finished our season in Molveno, Italy at the Xterra World Championship. Karel is absolutely loving the transition to off-road racing as he thrives in unpredictable, testing and challenging scenarios. As for myself, I'm feeling very unsure of myself - which is a big change from the predictability and confidence that I experienced after 16 years of long distance triathlon racing. While I'm proud of what I accomplished yesterday in 62-degree water conditions, 48-degree air temp and through deep mud on slippery roots and rocks, steep slick downhills, around very competitive and skilled riders, navigating pitchy climbs and a handful more new first time experiences, it would be wrong of me to not mention how nervous I was for all of these first-time experiences. Trying something new means that I may fail, struggle, look silly and embarrass myself. On the night before t...

On Monday morning, we went for a swim at the aquatic center and then packed up the car to head to Atlanta, Georgia. This trip to Europe felt a lot less stressful than our last trip as it was only a week and logistically, a lot easier than our month-long trip in August. We made the ~2.5 hour drive to the Atlanta airport and parked in the Park n’ Fly lot. I reserved a parking pass for the lot for only $88 for the week, which was very affordable compared to the other parking options. Logistically it's a bit more complicated as we have to take a shuttle from the parking lot to domestic and then to the international terminal. But instead of using the parking lot shuttle for our luggage and bikes, we parked at the hourly parking, checked our bags and bikes in at the airport, then drove to the parking lot so that all we had to bring with us to the airport was our carry-ons. We had to then take the domestic shuttle to the international shuttle so having only our backpacks was a lot easi...

  Distance per Karel's Garmin: 2 mile run/18 mile bike/5.7 mile run  Total time: 3:08.56 Run 1: 14:27 (7:02 min/mile, 564 feet elevation gain) Bike: 1:59.41 (9 mph, 3520 feet elevation gain) Run 2: 53.29 (9:17 min/mile, 1109 feet elevation gain) 2nd place AG (45-49) Pre Race Report Race Recap  Ocean on race morning First run  Up to 30% grade On the bike course Last loop of the bike Finish!! Finish line smiles in the rain Flora Duffy Olympic Triathlon Gold Medalist and Xterra 6x World Champion Congrats! 20+ athletes from Czech!  Podium pic So proud!