Eneas helps new generation at Westport Little Gym

TARGETRAINING Director of Endurance and Fitness, will be giving an informal coaching seminar at Westport's Little Gym on Thursday morning 11:00AM.
It is never too early to get the next generation up and rolling with endurance sports.

Weekend Recap

As Rick mentioned in the previous post, this weekend brought with it the opportunity for Target Training to team up with the organizers of the Toughman Triathlon (half ironman) and lead a preview ride of the very challenging, but very beautiful course. The day could not have been more perfect and I was excited because I hadn't ridden the course since racing it last year. We split the 75 riders into four groups with Dom leading the fastest group, Dave Booth leading Group 2, me leading Group 3 (we ended up averaging 17mph...so much for a leisurely preview ride!), and Clare volunteering to take Group 4. The overall vibe of the day was that the riders were thrilled with the course despite the multiple challenging hills, and they were appreciative of the support and advice that Target Training had to offer! Here is just one of the many gorgeous views:

With this ride bringing my total mileage for the week to 165+, in addition to two swims and 25+ miles of running, I was not looking forward to putting forth a race effort today at Park City. But I have to give credit to many at TT for helping me be more prepared for this race than I thought. I've been focusing my training on both the Duathlon Worlds in Edinburgh, Scotland on Labor Day Weekend, as well as for the Toughman Triathlon the weekend after. I have been attending the various running, swimming, cycling and brick classes that TT has to offer, and have been receiving invaluable advice and coaching from Eneas and Dom. I have been heeding their advice and paying my dues and it is helping immensely! Also a huge help are the fellow TTers that push me to my limits daily during these workouts (thanks Bob, Katie, Megan, Clare, Wallace, Brett!). Being able to train with such wonderful, high caliber athletes has been priceless. So anyway, back to today's race...

Today was the Park City Olympic Triathlon in Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT. Target Training was out in force...Eneas, Bob La Banca, Katie Bottini, David Yockelson (fresh off a Central Park Tri victory), Max Veiga, Kim Driscoll, John Cook, and a few other TT tri suits out there, along with Megan Kelly, the Freyre family, and Justin cheering us on! And when I say out in force, I mean it: Eneas, Bob, and John won their age groups, David was 2nd in his AG by only 6 secs back, and injured Max was 3rd in his AG! Katie was 2nd overall female, and I ended up 1st overall female! So you can see what I mean about giving credit to many at TT for helping me be more prepared for this race than I thought! Thanks to my husband, I have some great shots of the day of both the action and the awards!

Eneas:

Bob:

Yocks (the 2nd was taken at the finish line...so close!):

Max (the other 2 in his AG were no-shows at awards, so Max claimed 1st!):

John:

Katie:

Me (and Megan :):

Weekend activities galore

Two rides from TT today. Great weather, good turnout! Carlos and Brett and Matt led the rides.

Today was the course preview of Toughman Triathlon. Rich Izzo is the organizer of this event.  The event is http://www.westchestertoughman.com/.  "Coaches from Target Training of Westport CT will be on hand at the 2010 Toughman Clinic to lead and follow athletes as well as answer questions. Additionally, a TT support vehicle will be present during the bike portion of the clinic".  Eneas and Dom were there along with David and Kristen and Clare. And about 75 racers previewing the course.

Also today was bike race in Prospect Park NYC and a bike race called Capital Region Road Race near Albany.

Sunday is the Park City Olympic distance race and I believe that David Yockleson will be there along with Kristen and Katie. Max and Eneas are also racing it.  I think a bunch of others but I don't have everyone's name so please write in so I can add to the list.

Enjoy the races and the rides!

Summer Time Trial Serries 40K Results

Congratulations to Robert Labanca for winning the series!
Those that did not get a chance to complete some or all of the serries may contact me directly to set up a make up date.
Eneas Freyre
Eneas@ttwestport.com

40k
Name
Time
Ave. Spd MPH
1
Robert Labanca
59:39:00
25
2
Michael Kirby
1:02:40
23.8
3
Eric Goodman
1:05:00
22.9
4
Brad Hard
1:05:08
22.9
5
Kristen Budden
1:05:55
22.6
6
Andrew Schwartz
1:06:43
22.4

Race result highlights from this past weekend (Aug 7/8)

Ed Angeli won his 3rd race of the season with a big victory at the New England State Championships held at Barkhamsted Reservoir in Northwest Connecticut -- the Tokeneke Classic.  A 66 mile race, it features 6,600 feet of climbing and a finishing 5% 2 mile climb.  Ed won it solo -- and did it against a strong field of 35+ masters competitors.   Ed previously won Bear Mountain Spring Classic (also quite hilly) and Tour of the Hilltowns (yes, there is a theme here -- Ed can climb...).  In any case, Ed has showcased his riding ability this year in a big way.

On the tri-front, David Yockelson won the Central Park Triathlon -- that' right -- he outright won the entire event.  Interestingly, David and Ed are almost the same age, similar in size, both very nice/good guys, and race under the TT umbrella, but haven't ridden together.  We should get the tri team and the cycling team for a group ride sometime.  Both teams have proven to be excellent.

A bunch of TTers did Tokeneke along with Ed (and Stephan Badger who is captain of the Masters team and  who usually places in every race he does but didn't this time): Mike Kirby got 3rd place in the Cat 5 race at Tokeneke (sweet Mike!); Trevor McLean got 18th in the Cat 3 race and was only 34 seconds back from the winner (Trevor is one of the younger Cat 3's out there along with Little Max who was sick with a fever Sunday); Bryce May and David Lane successfully completed the Cat 4 and Cat 5 races, respectively.

If there were other results from this past weekend -- please email eneas@ttwestport.com. 

By the way, Eneas podiumed at Nationals in the TT and finished in 7th place in the road race.  While Eneas always has high expectations, we congratulate him on the podium result.

This week is the Capital Region Road Race in Albany and also the Blistered Butt Road Race in Prospect Park plus a criterium in Brentwood Long Island and a crit in Fall River MA (probably too far for most of us).

And of course tomorrow there is the TT TT -- good luck for all those competing.