On my way to Budapest

01-09-2010

Last year, when I raced as an age-grouper, I qualified for the ITU Age Group Triathlon World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Racing as an elite at the 2010 Canadian Nationals took a lot of my mental focus for the past few months. Budapest seemed like a pending to-do item on the horizon. Now, I’m less than a week from heading overseas and less than two weeks from racing. It feels surreal.

I recently had a great chat with a few of the NTC guys who encouraged me to prepare for a very competitive race. I am really happy with my effort and Canadian ranking from Kelowna, but that race taught me a new level of suffering. Perfect. Correspondently, my recovery after the race was longer and slower than any other race of this season. It took over a week for me to return to normal and start delivering proper times and efforts in my training sessions! I am preparing for this race and I will be ready to excel on Sept. 12th.

After, I turn around and come back home immediately to jump back into grad school. Sadly, this Euro trip won’t be a vacation.