Circuit Training! *Barely legal under Geneva Convention against Torture*

Kriti does the worm

Thursday night was Circuit Training for the Jovents. Mar, Kriti, Marc, Matt, and I met at Cincinnati Sports Club for an hour of pain and suffering. Oh, I should say exercise and good time together - there was plenty of both. 

Marc and Mar make it look easy

Marc led us through a circuit of ~ 15 quad-searing, core-building stair steps, burpee jumps, planks, worms, tricep pushups, front lunge, side lunge, abd curls, ... well there was more, but I passed out sometime around then.

Matt and David, Disco fever

We made it through the circuit : 30+ minutes of non-stop, uh, fun. It was a great workout, but really exhausting, and I was so glad to be done.

Then from Marc it was  "OK, round two! Stair steps. Let's go!"

Mar and Kriti climb the stairway to heaven

It seemed less fun the second time through. And today I hurt everywhere. Is this good for cycling? Judging from how Matt and Marc race up the hills, I guess so! 

Matt chilling!

We'll be back for more next week.

Happy like a fish in the sea...Improving the swim

Our swimming sessions for the Mesocyclcle#4 are done so today was pefect for a training focus on the thechnic. David joined Marc and I for a first team swim at the Cincinnati sport Club. I think we can officialy consider now that David is back in Triathlon!!!

After warming up, Marc gave us the insctruction for each exrcice that we repeat for 100yds....We are going for all kind of arms, legs, breathing and general form drills.

To finish, Mar (Marc's wife) who is a real swimmer, records us on 50yds to comment our main issues and what we have to correct first (But that's a top secret files). Next time, we will use a GoPro for an underwater movie. Last 300yds focusing on Mar valuable comments  and it's time for a shower and for fueling up as  always the water make us hungry.

1hr swimmimg  in a great atmosphere and lot of fun.

When winter gives us a cold recess!

It's incredible but this weekend we had a very nice weather!
It's true that we are not having a bad winter compare with the passed year but still really cold to enjoy riding or running outside.
Back to this weekend we reach temperatures of 10-12 C or 50-54 F, both days. On Saturday Matt Sertorio ran in the Topo Trail Series and you can read how good he did it here:

http://jovent79us.blogspot.com/2015/02/topo-trail-series-5-caesar-creeka-taste.html

And today seem to be better than Saturday but as soon as we woke up we realize that gonna be a taught ride! Temperatures were good but the wind was terrible! grgrgrgrgrgrgrgr I remember the windy days in Barcelona riding on the N-II, I prefer to climb crazy than ride in flat with all the wind. For this reason we decide to do hills around Cincinnati in Ohio and crossing the river to climb in Kentucky.

Starting at 9am in the meeting point Marimont and  riding 117 km in a moderate pace 26 km/h average but with a good climbs at the end. Is not our best moment but still a lot of time till October when we are planning to do Barcelona IM.

https://www.strava.com/activities/252288532

For us (David, Matt and me) changing the bkool (trainer) for the outdoor ride it's like new batteries for our legs feeling the fresh air in our lungs it's much better than sweeting crazy in a closed room.
We don't know when we gonna ride again in the road but probably will be in March, let's see what the winter bring us the next months.

Good ride with best company!

Road to Barcelona!