2015 Race Plans and some other stuff too

2015 is going to be a fun year for me racing.  Why?  Because I am going to race a LOT.  I promised myself at IMTX I would take 2015 off from the IM Distance (unless of course I get my Kona Lottery slot), but that does not mean I am taking the year off.  Nope far from that.  Instead I am going to race a lot of different distances, do some more running, rock the dirty bike and spin the legs on a bunch of gran fondos and gravel rides.

Here is the current schedule

Date Race Distance 1-Feb Superhero 4 Miler 4 3/1/15 Murray Half 13.1 3/14/15 Prospect Park Du Oly 3/29/15 Ocean Drive Marathon 26.2 4/4/15 Fools Classic 78 miles 4/12/15 Rutgers half 13.1 4/19/15 Battenkill 68 miles 4/26/15 Jersey Devil Xterra 5/3/15 Devil Man HalfLite 5/17/15 Great Adventure Tri Oly 6/7/14 Challenge Quassy Oly 6/14/15 Eagleman 70.3 6/28/15 CAC 70.3 7/12/15 HITS Kingston OLY 7/19/15 NJ state oly 7/25/15 IMLP Will be at Bike Aid 6 8/2/15 Tour of the Catskills 77 miles 8/9/15 TRI AC OLY 8/16/15 Timberman 70.3 8/29/15 TRI WILDWOOD OLY 9/5/14 Lake George Tri OLY 19-Sep RtB Awesome Sauce  I will likely add a few more running races and definitely some dirty bike stuff too.  I am looking forward to having full schedule again- even if my travel gets in the way sometimes.  Knowing that I can train 7-10 hours a week and be in race shape will work for me.  And maybe this year I actually will crack the top 10% for USAT.  The last 5 years I have been 11-12% so just out of the magic number.  Speaking of training I am doing a decent amount so far this year.  Sherpa sis and I are running in a yearlong virtual race - 2015 miles in 2015.  In January we ran a combined 274 miles (she did 116+ I did 157+). Half way through February we are just about at the 400 mile mark.  We will be racing together on March 1st at the Murray Half Marathon.   I also got lucky enough to get an invite to the #zwiftbeta.  Zwift is a new virtual cycling game.  You ride your trainer, it takes your data and virtually represent your effort compared to others, in real time as you ride.  And the graphics are awesome.  As you ride you also compete in real time with other riders from around the world.  Today Zwift had three bikes set up at the London Bike show and they were riding the island. Cool, very cool. Here is a screen shot from a ride this week.  Zwift also directly connects to Strava so when I finish my ride is directly uploaded into my feed.  Good Stuff.  Tomorrow my plan is to ride a metric century around the island.  Which will take 21 laps.  But it is a lot of fun.   Okay that is it for now.  I will try to be more vigilant with the Blog this year...