Preparing for the Mooseman 70.3 in New Hampshire

Well, I just wanted to check in before heading out to my first race at the Mooseman 70.3, since I’ve settled into my new home in Boulder, Colorado. I have been over here for nearly a month, and I’m feeling really comfortable with my training right now.

I was really itching to get out of Port Macquarie last month because I felt the colder weather was really hampering my training. And I wanted to get over to the North American summer… ha ha. I arrived in Boulder, Colorado, and it snowed my first night here. In fact for the first few weeks of training, there were typically piles of snow packed along the sides of the road. Fortunately for me, I brought over some of my Scody winter training gear, so I was rugged-up pretty well.

Matty White is my new roommate for the next six months, and he had already arrived in our apartment a week before I showed up. It’s been a blast living full-time with another professional triathlete, and we have been smashing out the Ks on the bike. Port Macquarie’s young cycling legend, Lachlan Morton, is also living in Boulder and racing with Team Garmin’s development team. He has been doing a lot of training with us. We also have another Australian Pro, Tim Reed, who is not living with us, but he’s out there doing a lot of the same training with us. It’s great to have a bunch of like-minded guys to train with, and the fact that they’re all Aussies is just a bonus. Ha ha.

I feel that I’m back into some good fitness, and I’ve adjusted from the travel over here. I’m excited to head over to New Hampshire, which is in the northeast of the United States, a few hours’ drive from Boston, Massachusetts. The race is called the Mooseman 70.3, and this is the first year that they’ve held this race. I’m looking forward to travelling over there with Matty White (a.k.a. Fatty Black), and I think we are both going to go really well considering our fitness and training. Make sure to tune into Ironmanlive at the Ironman.com website for race updates. These should be coming in late Sunday evening (Australian Eastern Time).

Cheers for now,

Tim