Overall I'm happy with my performance and can't complain in that respect, however just missing the front pack by 20secs or so  after the first 10k is teasing ! 

Last Wednesday, I packed up the CR-V and drove from Boise, Idaho to Las Vegas, Nevada for the Xterra Wester Championships.  It’s an absolutely beautiful drive.  The mountains of Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Nevada were amazing.   And the speed limit is 80 mph. Nice.  I love a good road trip.

One of the latest training and nutrition trends in endurance sports is fasting workouts. A fasting workout is a training session before which you do not eat and during which you do not consume any calories. The purpose of a fasting workout is to deprive your muscles of the carbohydrate fuel they normally rely on, thus forcing them to burn more fat. 

I headed into Snapple Camp this year with minimal bike fitness.  My focus this winter has been running, so I let the biking slide.  I’ve done this before and the bike fitness usually comes back rather quickly after a few hard weeks of getting the rust off.  This was going to be one of those weeks.  But I was really excited to get back to the Lost River barn in Mathias, WV and to train with a bunch of my teammates for four days.