This road leads to Kona

As many people interested in triathlon or road cycling must be doing I'm following the 2005 TDF with huge interest... le tour is amazing, the landscape, the bikes (las bicis), the riders, the jersey colours... Of course I would like Armstrong to win this years tour, but that's far from the reason I have followed the race day in day out: it's inspiring.. Armstrong and his sqad has lots to tell, but so does the others teams and on saturday I just found an old magazine with an interview with Joseba Beloki (anyone remembers his hard crash on 2003'stour???) which is a great example of all the efforts a pro cyclist has to do to stay at the top... And thinking about that reminds me about the king of "hard work"... Ekimov.... I just can't speel his first name, but surely I will remember him many years from now... He is absent of this years tour and have been missed dearly by the discovery team but even so he must be inspiring.. Eki (as his friends call him - I'm not one of them, of course) has been riding for more than 20 years and another day I found out that the has 25 notebooks fulfilled of trainning logs.. amazing? No... it's just what the was supposed to do... or at least he bleieves that... Have you ever found someone who has never missed a trainning session? Me either... But he didn't.. not even a single one... even in those hard, cold and wet days.... I just don't know how he does but I certainly admire him for this... I will remember him when thinking about skipping my next master swim class : -)

I haven't written for a while, but my trainning has followed the schedule... Some days ara good, some are better..I'm enjoying it... even despite the winter... the cold and the rain (and I haven't got a flue!!!!!!!). Swimming has been tough, running has been freezing and cycling has been INDOOR...

(I'm still working on my "smart" goals... I'll end it up soon!).