The racing season is upon us. Maybe I should say “upon you” since my plans for this year do not include a lot of racing. It is getting hot out there and races are starting to take place. We are having a big melt down in Winter Park. The snow is meting fast. I can now see my drive way and my son was riding his bike on it again. I may even do an outside ride this week.
My first item for this post is my April tri camp. I am hosting a triathlon camp in Boulder Colorado April 27-29 2007. It would be great if some of you can make it. It is a learning and training camp. Last year my camps were more training and I actually required a certain fitness to participate. This year the training part is somewhat minimized and although you want to be fit there is no speed requirements. Here is a link to the camp announcement.
Camp page
My second item is about my Hawaii Ironman gossip post a couple of months ago. Remember I mentioned how Norman Stadler was totally out of control and shouted expletives to all the doubters that said he could not win. Peter Reid was quoted as saying that Norman could not run fast enough to win again and I guess Norman was not happy about it and let the crowd know his feelings rigth upon winning. Well here is proof of it with this photo. I have no idea how someone got a hold of this footage but it shows Mr Stadler giving the crowd a little birdie. If you look at the NBC coverage you notice they cut out the scene right before his arm started to go up. But the footage exists and someone got a hold of it and here it is. What a charmer. Norman then went on to call Chris Maccormack a drafter which ignited a huge war of words.
Chris McCormack was my pick to win it all last year. But he came one minute shy and he is hoping he can get that minute in 2007. But that one minute is very hard to get so Chris is counting on Mark Allen to help him get that minute and have him become the next Ironman World Champion. Not a problem is my thinking. So now I really have to choose him as my favorite for next October. Just as many of you that are trying to build their aerobic engine 'Macca' (his nickname) is too. A body is a body, we are all still flesh and bones. Macca is just more talented than mosts but still needs base and more base. Read his own diary entry.
Macca's diary Oh yes Macca is coming to train in Boulder this summer. Maybe I can have him come meet the campers if he is in town then. I have to look into it.
My third item is a little about nutrition. Food companies is the search for the almighty dollar are always in the process of adding chemicals to food for the sole purpose of keeping the food as fresh as possible. A few years ago Mark Allen pointed out to me how bad trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils are for our body. Yet if you walked up and down the supermarket aisle and read the labels you will find these beasts everywhere. Just try to find any snack without it. Forget about it. This stuff is so bad it was banned in New York City recently. So now here comes this guy that writes a book about the 39 ingredients in a twinkie. A twinky is a popular cream filled snack about 2 inches long and one inch wide. Yet is has 39 ingredients! Many of these are again only there to keep the twinkie fresh and on the supermarket aisle for a long time. The author of the book titled “ Twinkie, Deconstructed" is Steve Ettliger. He promised his editor that he will visit in person the source of each ingredient. So here he was 1600 feet down a mine shaft in Wyoming looking at miners dig the rocks where an ingredient called trona was found. Apperently it is part of baking soda and this is where it is found. Granted baking soda is in many foods we eat and it may be fine but this is just one ingredient! I’ll never look at a twinkie the same way. I’ll keep my kids away from them if I can help it.