2010 Season Recap

this years race season was successful in some ways, and it was disappointing in a couple ways. lets start with the disappointing ways first.

disappointing ways:

1. i did not get to race as many XTERRA races & triathlons as i wanted to
2. i did not keep up on my blog & send out updates like i'm known to do
   

successful ways:

1. i learned alot bout my body & my training schedule in regards to how i became very fast by spring/summertime. what i did new this year worked
2. i did finish 12 races this year: 1-1st place, 1-2nd place, 2-3rd place, 1-4th place, 4-4th place, 1-6th place, & 2-8th place finishes - ALL TOP 10 finishes!
3. i picked up 2 new sponsors SUPERFEET & RECOFIT COMPRESSION
4. although i wasnt racing as much i still was training 6-7 days a week & serving as an ambassador to all my sponsors & their products to MANY athletic and non athletic consumers
5. i stayed very active on my twitter account & acquired over 1200 followers

so as i reflect on this years season, all i can really do is get my game plan set for 2011 and look at what was successful this year and what disappointed me this year. as some of you may know, or not know, i work in the entertainment industry. i'm the owner of my own corperation. its a theatrical contractor company. we specialize in lighting, staging and rigging. when you go to concerts, you know all the lighting and sound equipment that hangs above the stage, a rigger is who hangs all that stuff so it doesnt fall. thats what i do is rigg and design/execute lighting shows of all types. i also moonlight as a club dj. so the thing that sucks bout working in the enterainment industry is, we mainly work weekends. shows are almost always on weekends or towards the end of the week. which is ALSO when races are. so when i'm working till 3am its hard to muster up the modivation to go race at 7am somewhere. so i hope many of you can understand that. since the ecomony took a crap, i've had to let go employees that worked for me to keep the business alive. which forced me this year to not only bid jobs in the field, but also to do the work itself as apposed to saying, good luck this weekend guys, i'll be in maui racing this weekend, see ya monday.

anyway, so now i hope you can understand where i'm coming from on why i didnt race as much this year as planned. so for 2011 what my plan is, is to block out 3 race weekends and take no work and make sure that weekend is completely free so i can make it to the race. and also so i'm not still deciding if i should race 3 days before the race. so thats my plan for 2011. i should have that schedule together with in the next month or so. until then, stay turned as i hope to get back into the habbit of blogging like i used too.

i started 3 weeks ago on my 3 months of base work i plan to do in preperation for the 2011 season. things seem to be going very well right now, minus the head cold i just caught. bummer. i am human though. i hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving and talk to you all soon.

stay warm!