Season coming to an end.......

I started this year weighing in at heavy yet not so heavy 185lb. I told myself that if i wanted to get better i would have to eat and train smarter, and i have!I am down to 170lbs and i feel better than ever, ive been running faster than i have ever done in my life! i was never a runner in high school and just picked up competitive running about 2 months ago and ive been loving it ever since. I broke my 5k time by 3min and hopfully shattering my old 10k pr of 42min in the next coming weeks. ive been seeing results from my running and better yet my cycling. the more i run, the more i can higher speeds on the bike this is the best feeling ever!

I recently participated in a local triathlon at South Padre Island where I placed 3rd overall with over 300 participants. This was such an accomplishment for me because 2yrs ago cause i couldn't even run a mile!

Head down, push through the pain.

3rd and 7th overall

19:01 5k 46:10 18mi bike 19:15 5k

Billy 2nd Surge 3rd Overall

Family

Helping a friend(s) finish out training strong!!!

Today I started my day at 4:00a.m.To ride with 3 awesome athletes Tom, Eric, and surge. I Got ready, put my bike in the back of my truck and headed to Donna to start our 100mi journey. It was gonna be a good day until about three blocks away from Erica house I was stopped by cop going 42 on a 30. It was 4:40am in the morning! Their was nobody on the dayum road. He didn't ask questions he just gave me a ticket. I guess Donna had to make their quota for the month. But I wasn't going to make this get the best of me and ruin my day. Once I got to Erics house we suited up and were good to go. We started 7min late and we were counting on surge getting mad at us....which he did. But he didn't have front lights so he pretty much "needed" us. We made our journey through military highway and Eric did the pulling for the first 11mi. I didn't want to sit I'm the back this ride i wanted to pull. I pulled for at least 45-50min against the wind at a consistent pace of 20-21mph which I was proud of myself. Once we hit 40mi I started having stomach cramps which was really getting the best of me. I was feeling really weak and I couldn't push any more. I thought I was bonking and mal nourished but its just that I needed to go restroom lol. Tom surge and Eric were kind enough to stop a couple of times for me even though they complained a little. On the way back we had a slight tail wind and booked it going a consistent 22-24mph the whole way back. When we were 6mi away from our starting point Tom went up to the front to pull and was beast!!! He took off and was doing 28+ and put a hurting on everybody! I got dropped that last 4mi in but nonetheless had a great time.

Through long training rides you need great friends like Eric Tom and surge cause they push you to become better athletes. Another long ride in the books now to rest up before another long ride tomorrow......

Du Or Die Dualathon!!!

1st place Age Group 20-29

 

This past Saturday me and my training partner Eric did the 2nd Annual Bike Masters Du or Die Dualathon and made the podium once again. It was a great event and very fun race. 

3rd Place Individual & 5th Place Overall

recovering from a week long cold.

After my last blog of the Team McAllen ITT, I have been sick with alot of cough and congestion and recovered just in time for the weekend. Saturday morning was my first ride in 6days and I was feeling it. I had felt sluggish, weak and unmotivated to do anything. Saturday was a really painful ride for me because I hadn't worked out my muscles and it was a seriously painful 60mi.
 

I dont like the douche on the cervelo right now

Sunday morning ride i had to redeem myself for not riding for a couple of days so i decided to go ride with Eric and Surge at the meeting grounds of the Elites of Team McAllen. it was a cold morning and these riders were ready to do a high paced training ride or should i say race. Riding with the elites on sunday is seriously a rush because our speed is about 26mph+ and everybody is into what they are doing. There is no room for clowning around with a bunch of experienced riders like these. 

Getting Stronger

Wally's Crew

My Beautiful Cervelo P3

Yesterday I completed the Team McAllen individual Time Trial. 10miles of pure power and absolute pain. I finished this time trial in a really good time of 25:38. I came in 2nd Place overall which was a major accomplishment for me. i am becoming a stronger rider and it seems everybody is noticing. The winning time was a 25:08 which is 30sec faster than my time so i have alot of room for improvement. Sugre came in 3rd with a time of 26:10 :b. and Eric cam in with a time of 26:58. Not a bad day for the three training buddies.  I am not going to stop doing what i love, which is cycling and living a healthy fast paced life style. My goal for the new year is to be the strongest cyclist/ Triathlete my body will let me be.

This is my brother, my competition my Best friend

Eric is the older brother ive never had.

Ready to roll

Aero position.

Edinburg 10k

This past Saturday I ran the All American City Edinburg 10k. It was a frigid morning and I was freezing my socks off!! I was really nervous about how I was going to do because I hadn't ran in about 3-4 weeks and i was excited to know where I would stand in my running game. When the the race started i had a good 6:25 pace for the first two miles then at then then BOOM, it felt like I hit a wall. I had a massive pain underneath my rib cage, it felt like someone was inflating a balloon in my chest. So my 6:25 pace dropped to a pretty bad 8:30 pace. i was literally in pain, i seriously wanted to walk the rest of the race. But i told myself i couldn't. If i would have walked my friends " Eric the Beast Jimenez and Surge the Urge Garza" who went out there to support me would have ripped me new one! So i gathered what ever strength I got left and i pushed my self back to a 6:45-7:15 pace and kept it there for the whole race. I was glad that I finished with a PR of 44:01. I really surprised myself because I did a personal best without training and realized that i could have dropped another 2min by not getting cramped up at mile 2. So this race really showed the potential I have in running.

PR 44:01

Sporting my Wally's Jersey and Newtons

If you don't give it your all, you'll never know your limits.

Today was a beautiful day in South Texas. the weather today was in the high 40's after 3pm. This was our opportunity to take advantage of the only sunlight till Sunday afternoon. There was only four brave souls on today's chilly ride. Surge, Eric, Juan "Juanito", and myself. We  had to help Juan prepare for his huge race in Castroville so i wasn't going to let him take to much of an easy day. I know that i have slacked off for the past couple of months but, these past two weeks i have been making an effort of riding and running everyday putting is some for of exercise for at least 45min a day doing so i feel so much stronger and i am able to push myself to the brink of 195pbm. On today's fast ride every time i was up in front leading the pack i wanted to at least try to make them hurt. I say try because everybody in that group are wayyyyy better than me and i just want to be half the riders they are. They all have their titles. Surge is the Speed demon, and Eric is our Clysdale beast, and Juan........who knows what he is but he is a very seasoned athlete. I would try my absolute  best to pull as fast and as strong as i could. I feel so much stronger pulling I was able to hit 29mph going northboud for over 20sec i was stoked! what made my self confidence go up more was that Juan said that I have gotten stronger. when we were almost back to our vehicles i tried a last ditch effort to break my max mph for the day. I straddled the saddle and just gave it my all. I kept looking at my speedometer as it read 27.....29.......33.....35....and then 36. That was the fastest i ever hit on a valley flat : ). Overall today was an amazing ride!

Surge and Juan

Surge, Eric and Eric drafting his ass off!

Loving the cold weather but,.......

This doesn't seem to promising.....

Train train train........yeah i dont think so, we have a severe freeze that wont let us ride our speed demons till sunday. it is to cold to even think about hoping in the saddle. as of right now i have my Castelli leg warmers and im not even riding, im just in regular street clothing and im still freezing. I even have two base layers, a long sleeve shirt and my North Face Jacket. the funny part is im also wearing my pearlizumi cycling soft shell golves to protect me from these frigid weather. In order to keep our legs strong we will have a cycling trainer party with my cylops fluid pro trainer in the near future. I cant imagine how people up north stay in strong racing condition with freezing weather like this! i wouldnt be able to stand the wind chill of 7 degrees!

Get used to Sally

Sally= My awesome Cervelo P3 !

you guys are probably thinking who is sally? Well Sally is my Time Trial/ Triathlon bike which i acquired in the 2010 from Wally's Bicycles. She is one beautiful piece of work, sleek, fast and really light! I havent had the time to ride this bike as much due to you cant really do hard training on a tt bike as per its mainly used for long distances and for time trials. I am going to start riding my Cervelo P3 more often due to I'm doing the Galveston Half ironman and getting used to aero postition for 56 miles is a pretty hard thing to do.
This mornings ride was pretty hard and intense, we worked on time trial intervals which we maintained a pace of 24-25mph against the wind for a consistent 3 minutes. But i kept chugging a lot right next to the speed demon Surge. I stayed with him throughout the whole ride. So i know I'm improving all around now. I feel this soreness in my legs but i know its cause im getting stronger day by day. we have an individual time trial on sunday which we are going to race against the clock to see where we stand for this racing season this tt while this will test all of the training we have been doing for months. so when sunday comes you gotta leave it all on the asphalt.

Bike for sale!!!!

09' Specialized Tarmac comp for sale!!

Edinburg 10k Feb.5th 2011

watch out for 373 i'll be wearing black :b

I have registered for the 29th annual Edinburg All American city 10k.  I personally haven't done this race for over 6yrs and I am going to leave it all on the asphalt. my goal for this years 10k is to push myself to break a sub 45 time. its very possible but I am hoping to have full recovery for this saturdays race.

Happiness comes from Cycling

Push yourself to your limits and if you cant you have friends that will......

I haven't done this for a while so here it goes. I have been slacking off of my training for quite a while now and drifting away from the things i love to do because i got sidetracked with things that could have been but didn't. I have been told by so many people  that I have the ability and talent to be a great athlete and to stop messing around and get back on the ball. I could honestly say that without these people's help, motivation and guidance i wouldn't be where i am right now physically and mentally. I had biking pretty consitantly working my ass off to gain everything that i had lost for being dumb and naive. I have been riding pretty much everyday and now i'm excited to wake up at 5am to do our morning interval rides. Eric and surge have been the ones to push me to my limits physically and to the point where i personally want to push them off their bike and make them fall into a ditch but i still love them  no-homo.

I'm that douches apprentice 

 

 

 

My personal goals of 2011 is just stick to school and my training. I want to be the best cyclist/ tri athlete that i can push myself to. push myself to where ive never been. I want to be a better person as well and the only way to do that is if i just train my heart out and pretend that nothing else matters.

Until next ride.....