Chris_McCormack

Summer in Australia

I have not been home to Australia in 2 years and time honestly softens your memory for how wonderful things can be. Sydney during summer is just incredible. Actually Sydney has a great climate all year, but summer in Sydney is just awesome. I forgot how great it really is. This year has been extra special as my girls are quickly growing up and being able to enjoy all the beach activities and boating time with them now they are a little older has been unreal.

Training is easy at this time of year in Australia and I have been steadily building up some solid fitness. This year my focus is only on Hawaii Ironman success. I cannot wait to get back to Kona and my spirits and feeling for the season are perfect. We have planned my year and my season and flights have been booked all the way up until the October 10 date of the event this year. I am stinging to kick off the year. I will start my first race of the season in Singapore with the 70.3 event, and then move onto do the Lavaman race in Hawaii before New Orleans 70.3 on April 5 and then China 70.3 on April 18.

Planning this year has been very specific as my daughter Tahlia starts school and will be staying at home in Australia. I will be commuting a little more and for this reason we had to ensure that our travel time was kept at a minimum. My entire approach to my racing and my career has always been about "Making it Happen." and my planning and training has been executed with this mindset again. We have some great things in the pipeline for many of the amatuers this season so stay tuned for that. I apoligise to all those people who have been emailing through my site recently. We are making some changes behind the scene that will come out in mid April and this held things back a little. I thankyou for your effort and patience and want you to know that I appreciate your feedback and emails. For all those people chasing training advice and knowledge I promise to get back to you all as soon as I can. We will make this a much sleeker process with the changes to the site and the addition of some of my coaching staff to the Q and A for many of you.

I have included a few pictures here of our summer holidays. Tahlia starts school here next week, and I am excited about her first day at school. We are back in our home which is great and are currently getting some renovations done on our place which is wonderful. It is great to be back in Australia and I absolutely love this time of year. I do miss my friends in the USA and I miss the LA training scene but will be back again in March to see you all.

Safe Training everyone.

Macca

The New Year 2009 - Lets Get started

Well I have had a few weeks since my last entry, simply because I have just arrived back in Australia for the first time in 2 years and it is just wonderful to be home. It is a great time of year in Australia as summer is upon us and with Christmas and New Years the festivities are awesome. I have been catching up with friends and really enjoying my last few weeks at home. 

New Years day for me always stands as my first day of training after an extended holiday break. It is now time to start getting more structure to my training and looking down and preparing for the season ahead. I have settled back into southern Sydney and will remain here until mid March before returning to the USA. The training is easy in Sydney at this time of year as the weather is perfect and big bike groups, swim groups and running groups are always easy to link up with. I have just started back swimming which has been tough after an extended break, but my bike and run fitness are much better. It is great to hook up with all my old mates and get back over some familiar bike and run routes.

I flew back to Sydney from New York in late December which was an enormous flight. New York was freezing and got its first heavy snow dump when I was in town. It is such a cool city and I was on location as part of the Under Armour shoe launch. The entire new Under Armour add campaign, "Athletes Run" was launched to a huge media Audience just off 5th Avenue in New York. It was really cool, and hanging out with some of the biggest names in US sport and US sports media was cool. UA are such a positive company I always walk away from this group pumped and physiqued about the future. This launch is going to be huge and the product is just spectacular. It was a real buzz.

Arriving home to such hot weather was unreal and then spending the past few weeks surfing and water skiing with friends has been just perfect. We had a beautiful Christmas at home with the kids and our New Years was spent on the beach with the kids watching the firework's over the city. It was unreal.

Anyway I thought with the New Year starts the new training but also I will post bi weekly on my site. I like to return to routines and this is the beginning. I apoligise for know pictures with this post but will upload a couple of pictures tomorrow.

Safe training and happy New Year,

Macca