It's being almost 6 weeks of perfect training here in warm and sunny Costa Rica. As usual the hard part of training here is that the terrain is always going up and down, and there are not many flat roads unless you drive about 60 minutes, that is exactly what a small group of us did this past weekend, we drove to a little town called Bajo Rodriguez, from there we did a pretty cool loop of mostly flat road riding, my Carmichael Training Systems coach Adam Pulford told me to take my Specialized Tarmac to ride at about 33-38KMH on the flat roads. After a good warm up I got right to work and kept a solid 35KMH average for about 100kms. The views were awesome along the ride and on part of the route we came across some big Pineapple fields that brought many memories. Each time I looked at them I rode even faster knowing that there is nothing harder than working in those fields and how easy I have it now days.

Sometime ago I had heard that medical treatment in Costa Rica was a lot cheaper than in the US, and that many Americans come to the country to get work done with the same quality, but at a significantly lower price. Well now I have to agree 100% with that, I just had my wisdom teeth pulled out, a deep cleaning, 9 fillings and braces all for less than $800. I heard that most Americans come here, get the work done, take a 2 week vacation, and still go back to the US spending less money than they would have in the states.

Well now all I have to do is endure the pain for another day, and resume training tomorrow were I will enjoy another kind of pain: Vo2 Max Intervals!

I will let you know how those go on next week update.

Till the next time.

MP