Okay, so this is the beach outside my hotel - Las Tortugas where I do my two km swim every morning after running 6-10k along trhe packed sand beach, then I have coffee, fruit and tostadas outside under the palm trees. Arruived last Friday and am here for two weeks of winter tri training - "Pain doesn't last, chicks dig scars, glory is forever!" - Shane Falco.

“I never know what kind of training to do in January and February.” I heard this statement from one of the athletes I coach and I blew it off as an inconsequential statement with no relative meaning. And then as I commuted through my day, I thought, ‘By God, he needs to know.’