PTS Client of the Month
December 2005 - Todd DesFosses
Our client of the month, Todd DesFosses, answers our Seven Super Questions! Congrats on a great year Todd...enjoy a winter of training for Boston! Todd is coached by Patrick McCrann
- Town, State: Mahwah, NJ
- Training Focus: Training focus was run dominated this year. Aim was to run a 3:20 marathon and get to Boston. Since I'd be cross training anyway, upping my attempted distances for Triathlon seemed like a good idea at the time...so ramping up training volume for a first time Olympic, and half-iron, distance got added to the focus list.
- Your "A Race" for 2005: Timberman Half in August. Philadelphia Marathon in November.
- #1 goal: Two goals, really (why just settle for one?): : finishing Timberman well, as opposed to just surviving. Getting that 3:20 in Philly.
- Athletic Accomplishment You Are Most Proud Of: there are a few standouts.
(A)
Feeling like I was RACING, not just running, the hardest 5K of my life at the end of the Philly Marathon, and against the official pace setter. Executing my (well, Patrick's, really) pace strategy for the entire length to within a ridiculously thin margin. Pushing through whatever it was that I pushed through that day, and winning.
(B)
Swimming 32 minutes at Timberman despite learning the week of the race that the late season ski injury I'd been training through, and still suffering, was actually a fracture of the humeral head, plus a rotator cuff tear. So much for my self diagnosis of tendonitis! I really did not intend to compete for the "Dumbest PTS Athlete of the Year" award.
(C) At the risk of being sappy, the birth of our daughter this summer. What my wife and daughter did that day was THE athletic display of my year. Philly & Timber were a breeze.
- Favorite Snack/Food: too many to be able to decide. Thematically I can say anything Italian at home, French out. And good wine. I train (and live) to eat. Conversely, "eating to live" kills me...gels, bars, and fuel drinks are all just necessary evil.
- I'd rather be: ...better able to live in the moment (the Zen thing, a lifetime of effort, etc.). Or, able to sleep when and for as long as I please without feeling as if missing a chance to do something, or without thinking about what the famous thoroughbred horse trainer Charlie Whittingham said ("there's plenty of time to sleep when we're dead!").