Conor Murphy Camp Update

Conor Murphy is putting in the hard yards in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014. With an individual race and team relay race this is a major target for the TI squad athletes who are qualified to race.

Blog post thanks to Conor Murphy / Frog Island Sports. Follow Conor's progress at www.trimurphy.com or @tri_murphy

Irish Camp December 2013

I returned to Aguilas, Spain for the 5th time this December for the Triathlon Ireland pre season training camp.
Coming into this camp I haven't had a big block of training as I had a late 2013 season. There are 12 triathletes
here and 2 pro cyclists from the An Post team to keep group bike rides at an honest pace. It's been full gas
training since we got here, standard 3 sessions a day.

This 2 week camp is a Commonwealth Games preparation camp. We are all trying to be in serious shape for
the races on the 24th and 26th July 2014 in Glasgow. We are now a week into the camp and there are a few tired
and broken bodies around, this certainly is a hard sport.

I've been holding up rightly and today I've had the hardest day so far for sure. A swim test set this
morning, (race simulation) and a measured run session on the track to deduce my run thresholds and max pace.

The camp has been littered with lots of good laughs and everything outside training hard is very relaxed.
We've been swimming in the sea, perfect wetsuit temperature. Check out this silly vine my mate posted... Not sure
I'll live this down, good looking Zone 3 wetsuit though.
https://vine.co/v/h2j9q31a36j

I've got a week at home in Ireland after this camp then the Leicestershire XC Champs on the 4th Jan. I'm not
doing any of threshold running at the minute so I won't be and shouldn't be in any sort of shape for the race, it'll
be a training run. I'm looking to come into racing form by late March when I race in Aus/NZ so it's fairly
important I'm not "flying" in January, it's going to be a long season this year so I need to get my peak's in
performance timed perfectly.