Not a long time ago I was sitting on the couch and Michelle came through the door. During the 3 weeks Michelle spent here in Islamorada, things really got started!

If you have followed my diary entries so far, you already know a lot of things Michelle and I were doing together here in Islamorada. But yes, it was all about fun. Swimming with the dolphins, fishing with Mangrove Mike, going out on the boat to snorkel or watch the sunset. But that’s only one side of our Race Club life; don’t think that all days had been relaxed like these. We also did a lot of serious work!

So let me take you through a “typical” workout day. All started at 9 a.m. at the pool with the morning water session. This first workout took about 1.5 hours. And after this, there were several ways to continue our day. Depending on what we planned to do in the afternoon, the morning session was followed by core work (abs and stuff like this and boxing) or we went straight ahead to the next step which was breakfast at Mangrove Mike’s (also very important!). Our “business as usual” breakfast was chocolate chip pancakes for Michelle and the country wrap with grits for me.

Everything we needed after a morning like this was a short nap or just to relax a bit at the Race Club house before our day continued. The afternoon could start with a 1 hour gym session around 3 p.m. at Froggy’s Gym, followed by another water workout, starting with some sprint work on the green. Without the gym session, we started our afternoon at 4 p.m. at the pool with whatever our daily program had foreseen to do after the morning session.

And after busy days like this there were only two things that you really needed and wanted to do. Enjoy a good dinner and afterwards, off to your bed to get ready for the next day.

Michelle has gone back to Australia and I miss these days with her. Thanks Michelle, and I hope we will meet again soon.

-Nicolas