Training Update - It's been awhile

I haven't updated my training since 70.3 World Champs, many a painful training hour has gone by since then.
The biggest change is that I joined Riptide Multisports professional triathlon group. They're coached by Sean Wendt and right now I'm currently training with Matt Balzer, Pete Mallett, Tate Behning, Josh Merrick, and Cyrus Severance. 4 of 5 of those guys are pro triathletes so keeping up daily is certainly a task to be reckoned with. I had a great experience with Steve Pye, Andrea Watkins and the Practical Coaching group last year but the opportunity to train daily with a group was something I couldn't pass up. If I'm going to improve at tris I need to train with people who can beat be on any given interval.
I started with the group in December and hit the water hard. If you go through my old training logs you'll see I swam 10k yards a week max. With Riptide I got above 25k some weeks in December and then settled into around 20k in Jan and Feb. It was tough getting comfortable with that load and I felt horrible running and biking for awhile, partly since I wasn't doing those disciplines very much. Starting around the end of Feb I started running and getting on the trainer more and after a few weeks of that I really started feeling good again.
After 70.3 Worlds in my short post race celebration (I hit the booze with way too much intensity and was KO'ed and in bed by 10) I remember talking to Jeff Cuddeback and he told me I needed to swim til I couldn't and that the running would always be there when I got back into it again. He was right, after just a few longer runs and workouts I felt completely back to my normal running form. Same with the bike, last week I rode Lookout Mtn with the guys and hit a whopping (for me at least) 19:33 for the climb, 1:20 off my best for the beast. It helped to have Josh ahead of me and Pete by my side but it was still a big improvement.
All the while my swimming has been improving exponentially. I swam 21:12 for 1650 and 5:57 in the pool in January at the Riptide Invite swim meet. Since then I've gotten down to a 1:04 avg for my team goal 100y sets and 1:59 for a broken 200y (200y with 15 second breaks at each 50y). Hopefully with all that and more improvement I'll actually be able to get out of the water with people this summer. I got smoked out of the water last year.
This Sunday I'm going to run the Running of the Green 7k in downtown Denver. It'll be a good fitness check.