Shortly after I finished the Shawigan Lake triathlon, I wrote about my experiences, frustrations and thoughts regarding my continuing adventures in the world of triathlon. For a refresher, go here. Go ahead, really…I’ll wait. It’s important. You’ll need this as reference for what I’m about to say…
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OK, so I’m done my massive project for work. Only lost one day of training…thank God today was a rest day. Tomorrow’s a test tri at the West Van Aquatic Centre - 20 minutes in the pool, 40 minutes on the trainer, 20 minutes on the treadmill. Then I go right into taper Sunday morning. [...]
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Tonight’s open water swim with Peter and Jen was unfortunately called off by me at 9am this morning when a $2 million job hit my desk along with a due date of tomorrow afternoon.
Yep, it’s 7:25pm and I’ve been at my desk for 12 hours straight. I’ll probably be here for at least another two [...]
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I’ve been looking forward to this week since Shawnigan Lake, in a weird sort of way. This is my final week of training before I taper for Locarno, and it’s marked as ‘heavy’ on my training calendar…my first experience of ‘heavy’ Tier 2 training since I started the program. It’s pretty much a benchmark swim, [...]
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Canada turned 141 years old yesterday. I celebrated it by spending a hour in the gym in West Van, then 35 minutes in the pool on a Zone 2 tempo swim, then two+ hours in traffic trying to get home cause some moron decided she wanted to throw herself off of the Ironworkers’ Memorial Bridge….no, [...]
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