39 km/hr

My ITT on Saturday went well with an average speed of 39 km/hr. I was hoping to break 40. The ITT was 2 laps of birdshill or 22.6km total.

Vancouver or Bust

I'm in transition to Vancouver. I'll be stopping off in Calgary for a day on the way there.....expecting to arrive in Vancouver Thursday May 3rd.

For those interested in getting in touch with me, you can use my cell phone number. I'll be keeping that number until I get settled into Vancouver. My land line has been terminated.

Wish me luck.

TRIBALISTIC SEND OFF

Tribalistic threw me a surprise going away party after practice tonight.

It was very touching. I've made some really good friends over the last year training with them.

These guys are making it VERY hard to leave Winnipeg.

I realize I have to go through with the move now, but the friends I've made at Tribalistic are priceless.....and I'm going to miss them and the awesome training sessions like crazy.

They've got something really good going on in that club!

The plan for the next few months

So I'm in the process of boiling my life down to one car load. This is proving to be a bit of a challenge, but it is also a good excercise........amazing how things can just keep piling up. I expect I'll have more garbage bags than luggage.

Beth and Marc have opened their home to me upon my arrival in Vancouer. I depart Tuesday, May 1st, with a stop over in Calgary. I expect to get to Vancouver Thursday night.

It looks like I have a long road ride lined up on May 6th with one of Sony's cycling buddies. I hope to get into the loop quickly in Vancouver so I don't lose my thread. TRAINING IS GOING AWESOME.

I have registered for the following races:
June 8th - BG Vancouver World Cup - Olympic Distance
June 17th - New Balance Half Ironman, Elk Lake Victoria
July 8th - Dessert Half Ironman, Osoyoos
August 4th - Drummondville Triathlon, PQ - Olympic Distance

The races in June will be training races to get me ready for July and August.

This weekend, ie. the last weekend in Winnipeg, I will be doig a 22 km time trial on Saturday, and a 90 km road race on Sunday. The time trial is an individual race, with no drafting allowed. The road race on Sunday is a pack ride with strategic drafting and pushes. The pack riding freaks me out a bit.....45km/hr with dozens of riders only inches away.

The week after Pentiction Training Camp

The overly ambitious goal of 1000km ride, 100km run, and 10km swim fell a bit short, by about half. Despite that we were all tired at the end of each training day.

The biggest ride of the week was 160km of the 180km Ironman course. This was the highlight of the week for me as it really helped to put the race into perspective, and definatley gave me some good visualization tools. There nothing like knowing what your about to face. There are 2 big mountain passes on the course, Richter and Yellow Lake. They are a bit of a challange, especially Yellow Lake which is 145km into the ride. Ouch.

Most days started with a swim, roughly 2km, followed by either a long ride, or a combination ride run. On average we were training about 5 hours a day.

I hope I qualify in Victoria, but if I don't I'll be driving out to Penticton to watch and register for next year.