Yesterday evening I was challenged by KC , who is a kick ass training first time IRONMAN athlete(who will kick butt) to complete my blog that tells 10 random things about me. I have seen many of these and have never spent the time to do this, so here goes! I think it is a great thing to do, I might even learn something about myself as I write these out. Here I go in no random order and put down as they come to my head!
1. I idolize my wife. She is the greatest most patient girl that I know. She stands by my side and watch me chase my dreams with a support that is unbelievable. I would walk on glass if she asked me to because in my world she could never be found again!
2. I truly believe that nothing is impossible! As you may have seen in my posts I believe in LIVING FOR MY DREAMS. If you believe in something and you are honest with yourself it is truly achievable! If you want to be a Millionaire you can do it, if you want to be the president of a company you can do it, if you want to do an IRONMAN go do it. The only person stopping you is you!
3. I live by the rule 'what comes around goes around'. I actually believe in this thought to an extreme. If I stub my toe it is because I did something that hurt another individual. I try and live my life accordingly as it hopefully means that good things will happen to me.
4. I am goal driven person! If I do not set a goal to accomplish something I tend to float around and move towards whatever it is I am trying to do. If I do set a goal, i am not deterred until i accomplish it.
5. A realization that I have come to in the past few years is my passion for helping others accomplish goals. That can be via a sport related goal, a charitable organization, helping the neighbor, if it means that they achieve something then it pleases me.
6. I live by extreme, considered by some of my friends as being obsessed. Whenever i decide to do something I tend to want to do it as well as can be imagined and then add another few percent. I dont do things to be OK at them, I want to be good!
7. I believe in having the proper equipment to complete a task. If you are going running buy running shoes not tennis shoes, if you are going powder skiing use powder skis, if you live in Canada buy a winter jacket. I get frustrated when 'experienced' or 'logical' people say they cant do something only to discover that they are using the wrong equipment.(by the way I also love shopping)
8. I am a realist. I tend to set goals that challenge me, but not to an unrealizable degree. I also am proud in an ability to help friends discover the reality of situations in order to make them able to achieve what it is they are looking to achieve.
9. I am passionate and driven. I do not choose to do things that I do not have a passion for, to me this is waste of time!
10. I don't start a new task after 9PM. I am a person who is most productive early in the day so that is when I start my tasks! I believe that 9PM is a time to unwind so that you can have some quality sleep.
11. OOPS, I am only supposed to list 10! I LOVE MY LIFE! had to add that one!
Thanks KC for getting me to do this! A fun and enlightening experience. To all my blog readers, please try this out and send me a message letting me know would love to read!
Have a great weekend!
Cheers!
The new Adventure has Started!!!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Arent Thursday's the top!
I had another great Thursday! Imagine! The photos above are only a part of what makes the day a full and awesome one. Like every other Thursday it is a routine kind of day!
A short run at 5AM to wake up, followed my an improving yoga practice. As some know mornings are not my specialty, not that I am in a bad mood or anything, I just seem to have some mental block to accepting early mornings. It is crazy as I get up before 7am from November to April 7 days a week, so by now you figure I would be over whatever it is that urks me! NO! Except for Thursday. I dont know if it is the variety of workouts or number of workouts that I enjoy. As time is getting closer, I hope I learn that it is the frequency that I like. It would make the 2 workout a day for 6 months a fun time.
ONe of todays highlights was my swim once again. As planned I increased my distance and intensity again. The gradual build will hopefully be a good strategy over the next dew weeks. Todays total distance was 3000m with about 50% of it as drills. For one of the first times, I started to feel some upper body burn from the swim. As I have been working on form I find I am using a lot more upper body muscles to pull myslef forward. My last workout had a lot of paddle work. As I was on the last set of a 5 x 300m today I could feel my upper body getting tired. It was a great feeling!
Tonight was exciting! THis weekend is supposed to be awesome weather so I spent some time getting a road bike ready to go. This Saturday I will spend the first half of the day skiing and then get out on a road ride! Wahoo! Spring is in the air!
Hope you had a great day! Dont ever forget, Live for your Dreams! It makes the world a better place!
Cheers
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
It's hump day people!
Yep, half way through another week, more miles on the shoes, more bubbles in the pool and more experience to reflect upon as the quest continues. Today was a rest day as I head into Super Thursday, 445AM run, yoga, swim, run, run! I love it!
Altlhough it was a rest day, that work thing kept me flying like a crazy man. I felt like I was watching an Olympic Hockey game, on the edge of my seat pushing to get every little bit in order to win. It was another great day running to close some new business. I must say that days like today make me realize how much I strive on stress. The more I have on my plate the more motivated I become and the better I seem to get at it. I guess I ned to start training harder and hope that the strategy pays off. In either case, I will make some money at the office and get some great workouts under my belt!
Today was also a great day of progress with my run clinic world. A few more inquiries came in, each day a couple more is a good indication that people want to participate. I have spent quite a bit of time preparing so I am anxious to get out there and help people towards the start line. It is a great feeling to know that I am going to be able to share with others my experiences, my knowledge and my enthusiasm. Best of all, being at the start line with them in 9 weeks, seeing some of them accomplish the first run race result of the their lives! My winter sport enthusiasm is finding its way into my summer world! Hold on Sally, the ride has just started!
I learned recently of the best compliment that anyone could ever look for. As most may know I am enthusiastic about helping others get to a goal. I have a client who I have been teaching skiing. I learned that very recently he was going to stop his membership at our club when his kids were off to school. He felt that he was not progressing in his skiing and that without the growth and progress he could focus on other areas. He recently went out on a requested private lesson with me to see if he could gain some new insight. It seems to have spurred a change in his thought process. A friend shared with me that as a result of the winter of lessons and the private lesson that we went out one he has found a renewed enthusiasm for the sport and is no longer considering ending his membership. This for me is the greatest compliment in the world. I am very proud of my ski ability and would teach for free it it paid my mortgage. To receive this kind of feedback makes every bit of my enthusiasm grow even stronger!
I hope that I might have that same influence on others in the upcoming clinic, and that I drink some of my own kool aid when I am 10 weeks into training and feeling like a sack of hammers!
Thank you to all of you as well. This goofy little blog world has been successful at a couple of things for me. It has motivated me a ton hearing your training stories and awesome race reports! It has also given me a world of accountability. Hearing teh pain and work you do makes me want to share my goals, and if I tell you guys, guess what, I need to poney up and get it done! This journey has been a blast so far and it is only getting better!
Time for my run and yoga sleep! Hope your day has been awesome! Happy hump day and Cheers to you!
Altlhough it was a rest day, that work thing kept me flying like a crazy man. I felt like I was watching an Olympic Hockey game, on the edge of my seat pushing to get every little bit in order to win. It was another great day running to close some new business. I must say that days like today make me realize how much I strive on stress. The more I have on my plate the more motivated I become and the better I seem to get at it. I guess I ned to start training harder and hope that the strategy pays off. In either case, I will make some money at the office and get some great workouts under my belt!
Today was also a great day of progress with my run clinic world. A few more inquiries came in, each day a couple more is a good indication that people want to participate. I have spent quite a bit of time preparing so I am anxious to get out there and help people towards the start line. It is a great feeling to know that I am going to be able to share with others my experiences, my knowledge and my enthusiasm. Best of all, being at the start line with them in 9 weeks, seeing some of them accomplish the first run race result of the their lives! My winter sport enthusiasm is finding its way into my summer world! Hold on Sally, the ride has just started!
I learned recently of the best compliment that anyone could ever look for. As most may know I am enthusiastic about helping others get to a goal. I have a client who I have been teaching skiing. I learned that very recently he was going to stop his membership at our club when his kids were off to school. He felt that he was not progressing in his skiing and that without the growth and progress he could focus on other areas. He recently went out on a requested private lesson with me to see if he could gain some new insight. It seems to have spurred a change in his thought process. A friend shared with me that as a result of the winter of lessons and the private lesson that we went out one he has found a renewed enthusiasm for the sport and is no longer considering ending his membership. This for me is the greatest compliment in the world. I am very proud of my ski ability and would teach for free it it paid my mortgage. To receive this kind of feedback makes every bit of my enthusiasm grow even stronger!
I hope that I might have that same influence on others in the upcoming clinic, and that I drink some of my own kool aid when I am 10 weeks into training and feeling like a sack of hammers!
Thank you to all of you as well. This goofy little blog world has been successful at a couple of things for me. It has motivated me a ton hearing your training stories and awesome race reports! It has also given me a world of accountability. Hearing teh pain and work you do makes me want to share my goals, and if I tell you guys, guess what, I need to poney up and get it done! This journey has been a blast so far and it is only getting better!
Time for my run and yoga sleep! Hope your day has been awesome! Happy hump day and Cheers to you!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Swim.......Run
Yep, I did a tri.....tlon today! Yeah, a tri.....thlon! I had an awesome swim and a messed up excuse to be called a brick. Followed it by a good run!
Today was a bit of a prefect storm. Work was really busy with a ton of new business coming in and a lot of new opportunities to feed my habits. It seemed that now that the Olympics are over everyone has some time to pay attention to business again. Good for me! I got 4 more opportunities today, after that I stopped answering the phone(kidding). It should feed the machine for hte next while. I don't talk much about work as this blog is not about that. But at work I am as enthusiastic and intense as training. I dont like to lose, so a lead to me is a sale. Whenever I get a new possibility I pride myself on being able to get to the bottom of the opportunity and ultimately disappointing my competitors by winning the business.
All that being said, today was a great day, a lot of new business coming in and more funds to feed the tri monster!
What about training??? Today's swim as you might imagine was awesome. I had a 2400m practice with a combination of distance as well as drills. Lately I have used a strategy of building some practices that are cumatively exhausting. Start easy, build up a little, add a little more umphhhh and then make it a crazy dig deep adventure. The way I see it I might as well get used to being in adverse environment. training is likely going to be a bitch and race day cant be any easier.
As well as a good day with training and work, chasing the dream was a great adventure as well. My goal of having a successful coaching group continues to move forward. I had several ore inquiries today for my upcoming clinic. Once again I beleive that it is going to be a great success. I am so excited to share my passion and help others get to the start line. If any of you have any words of wisdom from your experiences please share them. As athletes you have enjoyed all kinds of experiences, please share them with me and allow me to share them with others. After all, someone inspired you to become an obsessed tri fool, you owe it to others to do the same. In a short while I will share my website and share the success of others with you !
Cheers and happy Tuesday! It sucks that hte Olympics are done!
Today was a bit of a prefect storm. Work was really busy with a ton of new business coming in and a lot of new opportunities to feed my habits. It seemed that now that the Olympics are over everyone has some time to pay attention to business again. Good for me! I got 4 more opportunities today, after that I stopped answering the phone(kidding). It should feed the machine for hte next while. I don't talk much about work as this blog is not about that. But at work I am as enthusiastic and intense as training. I dont like to lose, so a lead to me is a sale. Whenever I get a new possibility I pride myself on being able to get to the bottom of the opportunity and ultimately disappointing my competitors by winning the business.
All that being said, today was a great day, a lot of new business coming in and more funds to feed the tri monster!
What about training??? Today's swim as you might imagine was awesome. I had a 2400m practice with a combination of distance as well as drills. Lately I have used a strategy of building some practices that are cumatively exhausting. Start easy, build up a little, add a little more umphhhh and then make it a crazy dig deep adventure. The way I see it I might as well get used to being in adverse environment. training is likely going to be a bitch and race day cant be any easier.
Cheers and happy Tuesday! It sucks that hte Olympics are done!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Go time gets closer yet!
Another couple of weeks of slacking off and then it is the real deal! No more calling my weekends cross training time, doing short runs or no pushing 100% all the time.
I am looking forward to the training experience for a few reasons! First, I suppose as a Type A, I want to see what I have inside myself and how far I can push that limit. Kind of a bizarre thing to want to go that hard, but that is how I am wired.
The second part is following a structure to get to what is still an unknown result to come. Following a very well outlined strategy with a lot of tough workouts should prove for some good results. Following this will be a huge baseline experiment, as this is IM #1 I dont know what I am capable of, so the next few months will tell me each day what I can do and ideally lead to a great day in September.
Another great part of this goal is the realization of a dream. Until only a few months ago the thought of IRONMAN was a bucket list thing. Well, here goes, a chance to tick that one of the list. I have the outmost of respect for the people who have completed an IM and I now have the chance to become one of them.
In the process of all this happening has been another goal established. I am hosting my first run clinic starting next week and it appears that it is being received quite well at this point. It is very exciting to be able to share with people a passion and to get them to the start line with me. The race in May will not only be a good marathon training run for me, it will be a first, leading many people to the start line from the first time. The attached photo is my(and doggie Karma) intro on the PYC website, my 15 seconds of fame!
Today was my first 10 mile run, it was a very deliberate slow run trying to keep my heart rate scary low. I have to say it is really hard to run slow to do that, but it is a required way to go right now to get the base I need to establish. So my 10 miles was done at a 9 min pace keeping my heart rate under 150, it felt very easy to accomplish. Easy from an exertion perspective, but it killed not to speed up. I suppose that will come soon enough! My goal this week is to run all 5 days building up some mileage, then next week I will 'coast' as I swim a little more. The last time I did that small experiment my running improved a great deal, so I figure I can try it again and see what results it provides!
Now that hte Olympics are over, I am going to catch up on my sleep. I hope you all had a great day! See YA!
I am looking forward to the training experience for a few reasons! First, I suppose as a Type A, I want to see what I have inside myself and how far I can push that limit. Kind of a bizarre thing to want to go that hard, but that is how I am wired.
The second part is following a structure to get to what is still an unknown result to come. Following a very well outlined strategy with a lot of tough workouts should prove for some good results. Following this will be a huge baseline experiment, as this is IM #1 I dont know what I am capable of, so the next few months will tell me each day what I can do and ideally lead to a great day in September.
Another great part of this goal is the realization of a dream. Until only a few months ago the thought of IRONMAN was a bucket list thing. Well, here goes, a chance to tick that one of the list. I have the outmost of respect for the people who have completed an IM and I now have the chance to become one of them.
Today was my first 10 mile run, it was a very deliberate slow run trying to keep my heart rate scary low. I have to say it is really hard to run slow to do that, but it is a required way to go right now to get the base I need to establish. So my 10 miles was done at a 9 min pace keeping my heart rate under 150, it felt very easy to accomplish. Easy from an exertion perspective, but it killed not to speed up. I suppose that will come soon enough! My goal this week is to run all 5 days building up some mileage, then next week I will 'coast' as I swim a little more. The last time I did that small experiment my running improved a great deal, so I figure I can try it again and see what results it provides!
Now that hte Olympics are over, I am going to catch up on my sleep. I hope you all had a great day! See YA!
Canadian Man's Weekend Part Deux!
After an unbelievable day of skiing, the first of the weekends nail biting hockey games was played! WOW! It seems that Canada's hockey players made a deal with the media to make certain that hte games were the most nerve wrecking experience ever enjoyed. I could not believe when I was beckoned back to the room after I had left because I thought the game was over! Another 5 seconds and the outcome may have been totally different! BUT, it was not, it was great to be over that game and sitting back to wait for the final game on Sunday!
Saturday morning once again proved to be another epic ski day! The snow was once again top of boot deep and light and fluffy. A dream ski day again! The catch on this one was that I had a group that I was coaching that morning. My ski clients pay a lot of money and have a high expectation in the sessions that they attend, they expect to ski away each week with some new tools to improve their sking. Saturday turned out to be a dream day for me. As we gathered at the bottom of the hill to head into our session, one of the ladies in the group apologized. I wondered what it was she was going to say, she said they wanted to ski and not listen to my teach. WOW! A dream come true, we headed up as a group and skied for the entire 2 hour session! thank you to my group for their desire to ski powder, it turn out to be a bit of a ski bonanza for me! The day finished great as well. It was a full moon and a few friends headed out to the country for a moonlight snowshoe and some dinner! After a great ski day it was the icing on the cake, finish the day with a good walk through the forest with tons of snow!
Sunday was another great day on snow. With so much fresh snow over a couple of days the conditions proved to be excellent throughout the resort. My group on Sunday had a similar idea to Saturday's group. Lets go ski! SO for 2 hours we flew up and down enjoying the rest of our dream ski weekend.
As many of you know the weekend finished with the suspense of the Canada/US gold medal Olympic hockey game. I can not believe how crazy that game was. once again, the deal with the media to see that everyone would be on the edge of their seats for the entire game. The result was outstanding!(for me anyways) Go Canada Go!
The Olympics proved to be a 2 week event that has made very Canadians crazy proud. Walking around proud as peacocks, chests held high happy to be considered the best. As well as being proud of the athletes and the commitment that made to be the best of the best, Canadians proved to be awesome hosts to our friends from around the world! I am proud of how we dealt with the bad weather, terrible press and a naughty girls hockey team! We cowboyed up and showed the world that we are a great place to visit and that everyone is welcome to visit!
I am happy to see the Olympics come to a close, I could not handle another 2 weeks of late nights on the edge o my seat! But, I sure was a great addiction to satisfy, I hope all of you enjoyed it as well!
Oh Canada, our Home and Native Land..........
Saturday morning once again proved to be another epic ski day! The snow was once again top of boot deep and light and fluffy. A dream ski day again! The catch on this one was that I had a group that I was coaching that morning. My ski clients pay a lot of money and have a high expectation in the sessions that they attend, they expect to ski away each week with some new tools to improve their sking. Saturday turned out to be a dream day for me. As we gathered at the bottom of the hill to head into our session, one of the ladies in the group apologized. I wondered what it was she was going to say, she said they wanted to ski and not listen to my teach. WOW! A dream come true, we headed up as a group and skied for the entire 2 hour session! thank you to my group for their desire to ski powder, it turn out to be a bit of a ski bonanza for me! The day finished great as well. It was a full moon and a few friends headed out to the country for a moonlight snowshoe and some dinner! After a great ski day it was the icing on the cake, finish the day with a good walk through the forest with tons of snow!
Sunday was another great day on snow. With so much fresh snow over a couple of days the conditions proved to be excellent throughout the resort. My group on Sunday had a similar idea to Saturday's group. Lets go ski! SO for 2 hours we flew up and down enjoying the rest of our dream ski weekend.
As many of you know the weekend finished with the suspense of the Canada/US gold medal Olympic hockey game. I can not believe how crazy that game was. once again, the deal with the media to see that everyone would be on the edge of their seats for the entire game. The result was outstanding!(for me anyways) Go Canada Go!
The Olympics proved to be a 2 week event that has made very Canadians crazy proud. Walking around proud as peacocks, chests held high happy to be considered the best. As well as being proud of the athletes and the commitment that made to be the best of the best, Canadians proved to be awesome hosts to our friends from around the world! I am proud of how we dealt with the bad weather, terrible press and a naughty girls hockey team! We cowboyed up and showed the world that we are a great place to visit and that everyone is welcome to visit!
I am happy to see the Olympics come to a close, I could not handle another 2 weeks of late nights on the edge o my seat! But, I sure was a great addiction to satisfy, I hope all of you enjoyed it as well!
A Canadian Man's weekend!
Since my post, shich seesm like en eternity ago, I have had a ton of fun! Yes, it was like a weekend at the cottage(teh cabin for American friends) since last Wednesday.
It did start on a great note Thusday with my normal workouts, I will not call them routine as that suggests a boring part to them. My monring Yoga as always proved successful. I practioced twice last week and founf the benefits to be even greater. Over the next few weeks I am going to stick with a couple of practices a week to get me ready for the start of my traning. It is also beneficail as it allows me to meet the people who will particaipting in my upcoming ROGA clinic! ROGA? What the heck is ROGA? Running and Yoga! Yes, my passion for coaching and teaching is coming to reality with my first true run clinic. It is being done as a combined practice with POWER YOGA CANADA. It is going to be a clinic for first timers up to 10k for an upcoming spring race. After each run/training session we will follow it with a Yoga practice. I am so looking frward to it starting. I have to thank the Pauline and Kinndli from PYC for their support and encouragement in getting this program going with them! Wahoo! As some people know, I have a slogan, LIVE FOR YOUR DREAMS! This is the beginning of a realization of a a dreama nd it is a lot of fun!
Thursday also was another great swim day. Overall as I sugested I would do I am upping my distances in my practices. As I have done some good drills and technical work, I think it is important to push the miles a bit on those drills to keep form over the longer course. Some of it was tough! Did a ladder drills, 1 x 100, 2 x 200, 3 x 300. Not to crazy? Did the first 100, started the next 200 on 2:10 from start time, then started my subsequent 200 on 3:50, then for the 300 on 5:20. For you fish like people, probably a piece of cake. As I just got a conistent 1:50 a few weeks ago, so it was a great push workout! I love the intesnsity of those workouts, and wil contiue to nupn the ante! My intensity gets to my training partner as I push him beyond what he thinks he can do. But, as I tell him, once at the start line, cutting the mileage or intensity is not an option!
Following my great swim, was week 2 of my ruin club at Lululemon. The weather man promised impending weather chaos, so I did not know what to expect. As I arrived at the store it was great to see the people from teh week befreo returning as well as one more new runner joiming in. It was a graet 5k short run to get people into the winter run groove and set some base miles for new runners as well as some who have not been out for a while. It is a great group to lead and run with as they all have a goal in mind and want to work towards it together.
After my run the boys part of the weeked truly started. The beginning adventure was a 2 hour drive through a crazy winter storm. I am talking a strom where the roads were not distinguishable from the fields, a 2 hour white knuckle why the hewll am I doing this drive! Once a year my ski club has a 'Men's Day', it was a Friday last week! A day where 750 men get together on the premise that they are going to ski! Ususally does not happen nearly that way. So, I had to get up north to meet the friends that I was hosting for the event. The drive was awesome though, I listed to the Canadian/US womens gold medal game as I drove up! WOW! Couple of times I almost drove off the road becasue of the excitement(and the fact thatI did not know where the road was) What an awesome game! I love nothing more than hearing the National anthem being played at the end of a game! It was a graet game playing a great rivalry! Truly made the scary drive a blast! When I finall y did get up north, another tremendous Canadian/Olympic moment! Wathcing Johaniie Rochette skate to a medal finish! OK, if that did not stir an emotion in you, you are a hard ass! It represented the Olympic spirit in teh greatest way and she could not have honored her mother in a more fitting way than a medal finish! I know that she does not read my blog, but, WAY TO GO! She should serve as a role model to every athlete and child! It was awesome!
Friday moring was the greatest part of mens day! Woke up to more than a foot of new snow. It was well over the top of my ski boots and the club was closed to only 750 people! A powder day! If you are a skier this means something to you. There is a saying, 'there are no friends on powder days', for each his won and go find a new track! Holy smnokes, run after run was epic, doing turn with snow flying into my face, hitting air and landing in snow piles above my waist. Turn after turn I giggled like a scholl girl flying down the hill like a fool out of control taking huge airs and living the dream! It ranks amongst the best ski days I have ever had! The best part, so many of the guys were hung over from the night before, they did not stay out to ski it! Ususally at mens day a lot of beer is involved, this year I had one beer at lunch as I wanted to be out on the snow as long and productively as I could! I skied my ass off! If you ever want to learn to powder ski, give me the time and the place and I will be there! NO, you dont have to pay me, just give me an excuse! :)
The antics following skiing are typical of amny room full of beer and 700 men. A lot of farting, tons of food, a bad comedian. It was a good day as it did raise $10000's for charities. Overall at 10 out of 10 day!
TO BE CONTINUED.........
It did start on a great note Thusday with my normal workouts, I will not call them routine as that suggests a boring part to them. My monring Yoga as always proved successful. I practioced twice last week and founf the benefits to be even greater. Over the next few weeks I am going to stick with a couple of practices a week to get me ready for the start of my traning. It is also beneficail as it allows me to meet the people who will particaipting in my upcoming ROGA clinic! ROGA? What the heck is ROGA? Running and Yoga! Yes, my passion for coaching and teaching is coming to reality with my first true run clinic. It is being done as a combined practice with POWER YOGA CANADA. It is going to be a clinic for first timers up to 10k for an upcoming spring race. After each run/training session we will follow it with a Yoga practice. I am so looking frward to it starting. I have to thank the Pauline and Kinndli from PYC for their support and encouragement in getting this program going with them! Wahoo! As some people know, I have a slogan, LIVE FOR YOUR DREAMS! This is the beginning of a realization of a a dreama nd it is a lot of fun!
Thursday also was another great swim day. Overall as I sugested I would do I am upping my distances in my practices. As I have done some good drills and technical work, I think it is important to push the miles a bit on those drills to keep form over the longer course. Some of it was tough! Did a ladder drills, 1 x 100, 2 x 200, 3 x 300. Not to crazy? Did the first 100, started the next 200 on 2:10 from start time, then started my subsequent 200 on 3:50, then for the 300 on 5:20. For you fish like people, probably a piece of cake. As I just got a conistent 1:50 a few weeks ago, so it was a great push workout! I love the intesnsity of those workouts, and wil contiue to nupn the ante! My intensity gets to my training partner as I push him beyond what he thinks he can do. But, as I tell him, once at the start line, cutting the mileage or intensity is not an option!
Following my great swim, was week 2 of my ruin club at Lululemon. The weather man promised impending weather chaos, so I did not know what to expect. As I arrived at the store it was great to see the people from teh week befreo returning as well as one more new runner joiming in. It was a graet 5k short run to get people into the winter run groove and set some base miles for new runners as well as some who have not been out for a while. It is a great group to lead and run with as they all have a goal in mind and want to work towards it together.
After my run the boys part of the weeked truly started. The beginning adventure was a 2 hour drive through a crazy winter storm. I am talking a strom where the roads were not distinguishable from the fields, a 2 hour white knuckle why the hewll am I doing this drive! Once a year my ski club has a 'Men's Day', it was a Friday last week! A day where 750 men get together on the premise that they are going to ski! Ususally does not happen nearly that way. So, I had to get up north to meet the friends that I was hosting for the event. The drive was awesome though, I listed to the Canadian/US womens gold medal game as I drove up! WOW! Couple of times I almost drove off the road becasue of the excitement(and the fact thatI did not know where the road was) What an awesome game! I love nothing more than hearing the National anthem being played at the end of a game! It was a graet game playing a great rivalry! Truly made the scary drive a blast! When I finall y did get up north, another tremendous Canadian/Olympic moment! Wathcing Johaniie Rochette skate to a medal finish! OK, if that did not stir an emotion in you, you are a hard ass! It represented the Olympic spirit in teh greatest way and she could not have honored her mother in a more fitting way than a medal finish! I know that she does not read my blog, but, WAY TO GO! She should serve as a role model to every athlete and child! It was awesome!
Friday moring was the greatest part of mens day! Woke up to more than a foot of new snow. It was well over the top of my ski boots and the club was closed to only 750 people! A powder day! If you are a skier this means something to you. There is a saying, 'there are no friends on powder days', for each his won and go find a new track! Holy smnokes, run after run was epic, doing turn with snow flying into my face, hitting air and landing in snow piles above my waist. Turn after turn I giggled like a scholl girl flying down the hill like a fool out of control taking huge airs and living the dream! It ranks amongst the best ski days I have ever had! The best part, so many of the guys were hung over from the night before, they did not stay out to ski it! Ususally at mens day a lot of beer is involved, this year I had one beer at lunch as I wanted to be out on the snow as long and productively as I could! I skied my ass off! If you ever want to learn to powder ski, give me the time and the place and I will be there! NO, you dont have to pay me, just give me an excuse! :)
The antics following skiing are typical of amny room full of beer and 700 men. A lot of farting, tons of food, a bad comedian. It was a good day as it did raise $10000's for charities. Overall at 10 out of 10 day!
TO BE CONTINUED.........
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