For the past few years, I have been working on not comparing myself to others, mostly through fear of injuring myself while doing more than my body can handle or by trying to stay competitive with younger athletes that this body has no business being competitive with. My age group, …
After reflecting on the past few years of my transition to triathlon, i am most proud of the gains I have made in swimming. Ironically, this is my weakest discipline of the three, but I have worked at it, stuck with it and am motivated by the small successes. My…
After a great year of running and racing, which included 3 successful half-marathons, I was looking forward to this part of the half Ironman. But because it was my first one, I really had no idea what to expect. Over the summer, Dave kept reminding me, “Who knows how your…
The half-Ironman ride course at Mont Tremblant is described as hilly: 837 metres of elevation over 90 kilometres. Knowing that this was where I was going to be spending most of my time on race day, I made sure that I was ready for it. Since January, I have ridden…
On the Tuesday before my first half ironman event, Dave told me that he volunteered to kayak with the swimmers on race day. “You what?” “It will be great. I don’t know if I’ll be with the full or the half, but it will give me something to do. It…
It is no secret that I have always been a bit of an endurance junkie. This started with a daily aerobics class during my university years, but it wasn’t long before one class wasn’t enough so I would do two back-to-back. After graduating, I kept taking aerobics classes and started…
Today was supposed to be my A-race, the one I have dreamed about doing for years, the one that made me gulp when I registered for it last August and spent all fall, winter and spring training for. But Mother Nature had her own ideas and, last night, an ominous…
Not every race will be a good race and my triathlon in mid-June proved that. I was going into it tired – and I knew that. There was no taper, no time to rest, and I really didn’t care. Or did I? What I wanted out of the morning was…
Our society is driven by data – at work, at home, and at play. For me, a number junkie and data nerd, tracking my fitness stats is a bit of a hobby. How much further or faster did I go? How I am comparing to what I did last year? …
This summer, I took the plunge – literally. After months of throwing myself into the pool and getting comfortable with swimming almost 2000 metres continuously – but slowly – I decided it was finally time to do a triathlon. There is a big difference, though, between swimming in a pool…