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…
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…
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…
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…