Alive With Sport

In previous year’s, all of this crazy triathlon training was about the racing but this year its about the events. A subtle distinction, but a distinction none the less.
What a better event to kick of the year, then my swim bunny appearance at the Delta Triathlon:

Looks like I’m starting the year off right with a 36:23 personal best at the Steveston Ice Breaker 8km race! I went out way too hard but still hung on for about a 30sec best time. It hurt like a son-of-a-gun. With about 2km to go, I couldn’t help thinking I hope [...]

The second half of my Oliver race report is here. I don’t want to stretch this race report out too much longer… but the reason why I’m reflecting is that I’d like to learn from what happened on the run – specifically on the second half of the run. Short story, I ran [...]

Ok, so now we’re at the swim start. I’m a different swimmer now. Much faster, so I wanted to get a spot near the front. I was in the first row… but way out on the side. The strategy worked well. As you can see from the picture, it still was a bit crazy but I was way more comfortable. I like the new one loop course. My time was 34:03 (last year 34:54) – Hmmm, maybe I was a little too comfortable and probably should have gone faster. Oh well, no biggee, it was comfortable.

I had a really good time in Oliver and I’ve got the photos to prove it. For me, racing well is not about my time and/or my placing, it’s about my internal attitude. I’ve talked about this perspective before. I think it’s because after many years in amateur sport, I’m not interested in [...]

Great race at Oliver! Personal bests, good friends, and rockin’ bike split. A recipe for a great day. More details later…
results are here
Still in the Okanagon, relaxing with lattes this morning.

captured by the fine folks at SI photography…
Check out this great picture of me during warm-up, wool socks and goggles = essential gear for any bike warmup.

and another one of me cruising in on the run.

The best thing about the Delta triathlon was volunteering for the kids race.  I took the kids on the pre-race bike tours of the race course on Friday night.  I also got up at 5:30am on race day to be a bike course marshall.  My favorite thing was chatting with my new friend Jason.  He’s [...]