Alive With Sport

I’m Canadian, eh! Which means my pools are 25 meters. Not 22.86 meters. I mean who else in the world – other than you crazy Americans – makes something 22.86 units long. Swimming in the shorty pool does however make you feel like a rock star. I can swim 1:20’s [...]

Last Thursday I headed up to Penticton for this “Performance” training camp. It was a very good experience, well run, and quality workouts with great people.
On Friday, I did my own workout in the Penticton pool. OMG, it’s hot in that pool. I guess the old fogies won’t get in [...]

Overall, it was a busy week with Xmas parties canceling workouts during the week.  The weekend involved the Vanoc 2010 volunteer training, so I only managed the bike commute downtown.  Because of the Vanoc workshop, I ran my long run on Saturday. My route to MacDonald Beach was awesome!  Almost 30km, right from my [...]

This week the highlights included a big day of spin/swim on Wednesday and two runs with Penney.  She’s becoming quite the runner.  Friday’s swim included a 100m TT where I pulled off a 1:24.

swim
bike
run
core/stretch

2hrs – 4.7km
3h25
4h ~40km
2hrs

Weekly total = 9:25 + 2hrs core/stretch/yoga
On the weekend, some wet mountain biking with Bronwyn and Clayton was in [...]

I’ve got one last weekend of training to go. Next weekend, I’m in Boston for work, and then World’s are upon us. With 40 nations represented, I start with the wave of 85 other women in the F30-34 category. Our start gun goes off at 7:35am in the morning. Ack, that [...]

“I’ve got a new secret weapon… and it’s called reverse training!” After 4 workouts for the whole of March, I had a great time trial weekend. “What’s this?”, you say. “Joanne’s got a new secret weapon called reverse training. Tell me more!” Reverse training is where you put life on [...]

It was warm and sunny night for tonights track workout. I had seriously heavy legs from last night’s bike TT. I tried to tell myself, “This is what my legs will feel like at IronMan.” I felt much better a mile into the run, and ended up working pretty hard with Amy and [...]

Tonight’s workout, a 48km bike time trial (TT) followed by a 20 min brick run, was a quality session.
After a warm-up about 20 riders from our club gathered at the TT start. A rider was sent off every 5 seconds with the faster riders heading out last. As we waited, my thoughts wandered [...]

In the Red corner, we have Jake weighing in at over 25lbs … [crowd roars]
Tonight, was a night for the heavy weights. Given that it was our club’s first outdoor ride, I contemplated bringing out the race bike. But in planning for a multi-workout day with a weather forecast for pouring rain, [...]

Mentally, I wasn’t feeling into this workout today. However, it’s amazing what you can accomplish if you just set your body to autopilot. Jessica and I paced this run together. The run was 3mile (1/2 a lap short of 5km). If I start racing at 7min/mile pace, I’ll be setting PB’s [...]