The IVCF leadership team (minus Lilia) took off to Rocky Mtn House this past weekend to spend some time on the North Saskatchewan River getting to catch up with one another, do some planning for the next school year, and also to beef up on canoe skills.

Our trip was around 80 river kilometers, 6 hours the first day fron Saunders to the Devil’s Elbow where we camped overnight and then 4 hours the next day from Devils Elbow down into town in Rocky. An odd number of canoeists meant that there was a boat to Solo down the river all weekend. We took Ryan Lempers’ play boat along which proved to be a challenge but certainly an entertaining one. Steve and I spent the most time in there which was kinda odd because it’s not built for anyone close to 6 foot 5 inches tall. Some fun was had on Fishers where I ran the big ledge and climbed out of a curler that was about as tall as I was when kneeling in the boat.

Coming only 1 weekend before the big race it probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do but I brought my bike along and went for a 60km 6 km brick at 6 in the morning on Friday. I felt quite good on the bike so early in the morning which is a good sign, I haven’t had a ton of early morning workouts this season.