The day started with fried eggs and a liter of yogurt. Many great days in the past four or five years have begun that way. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. With my blood sugar controlled and some fat and protein in my stomach I made my way out to the lake for the start […]
Continue ReadingI raced the Oliver half this past weekend. Preparation was essentially negligible with regards to triathlon in the prior three months. I have placed a focus on racing bikes and my limited training time has been focused on reaching the next level in road-racing rather than doing anything to prepare for racing a long course […]
Continue ReadingPower Data from Drayton Valley Sprint Tri: Mean Watts: 297 (=3.4 Watts/Kg – unimpressive) Normalized Watts: 311 VI: 1.047 – very proud, kept aggression in check! Fourth Place: Swim Split First Place: Bike Split Third Place: Run Split Second Place: Overall Fun Race. I may add more comments later. For now I’m just posting my […]
Continue ReadingIronman began with my arrival in Penticton about quarter past 5 in the morning. This was about 15 minutes ahead of last year and it made all the difference. I walked right through the lineup for body-marking, got myself marked. Got the tyres on my bike pumped and headed over to the toilets before it […]
Continue ReadingSatellite map of the Skyline, we ran south to north, the typical direction for single-day traverses. It leaves the fire-road until the end, and provides a route with net elevation loss rather than net elevation gain. Trailhead at 1700m We were happy this first river crossing after half an hour and 4kms covered had a […]
Continue ReadingRaceday arrived at 4:25 which harkens back to Ironman, the only other race I’ve done that started at 7:00am. We weren’t the first to transition by any means but we did get there early enough to pump tyres and get in the line for toilets before the bulk of the other athletes. Travis and I […]
Continue ReadingI’d raced the Spring Thaw Triathlon at the University of Alberta 4 times before and been the Race Director once. I’ve improved every single time I took on the course, and 2011 was my best effort here both in terms of physical preparation as well as strategic and mental preparation. I did few things wrong […]
Continue ReadingRace weight is what the scale shows me on race day. –Vince Matteo April 10, 2011The first indication that Ishould have been focusingharder on recovery:A failed long-run a fewdays after I started tobe strict instead of smartwith diet choices Trying to cut weight in the final three weeks before a marathon may help on paper […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Updates: 2011-03-21 to 2011-03-27 Sport Total Distance Total Time Min Pace Ave Pace Max Pace Pace Units Bike 85 km 2:50:00 30 30 30 kph Run 85.08 km 7:22:25 5:34 5:12 4:27 min per km Swim 7350 m 2:55:00 2:26 2:23 2:20 min per 100 meters Yoga 0 mi 0:50:00 na na na no […]
Continue ReadingPat, Erin and I represented the UofA Triathlon Club at the St. Albert 10 miler this morning. Becky was along as a cheering squad, and remarked that I did a better job of Pat than smiling on course, I’ll let her come cheer for us any day. That’s more encouraging than the typical “Wow Josh, […]
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