Further update

Well the weekend was screwed up if you ask me.  I did my last Time Trial of the year.  But before I start the damn race a stupid comissaire(race official) starts walking across the road so I go left to go around him but then he stops and then goes right so I start going left then he stops and I just held my line thinking he'd move but no.  Mister comissaire is stupid and doesn't budge and I'm too close now to go left or right or to stop so I yell "I'm hitting you!" and Bam!  I hit the guy & breaks his helmet (he had it on his back)in the process and I hit the pavement(my bike hit too).  I am now about 5 min from the start of my race and my thumb is bleeding, my arm and leg are sore but there was no apparent wound.  I'm shaking cause I've never hit anyone on a bike before and my bike is a wee bit screwed up.  Colleen tries to fix my chain but she couldn't and now she's covered in grease.  Jeff fixes my bike unaware that I've destroyed his helmet.  Maybe I appologized but I'm not entirely sure. Anyway the race happens and I finish with a time of around 1 hour and 12 min for a 40 Km time trial.  Not bad I guess.  Colleen finished in third for the women.  Way to go Colleen!  Next day Colleen does a Crit.  Once again a top 3 finish she actually won the race!  1st place overall!  Great Job Colleen!!!! I'm proud of you! 

Upcoming this weekend!

Tonight I'm off to my parental units place to finish working on the fence.  Tomorrow I should be doing my last Time Trial of the year out in Devon.  On Sunday I should be somewhere around Whyte Ave watching Colleen do a bike race and taking some pitcures and cheering her on.  I've applied to some jobs in Red Deer and Leduc, keep your fingers crossed.  That's about all that's new for now.  Talk to ya later peoples!

This is my sprint finish, what you don't see is I'm being chased down from some guy in black and I had to turn on the afterburners to beat him at the line. 

Heading out on the run. 

Climbing Emily Murphy hill. It looks flat in the picture but it does get steeper! I'm 2nd in this pic. 

I'm closest to the banner. One of the 4 bike laps coming out of Hawrelak park. 

swim start(you can't see me in this pic!) 

Wetsuit leadout, I'm the man in black! 

Edmonton ITU Triathlon

I really didn't want to do this race. Just ask Colleen if you don't believe me. It was all her idea, she believed that I could do an olympic distance(1.5 km swim, 40km bike, 10 km run)triathlon 1 week after a half and personally I didn't think I could recover enough to pull it off. Well I was wrong. I went out dispite me being a little pissy about it and did it in a time of 2 hrs 41 min and 5 secs.I had a blast on the bike going up and down hills I never ride on. Biking Groat was fun and doing emily murphy hill 4 times well that now just screams fun. It was a good day. Thanks a lot for talking me into doing it Colleen! I'll now try and post some pics! Later peoples!

heading out on the bike 

waiting for the start 

cornering 

GWN photo 

Great White North photos 

Man I feel like an old man!

"I hurt myself today to see if I'm still real, I focus on the pain the only thing that's real." Well I finished another half ironman. I beat last year's time by 10 minutes. I had a really good swim and a fast bike. I'm not sure about the run but the results should be up soon so I will know then. This year it took me 5:47:23 to do the race. Yup that's right nearly 6 hrs of non stop excercise. A 2km swim a 90km bike and a 21km run all in one day. To know the feeling of finishing one you just have to try it. I'll try to put up some pics from the race but I'm not sure if I can do it so lets see.

screw canada day a big one

Well I'm off to a crit in E-town right away. 1st it's in for a shower I go. After the crit I must come back to w-town where I shall hook up with the rest of the hornets at Timmy's and then head to Saddle Lake for the big Show. I won't be getting home until 5 something in the morning. Man that's going to suck! Any ho I must Flee! Later Kiddies.