Red Deer Marathon

On the weekend I did the Woody's World RV marathon. The results are up on the website. 4:49:20 I was 2 minutes faster than the last time. I think this was a harder course plus the heat made it challenging. The Edmonton course is flat with one downhill and one uphill. The Red Deer course was up and down and varied terrain. It's amazing the mental games one plays when you are racing. I went from I can do 4 hours to Maybe I can catch a ride in that guys pick-up within an hour. I went from not walking to trying to keep running. I went 28km before I walked and it was at a water station where I first walked. I don't know. I'm not a runner. I'm happy that I finished but I'm dissapointed that I didn't do a lot better than the last time. No one can say that running a marathon is easy. I've done 2 now and they are both different and both extremely hard to finish. What blows me away is the guy who won does ultra marathons and he's doing one next week, he used red deer as a training run.
One good thing I guess. I never lost any bottles from my belt or dropped any either. Another positive thing is most people couldn't do this race and I've done 2 of them. I think it makes me stonger as a person knowing this. Anyho I'll post some pics as I get them the website said 7-10 days and we have 14 more pictures to take on the camera before we can develop the film. Talk wit cha l8r my peeps!

More evaluations...

So Mr. Quick is coming again to evaluate me. This is # 4 I believe. I've been evaluated so much I'm losing count. Tomorrow is hopefully the last one. Not much is new just busy with school, training and the new puppy. This weekend it's the ardrossan stage race in E-town. Next weekend I'm doing a marathon run in Red Deer. I don't know what's after that I haven't looked that far on my schedule. Might be doing a race in Manitoba so I might be able to see Mike again but he never e-mails me so I'm not sure if he's even home at that time. Let me know so I can sign up for the race man! That's about it, busy, busy. TTYL, My peeps! DOC:-i out!

Went to Calgary and got burned!

So we went to Red Deer on Friday night then off to Calgary on Saturday. It was the 1st time trial of the year. Nasty windy on the way out but nice tail wind on the way back. To do 10 km against the wind it took me about 25 min maybe longer. I avg 21-27 km/h and on the way back it took me 15 min I think . I averaged 45-67.5 km/h on the way back. Anyway my total time was close to 40 min. Either over or under. We were only biking for close to an hour and a half and both of us got burned. White flesh doesn't fair well in the open air with actual sun. Today I have parts of my legs, arms and face with weird burn patterns. I also got hives on my arms and legs, probably have cancer or something. I don't know. Maybe they are just heat blisters. On Sunday we were supposed to go to Clagary's race city speedway to have Colleen do her 1st crit of the year but the race was cancelled due to wind and cold. Freakin wusses. We went to do a race not bail! There was no water on the course or snow so why cancel it? Oh well we only travelled about 6 hours to do the race. Bicisport didn't even have the decency to cancel it the night before. Plus there wasn't a note or anything telling us why or even if it was cancelled. The results from the day before weren't posted and colleen couldn't get her money back cause nobody was there. Bastardos!!! Anyway at least we had one good day of racing. It was a tough 20km but it was still fun. Got to hang out with my little bro later in the day after a good meal at Luciano's. Talk to ya later my Peeps!
Doc out!