I am ironman yet again!

So I am an ironman yet again. This year was a tad bit slower due to the fact that I haven't trained much this year from May onwards but I still managed not to have to wear a glowstick! I finished with a time about 14 hours and 6 minutes. I had a long swim about 1 1/2 hours to do 3.8 km. It was brutal. I felt as if I was in a mosh pit and not in a swim. Lots of people came out with black eyes but not me I just had a slower swim time. My bike was awesome this year. I felt good anyway even though my time might not reflect it. Tail wind the first 20km or so and then headwinds the rest of the way. They were brutal and unrelentless. Smaller triathletes might not have had a fun time with the winds but I'm a bigger guy and I just pushed through it. It took me close to 7 hrs so my is slower than last year but the winds weren't a factor on the bike last year. I got up to 61km/h going down one hill. To me that is scary fast. To others it's alright. My marathon was a little slow this year because I started walking around the 15 mile mark of the race. I saw Colleen and Nate at the 21 km mark and they bosted my energy I ran up the hills as if I had fresh legs and then I hit the flat section and my brain said that's good enough and I started walking. I managed to try to do 5min run/walk and because of the aid stations (which were great by the way) I had a hard time maintaining this pace. Once I was on the final stretch I walked down southshore drive but then I saw my wife again and my son and that gave me motivation to finish running not walking. I was told that I wasn't done yet by one on the spectators as I kissed Colleen and to get going so I did. While Colleen and Nate went to get the stroller I was finishing my second Ironman Canada. It felt good to cross the line and I was happy to be done. I knew the protocol at the end of the race and I was quickly handed over to Colleen once I called her to find out where she was. It was a colder day for the race and afterwards I was glad for my warm clothes as I was shivering after the warm massage. I have a lot of respect for this race no matter how many times I do it. It's a tough course no matter what the conditions are like. I was fortunate to have two good days. There wasn't a fire, a sprinkle of rain but nothing to worry about and no snow. So at the end of the day the competitors are exhusted and so are the spectators. Thanks to everyone who helped me complete Ironman once again and to the Volunteers! Oh and especially to Colleen and Nate who spent the day supporting me.

Nate

This is Nate with his Mom about 1 hour after he was born.

Nate the Great!

I forgot my blogger password and login so I've hadn't posted anything for a while. As many of you probably know from Mike's site. Nate was born on May23. He arrived a little black and blue but he's fine now. I suck at posting pictures so I hope this works.

BIG Like Huge News!!!!!!

Colleen and I are expecting, well Colleen really I just contributed a little. Anyway she's expecting in June sometime. The little Ironsperm made their way to the egg! Whoo hooo! Oh ya she also got another job today so now she's a full time teacher! For those who care Joey is still nuts and my job is very busy. TTYL my peeps! Doc out:-)>

I am Ironman!

Hey for those who care...I finished the damn race! I am Ironman! I finished Ironman Canada with a time around 13 hours and 26 minutes and there's some seconds there as well but I don't care. If you do look at the results it knows! It was a brutally hot day. The swim was long at around 3.8 km. The bike was hot. No shade anywhere on the bike. A nice balmy 30 plus degrees. I had to stop 2 times because my feet felt as if they were on fire! Once at the special needs area and another time at a rest stop. I also only peed once at this same rest stop after Yellow lake. The crowds leaving penticton on Richter's pass and Yellow lake were fricking amazing! They lined the roads leaving a small space for us cyclists. It was sooo coool almost like the Tour de France. The bike was 180 km long. That was over 6 hours for me to accomplish. I do believe I got a wee bit of chaffing. Next a brutal 42 km run to end my day and this great triathlon! Once again there was barely any shade on this course. We had a brutal headwind the whole way out. Nice to have on the way back as it kind of pushed you a little. I met my wife 1/2 way on the run at the special needs area. If she had not been there I would have had to stop to fill my hip flasks with e-load. She pushed me to get up a hill and to keep going. I love you Colleen! Thanks for kicking my butt. It really helped! I ran back to penticton a mere 25km away. I saw the city and got a 2nd wind. I ran like I had no pain. For most of the last 10 km. The last 3 km were really hard but I kept pushing and made it to the finish. If you want more details just ask me and I'll go into more but I tend to babble. Talk to you later my peoples! #665

Holy Sh#t I got in!!!!!

I got in to Ironman Canada!http://www.ironman.ca/
I did the Great White North and I got a Lottery Spot into The Ironman Race!!!! Yipee!!! Sorry Mike, I won't be coming to W-town. I have to save my Money for a trip to P-town! I have to go build a fence I'll give you details in a little while! Yipee Yahooooo!

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!