The Beginning

Welcome to my new blog!  My last blogging experience was a couple years ago when I rode my touring bike from Vancouver, BC (where I live now) to San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico.  Since then I've gravitated to a faster moving interest in bicycles and am now throwing in running and dreadful swimming.  I spent the summer of 2009 doing a lot of road biking in Portland.  Some cyclocross and gold tights, 200 miles from Seattle to Portland in one day and a mountain bike race on a road bike equiped with knobby tires. 

Then I moved to Vancouver, BC and for some strange reason decided that I wanted to learn how to swim.  I really stunk and sometimes still stink at swimming.  I'm slow.  But I've come leaps and bounds since my first few weeks in the pool.  Hiring a swim coach was a smart move.  He also helped me train for my first 70.3 or Half Ironman that took place last summer in Lake Stevens, WA.  I also did two olympic and one sprint distance triathlon.  I'll upload a super cool section with all my PB's(personal best) soon..

I've been trying to get this blog up and running for quite a while.  This is hopefully going to be a log of my adventures in Ironman Canada training, nutrition and whatever else I feel like talking about..

I'm training for Ironman Canada, which takes place in Penticton, BC on August 28th.  For those who don't know the distance of an Ironman:  3.8k swim/180k bike/42.2k run  or 2.4m/112m/26.2 for my US friends..  I've hired CMS coaching (husband and wife duo) to coach me for the next eight months. 

I'm also attending UBC full time.  Thats going to be fun juggling 3 classes(luckily all on tuesday, wednesday and thursday) and full time Ironman training- 9 workouts per week.  Three of each discipline, with one day off.  I'm learning that I have to pack my lunch(es) and backpack the night prior or I'm totally lost all day.  Today I forgot my running clothes and had to scavenge the UBC Triathlon Club office for some lost and found stuff.  

Ok, I just had to get this started, afterall, this is my first week of training.  Wish me luck!