Monthly Archive: May 2009

May
20

Race Report – North Shore Sprint

Coming soon. I swear.

May
20

The Way I See It #18

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to.” – Kahlil Gibran

May
14

The Way I See It #17

“Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.” -Ayn Rand (Author)

May
09

Morning Coffee

Been a while since I’ve had the chance to do this. Just sit down with a coffee, the newspaper and relax on Saturday morning. Forgot how much I enjoy it. It’s been a nice easy recovery week. Just some tough workouts on Wednesday otherwise it has been mostly easy stuff. Starting to get a little …

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May
06

The Way I See It #16

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss (Author)

May
04

Race Report – Kamloops Sprint

So the triathlon season finally begins. After a fall of running, a winter of swimming and spring spent biking, it was time to try them all at once for the first time in 2009. Going in I was expecting to swim 9 minutes for the 600 m swim (1:30 100′s), somewhere between 30-31 minutes for …

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May
01

Lesson Learned

Sometimes you have to learn things the hard way. You can read and be told things but sometimes it only really sinks in when you experience it first hand. The lesson: improper micro structures (weekly schedules) can be killer. With travelling to Kamloops tomorrow and then a race Sunday before driving all the way back, I knew …

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