It’s been a while. With tons of training and school winding up for the year, I haven’t had much spare time. But since I’m racing the Iron Mountain Triathlon tomorrow I’ve got some time on my hands today so a quick update:
- Finished 8th at the North Shore Sprint in 1:03:16. Should’ve been about 4th and 1:02 as they made me swim an extra lap. But that’s old news.
- Raced the Campbell Heights road race (50 km). Things were going great until I hesitated when an attack happened on the last lap and I got dropped going up a hill. Finished well back.
- Followed that up with the Westside Classic road race (80 km). Raced in the category 4-5 race and finished 29th out of almost 100 riders. Starting to gain confidence in bike racing.
- Completed the North Shore double last weekend. An epic 100+ km, 4.5 h ride which included climbing both Cypress and Seymour. That’s after having climbed Cypress on Wednesday with LETC.
- Tuesday nights have been spent at UBC racing in the Escape Velocity crits. My confidence has been growing each and every week and finally (after more than a year) managed to earn myself some points with a 4th place finish this past week.
- Starting to get my running legs back again too. Had some solid track workouts the past two weeks with a nice mix of fast (3:35 km’s) and slower than pace (practicing how it feels in a race quite often).
- Tomorrow is my first Olympic distance race of the year. Should be interesting since I only finished two last year. Hoping to do the swim in about 23 minutes, do 1:05 on the bike and about 38 minutes on the run.
But until then, today is going to be spent getting some easy workouts in and relaxing while watching the US Open.
