Rob

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Name: Rob Eakin
Date registered: January 21, 2008
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Latest posts

  1. All the days… — December 17, 2011
  2. RTC Vancouver — October 29, 2011
  3. You Don’t Want It Bad Enough — October 15, 2011
  4. Season In Review — September 30, 2011
  5. It Gets Better — September 25, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Might As Well — 4 comments
  2. Truth — 2 comments
  3. Positive Rivalry — 2 comments
  4. Best Music of 2009 — 2 comments
  5. How It’s Done 2 — 2 comments

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Dec
17

All the days…

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“I am made of all the days you don’t see, not just the one you do.” That’s been the last few months. In the pool, in the gym, on the track (and finally now on the bike again). Learning about myself, seeing glimpses of improvement. Nothing spectacular, fancy, or particularly interesting. Just putting in the …

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Oct
29

RTC Vancouver

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RTC Vancouver

I’m a week late in this post but better late than never. After a couple of weeks of training informally with them I can finally say that I’m officially a member of Triathlon Canada’s new Regional Training Centre here in Vancouver. It is a big step in my development as a triathlete and one that …

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Oct
15

You Don’t Want It Bad Enough

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Came across a great post from the uncompromising Paulo Sousa this morning. I heard this story about Tony Dungy from Warren Sapp in some radio show. When Tony Dungy was coaching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they went to play an away game and they lost… by a lot. On the plane trip back, the players …

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Sep
30

Season In Review

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To Suffer Is To Learn

It’s only September and I have plans to do plenty of training and possibly some running races in the fall, but this time of year always feels like it’s time to start anew. The combination of Nationals being over, going back to work and most triathlons being done makes this a good time to reflect …

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Sep
25

It Gets Better

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Many of us (including myself even though I hadn’t entirely planned it this way) are in the midst of our yearly break from training. This brings with it all sorts of challenges that some may not be entirely prepared to deal with. Many of my closest friends were struggling with many of the same issues …

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Sep
23

Further Than You Can Dream

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Owen Sound Goals

I’m in the process of writing a post about this last season and where next season will take me but as I was playing around with Google Docs this morning I came across this. I wrote those down at the end of my first season in triathlon four years ago. It’s a nice reminder as I …

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Aug
26

Race Report – Nationals

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Suffering

It’s a lot harder to write these things when races go pretty much as you hope and expect. A good but not great swim, a solid bike (though I am annoyed that I missed getting under the 1 hour mark by 30 seconds) and did enough on the run to win my age group and …

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Aug
20

Don’t Look Back

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Start Swimming

I don’t have many words to express how I’m feeling going into Nationals tomorrow so I’m just going to use Jordan Rapp‘s words in response to a post by Paulo Sousa about training: Training, to me, echoed the story of Orpheus descending into the underworld to retrieve his love, Eurydice. The journey to get her …

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Aug
04

Might As Well

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No Regrets

It is three days now until my first crack at an elite triathlon in Sooke and, unsurprisingly, I am coming across words and wisdom that seem to speak to me.  From Girard Vroomen‘s series on the traits of champions: Trait 5 of champions “Not afraid to fail: To a degree, we are all afraid to …

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Jul
13

Limit

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