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Category Archive: Race Report
Aug
03
Race Report – Squamish 10k
What a quiet week. Only one race. Last week was three (Tuesday Night Crit, Kits Challenge, and EV Warp Speed TT). Next week is three again (Tuesday Night Crit, Provincial TT Champs, Walnut Grove Triathlon). So it was a bit of a nice break. Martina and I made the trip up to Squamish on Sunday for …
Jul
06
Race Report – Squamish Triathlon
Keeping perspective in triathlon can be tough sometimes. Withthree sports to try to master, it is rare (maybe even impossible), to be on top of your game withall three at one time. So post race there is almost always something to be happy with and something to be disappointedwith. The battle then is being able …
Jun
23
Race Report – Iron Mountain Triathlon
After completing only two olympic distance triathlons last year (with the DNF at Cultus and Worlds turning into a Duathlon) I was ready this weekend to remind myself what 2 hours of hard work was like again. Race morning was early (4 am wake up) but normal. Butterflies in the stomach on the drive out …
May
20
Race Report – North Shore Sprint
Coming soon. I swear.
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 …
Apr
28
Race Report – Race the Ridge
This past weekend was my first stage race on the bike. Race the Ridge was a three stage, two day race in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows. Saturday was a 50 km road race followed Sunday by a 16 km time trial in the morning and a 30 minute crit in the afternoon. I went in expecting …
Oct
27
Race Report – Cunningham Seawall 9.5k
Today’s running tip: Play Rock Band, especially drums, the night before a race as it strengthens calf muscles. Yesterday I laced up the racing flats again for round 2 of 3 of my fall running season at the James Cunningham Seawall Race. I took a much more controlled approach to the start than I did …
Oct
14
Race Report – Turkey Trot (10k)
Was back at the races yesterday with the first of a number of run races this fall. The Turkey Trot was a 10 km which started at Granville Island, went over the Burrard Street Bridge and then around False Creek back to Granville Island. And after a beautiful Saturday and Sunday, Monday, of course, brought …
Aug
19
Race Report – Kelowna Apple (Nationals)
“The route to personal excellence and meaningful self-growth is full of ups and downs; progressions and regressions; great leaps forward, backslides, and plateaus. But as long as the overall direction is up, you will ascend the mountain-and there are many mountains to climb in this life, all of different textures.” – Terry Orlick (In Pursuit …