There’s a 50 day challenge going around in some form or another. Knowing that I would never make the challenge, I’m not even going to go down that route… Instead, it just makes me want to swim more than I usually do, just to not fall behind. I’m seeing a lot of people talk about how great their training is going, and some rediculously fast pace times being hammered away in the pool and on the road. Maybe it’s time I step it up a bit.
More stuff filmed in preparation for the swim clinic.
I gave myself whiplash by diving into the water on Thursday! Pain down my back and up my neck. I’m so awesome.
Swimming has been going well. Starting to get used to the increase in volume. Monday was a 5300m swim, with some steady efforts. The underwater camera has been fun too!
Running has been fun too. I’m finding it difficult to get some of the harder stuff in. Being motivated to push for an extended period of time is difficult.
5x (10-20-30-40-50-40-30-20-10) @:5-10 rest
Some pictures are up.
Results, not so much. I’ll get them up tuesday!
The event went off without any problems and was hugely successful. I’m really proud to have had the support given to the event as well as to me during the process of organizing and running the show.
I’ve learned quite a bit while going through the whole process. There’s a quite a bit of stuff to do from having an idea in your head to having it in reality 2 months later. Of course nothing that happened yesterday could have been possible without the volunteers, the majority of whom I have never met! Also, I would have gone crazy without the support of Andrew and Tom on the days before the event (especially the night before).
Next year I’ll have to find a way start the pool set up processes earlier without having to do my regular duties at work while I’m trying to set up. Friday night was a gong-show with a 3-10 pm shift which turned into a 3pm-2am stint at the pool, which was follwed up with a 430-10am bit on Saturday morning. Thanks again to Andrew and Tom for getting us through as well as our sponsors who kept the athletes well fed and well prized (so many draw prizes and race package goodies).
Port Coquitlam Parks and Recreation
Save-On Foods
Trio Sport Events
Popeyes Suppliments
Europe Bakery and Deli
First Touch Soccer
Team Aquatic Supplies
Dewys Pub & Grill
PoCo Motion
Starbucks Coffee – Port Coquitlam:Prarie
Fraser Valley Building Supplies
Kics Lemonade
I’ll post the results when I’m at work tonight! Here’s some pictures of the set up and event
5k Challenge Welcome!
Lots of prizes!
Tons of Food
Sponsor Boards
My office = Race HQ
Race Day!
Look! We're Winning!
UBC Results are in!
6 out of 24? That’s awesome. We even missed out on over 5 swims because a few swimmers had to leave a bit early! With the missed swims, we still beat our score from last year!
We’ve grown quite a bit as a club, with an uprecidented 12 swimmers (including Andrew and myself)! We even cleared the benches to form 3 teams for the 4×50 FR relay to clinch 2 1st place spots and a 2nd place in separate divisions!
http://www.ubcmasters.com/results/15-Nov-2009-UBCMasters.pdf
As for my own training, lets just say that UBC was an eye opening experience.
Lesson learned = a) Ironman’ing doesn’t mean you can swim fast..
b) Having a second coach on deck makes the swimming/coaching combo WAAAY easier!
All that running around - we deserve the sit down
5K Challenge
The 5k Challenge is ready to go! We’re almost sold out! Race packages are being assembled, event posters are up, and we’re stoked to have so much support from local businesses! Lots of great prizes!
I’m really looking forward to it!
I’m leaning towards swimming rather than running the 1/2 marathon.
What to do?! What to do!?
And no, I won’t do both!
Yeah! I’m putting together Hyde Creek Masters’ first event since we established ourselves as a team a little over a year ago. To put together an event from scratch is definatly a fun process, and there has been a lot of support from a management standpoint as well as from local business!
I just opened up registration an hour ago on the City server, so we’re official now! Things are underway and I’ve solidified the race souvenir stuff. It’s sweet, but I can’t tell you what it is because it’ll ruin the surprise. I can tell you it’s not a t-shirt because I think everyone and their dog has a race t-shirt. For more info: Hyde Masters 5K Challenge
So spread the word! A fun, cheap event with free food, a race souvenir, and draw prizes! What more could you ask for?
Victoria went well, all things considered! After Ironman, there were some lingering issues with my legs involving some loose ligaments, over tightened muscles and an abused IT band. Because of these things, running/training was minimal. I was dying to run since I can’t sit down for long periods of time anymore, but doing anything was out, so all I could do was wait! And, wait I did, until 2 days ago when I got to run my first full marathon in 3 years (barring any marathons during Ironman, which isn’t really running… more like surviving)
Perfect day for a run
I was 41 min for the first 10k, 42 min for the second 10k, 42 min for the third 10 k… then I hit the wall at around 35k! A gel went flying out my pocket so I was a bit deprived until I got my hands on another gel further down the road, had to wait for the sugar to kick in, and then survived the last 5km. Horrendous way to finish, but still under 3:00!
Running people down
Came away 4th in my AG, and 62 OA, but now the results say that I’m 5th in AG, 63 OA, but I’m sitting on a 4th place trophy… Not sure what to do!
Awards
So in the end, I gone under 3 hours, qualified for Boston, got myself some tight legs (and a reoccuring injury), as well as a nice blister on my right foot. Excellent way to end the season! The kicker? Am I in the off season now, or do I run the Fall Classic Half in November? Oh it never ends (which I’m happy about)!
So the other things that were promised in the title!
My (Senior) Masters swimmers! They cleaned up at Sr. Games at the end of the Summer!!! Super proud of them! 19 Individual medals, 4 relay medals. Yes, this picture is framed in my office now. It’s awesome that the swimmers I coach are the people little kids refer to when they say, “My grandma can kick your ass!”…
Just wait till next year… First meet of 2009/2010 season is only 6 weeks away, and I’m pretty sure our competitive team has grown quite a bit this year! Can’t wait!
The sweet Oakleys from winning my AG at Nationals this year! Couldn’t have come at a better time since the ones I’m wearing now are really starting to show their age… I guess its better the glasses than my eyeballs.
Someone has firearms and has been shooting near my research site in Delta… Crazy! Just found these on the access trail yesterday… great.
Sunday was the Desert Half in Osoyoos. Went up Saturday afternoon, picked the race package, checked into the hotel and called it an early night.
Sunday morning went off without anything major. Getting ready in transition, met a guy who said he recognized me from IMC 08, but I couldn’t recall his name. Felt really bad since I saw him again at the lunch/awards. It was sort of weird since he wasn’t the only guy that talked to me like they knew me. I think I have a terrible memory..
Ended up 15th overall, with the age group victory. Apparently, with Oakley as the race sponsor, I scored myself a new pair of custom shades! I’ve been told it’s in the mail! On top, I got a nice New Balance bag, and wine glasses for the win. Looking at the breakdown of the splits: I know I have my work cut out for me on the bike, but the run surpassed anything I had imagined. The results say that I laid down the 5th fastest run time at 1:24, which is only 2 min off my best half marathon time. It leads me to wonder how fast I can actually run a half marathon. Sub 1:15 perhaps? Maybe I can get my NAIA qualifying time for next year… but it doesn’t look like I’ll be running for SFU anyways. Shame.
Swim went alright. Still slower than expected. I’m positive that my sighting is not all that great, since I was always way off the mark. 2 loop course made for some cheering half way. That was cool
Bike was nice. Got to race with the new helmet and wheels. I have to say that the new helmet is a bit warmer than the regular one. Got passed by a ton of people, not too surprising (it happens in EVERY race). Kept it cool, didn’t try to hammer knowing that the run was still comming.
Run was great. Felt great 1-2k into the run. Settled into a nice pace and started to pick off people infront of me. 2nd lap: picked up the pace some since I had a lot left in me. In hindsight, I could’ve ran a bit harder throughout the entire run. Sorta warm at a balmy 33 degrees. I’m looking sorta sweaty…
Left Osoyoos feeling great. Looking forward to a few days easy, before hitting the final stretch for Ironman.
