Sleeeep!!!

I woke up this morning after going to bed early last night hoping to take advantage of my morning off of swimming. I awoke to see my clock saying 12:30, so much for my morning. I am not ussually a huge fan of sleeping in as I feel like I am sleeping away the best part of the day. However I think I may have been in desperate need of this sleep. I always loved the quote "I will sleep when I'm dead" Warren Zevon. I mean Its obviously a little far fetched, but it is an interesting outlook on life. Something to think about..

Training is going well, Couple more days left in the third build week of three including a TT in the swim tommorow, a bike ride including some hill repeats on the observatory, and the all and mighty track workout in the afternoon. Add a little money making at work to the mix and it should be a good but big day.

Also I have just confirmed that I will be travellling up to Whistler for a training camp this weekend. Some awsome cross country skiing on the olympic course and a nice change of scenery. I have never been to whistler in the winter before but I have heard it is a great atmosphere in the village up there! Pretty Excited. Thanks to the parents who are going to help me out financial wise it should be a great finish to this three weeks of killer training!

A picture from our last team trip up to Mt Washington. The snow is alays fun, especially when your with a good group.

It's Go Time!!

Yesterday marked the start of the year for me, as it was the first race of the season. It was the pioneer 8km at the saanich fair grounds. In my opinion you can train as hard as you want and treat as many training sessions like a race as you would like, however to me it is not the same. There is something about the air on race morning, the food tastes different and your body just is more ready to go. All winter we train and work as hard as we can but sometimes it is easy to forget why we go through all this pain. 6 months without racing it is hard to stay focused! However after just one running race yesterday I am more then ready to go. It puts everything into perspective and to me it means that race season is soon upon us! I am very enthused about this! Quick race report....The rface was alright, we just did a 5km hard to get some early season times and then I just finished off the race just under steady state pace. 5km split 16:44, so nothing crazy solid, however not bad either. I would have been happy with under 16:30 but I will take it considering the time of the year. Props go out to stevo with an insane split of 15:44 at the 5km and a little sprint off with one of the stronger local runners.

Training for the week, is another build week before recovery next week. some good training to come this week! Back on the track on Friday I am excited! Anyways for now I head to work at Romeo's.

Scotty

Fall Down 7 Times, Pick Yourself Up 8 Times.

Yesterday at the bike workout this quote was written up on the board(Fall down 7 times pick yourself up 8 times) which lead me to thinking. I always enjoy thinking about how the quote relates to me and what it makes me think. This particular quote just reminded me that no matter how many times you fall down as long as you pick yourself up you are going to be further ahead than before. Well as long as you figure out why you fell down and then try not to make the same mistake again. This quote came at the right time as we are heading into a few big training blocks. I had been a little nervous about how this year was going to pan out. I have had a couple years in the past that have not been, “up to par.” However I have been able to realise that as long as I finish the year thinking that I have done all I can who cares what the outcome is? I have not had a year when I have been able to say I have given it everything I have had, hopefully this year! I am excited and ready to go as the new race season slowly creeps up on us. The running series starts Sunday and just over 9 weeks until our training camp in Arizona. We are looking into Rv’s To take down with us to keep the cost as low as possible and it is going to be a fun way to travel and live down there!

As for training after our time off during the holidays I am fired up and ready to go again. Heading into the holidays I was having a hard time dealing with the fatigue physically and mentally. A little bit of easy OYO training and I am ready to go again. Since we have been back at it workouts have been great, first Track workout was Tuesday just an intro into track with a few 800’s descending. Other than that it has basically been swim, bike, run and work every day. Swims have been solid and working on some technique and getting closer to that perfect technique. Run’s have been smooth and bikes have been fast. All is good, but now to take advantage of my easy day.

We Raised Over 2700 dollars!!!

Yesterday was the second anual Run/walk event for the homeless put on by the NTC. This year me and stevo decided to take the reigns and be the head organizers. We started planning for this a couple months ago. Everyone from athletes to parents helped pitch in and make everything run smooth. We reiceved and awsome amount of sponsors icluding Running Room, Old Victoria Water Company, Hayak Air, Kook FM, Cobs Bakery, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Oak Bay Bikes, Prairie Inn Harriers, Pacific Sport Victoria and CRD. Many thanks to everyone for everything! Money wise we managed to raise over $2700 plus bags and bags full of clothing, blankets etc. As well as raising an awareness for the homeless community. All in all it was awsome! Thoughts for making next years event bigger and better are already cirulating in my head.



As for training I have not made a post in quite a while which is actually a good thing it means that I am more then just busy, and have no extra time at all. Between training alot, work and y beuty sleep I have been swamped. Training however is going great. Working hard and swimming biking and running fast right now. Now with the run walk event over I am going to have a little more time and energy and am ready for a super hard workouts this weak it should be great. Biking everyday this weak along with some awsome swim and bikes!



Well for now I rest and prepare for the week

P.S. even santa made it out to the run/walk.



S2h

Travis Barker Remix Soulja Boy

A little bit of soulja boy mixed with some loud drums by Barker of blink.. A recipe for a good sych up song..or maybe just something different..epic

Epic!!!!

Wow, the only word that comes to mind while thinking about the epic ride that we had today!! So let's start at the beginning. Start the day with speaking to the bosses at running room, who by the way are amazing!!! I was scheduled to work today, but they made it so I was able to train even with late notice of it. Find out just before 9 that Iwas going to be able to complete all the training today. That meant at 9 I had an hour strength session with trevor. That went solid and the 5 km swim after that went alright too. Felt pretty tired from the 4 week build we just had though. Then for the ride...It started at one o clock, ride out to thetis and drop off some run/wlak brochures at the gunner shaw. we stated with 12 and then by the time we reached sooke it was just three, Stevo Brooke and I..We reached sooke and all starting to bonk, so we decided to stop in at the shell gas station for some.."snacks" A bag of cookies, and achocolate bar and a jolt drink each and we figured we were ready to head back. We headed back for the last 50km of our ride and eventually made it back in the dark at 5:30. Big props to brooke who dug soo deep just to get back. The ride ended up being over 4.5 hours and only about 15 mnutes stoppage time. Overall an awsome day even though the legs are a little numb.

The rest of the week consisted of "doing a triathlon a day." I had a swim bike and run every day this week with either stregnth, yoga or core added on and then a little bit of work aswell. Overall a great finish to an awsome 4 week build where I have been able to really push myself. One more day of hard training until monday, day off!!! very much needed....Well now it is bed time...

Lates

Scotty

Excitment in the broadmead hood...

So yesterday a little excitment at work at the running room. Deffinetly an intersting way to start the day. Long story short within my first 45 minutes of my 8 hour shift we had already had the panic button go off and a visit from the police. Wow what an interesting day that was. O well training the last couple days has been solid.

Friday..

Swim in the morning as ussual. A couple hard sets and a time trial to total the volume at 6km. The TT was a 200 from a dive. Ended up going a 2:07.6, which I was satisfied with but not stoked. Next time it will be a 2:05!!! O well, worked hard in the main sets and overall a solid swim. After that an oyo run where everything went well. Only 45 minutes, but everything felt good and I managed to have the right tunes playing at the right time. Follow that with a road ride in the sun with andy. Good chance to get out on my race bike one last time before winter and snow comes around. Follow that with a solid shift at work and then home for bed and rest for the first time that day. You know the saying "no rest for the wicked."

Saturday and sunday..
Some good training done inculding a fun long base run with the boys down at beacon hill and a little coffee after. Also we are just starting to get into the gym for some weight training which should be really cool. A little run/walk for the homeless stuff thrown in there and call it a good weekend.


Now to finish transformers the movie....

Scotty