Yup...me back...nah nah nah nah nah nah nah...let's see who cares...

Kids taking over my life...but in a good way! Maybe I'll try to resurrect this blog...change it to SwimDad or something...

...stand by...honest!

Bill

Yeah yeah...been a long time...just a quick update to say that things are going well...currently running, spinning, and weights 3x/week each. The weight is fluctuating around 170 lbs which is intersting since my last Ironman race (Florida) was 2001 and I was 169 the morning of the race. Now that the snow is here I will be adding 2-3 XC-ski workouts to the schedule. My plan is to not swim until XC-ski season is finished somewhere near the end of March. However, I will try and get on the VASA trainer 2-3x/week also.

I'll try to be a little more diligent about updating...just in case anyone actually reads this.

WW

Well all is well in my tri-world for now. I actually won the Masters division (due to fewer than normal numbers they combined the 40-44 and 45-49 for award purposes) at the "Give-it-a-Tri" event in Cobourg on the weekend...even losing 3 minutes with a thrown and tangled chain on the only uphill on the bike course. I know it helped me that the swim MUST have been long, but generally I felt ok, even though I have not done any intensity whatsoever. I suspect the next one on the list will be the same distance in Wasaga Beach 4 weeks from now...still enjoying the training!

I oftern wonder what kind of training is possible in my "now life" as a father, husband, and working guy vs. what was possible in chiropractic college. At that time I would get up at 4:45 am to be on the Computrainer at 5 am so I could eat and get to school by 7:30 am. I would then be in class until about 11, swim and eat lunch intil 1, then run after class. I would then "go long" on the weekends along with studying.



Perhaps if I was as time-efficient now as I was then, interesting levels of fitness become possible? I'll explore this further soon...



They just announced IronMan Muskoka 70.3 for September 2008...sign-up begins tomorrow morning...hmmmm...it whets the appetite but dunno if I'm ready for that in a year's time...I already made the mistake of trying to squeeze in a full IM (Florida) on only 7 months training.

Well...here goes nothing...signed up for a mini-triathlon this weekend...400mS/10kmB/2.5kmR. My wife's race will be twice that distance and my daughter's event will be half my distance. But I hammered my back on Saturday saving my 2 year-old son from a fall so hopefully I'll be "on-line" by then...as on-line as I can be going into this thing.

...wish me luck...gonna need it!

Well...so far so good...I'm the lightest I've been since IMF in 2001...but still feel like I slog in all three sports. At least I'm out there in all three though! There is a small chance the coming out party will be at the Cobourg Try a Tri in a couple of weeks...just getting the feet wet again...I doubt I'll fit into my old T1 wetsuit by then, but hope to by early September when I plan to do the Wasaga Beach triathlon. My wife (the REAL competitor) is scraping the rust off of her fitness also after 2 kids...warning: do not get in her way in a race...at least not a few years ago...we'll see how she reacts if she also does the Wasaga race.

I found a sweet bike for my daughter to race her KoS races in...she was on a 12" wheel bike but now she is on an Argon D18 24" wheel bike and she can really move on that one...she says she is now looking forward to the next race...we'll see...