Well I couldn't possibly imagine begin all that things I've experienced over the past year, here is a (fairly) quick recap of the past year:

August 26th 2006: In final preparations for my second Half-Ironman (Big Kahuna), I crashed my bike quite spectacularly on our team practice Triathlon. After a few hours waiting in the hospital, I found out I'd fractured my arm and would not be able to do my event ...

With Ironman Canada just a week away, I am now into the most important phase of training, known as "Taper". This is the time when the workouts are drastically scaled down to a minimum to allow the body to finally recover and strengthen. This has been fairly restful week, no early morning or late nights but just long days with much to get ...

Swimming has been my weakest of the three and after a disappointing swim at Vineman I wanted rebuild my confidence with one last big open water swim in before Ironman. Having just decided to do the Donner Lake Swim, at around 3pm yesterday, I started the long drive up to Donner lake just before 9pm, I arrived in Truckee just gone midnight. Having ...

Today on the training schedule was something called a "Mental Toughness Ride", this was suppose to be a on your own self supported ride without the team. After what could be described as comedy of mishaps yesterday I ended up getting home very late, with a mere 4 hours of sleep I set out early to start my ride. However instead of just doing ...

This was it, billed as one of the toughest training days of the year, the 9 hour workout! Last year the team had suffered as it was during a heat wave, so the stories had certainly made me nervous, but it also made me go in prepared with lots of fluid to keep me hydrated. Our starting point was Edgewood and Canada, that ...

For a Ironman race simulation we were to "race" Vineman tired. There was no taper, in fact the opposite today we rode the 50 miles of tomorrow's bike course to be properly worn down for the event. During the ride I worked hard at keeping my heart low while keeping my pace up, as this course is not too hilly it wasn't that hard to do. It was also a fairly hot day so staying ...

Work has been eating up more and more of my free time, that said I was able to get in a good swim practice this week and ride on Saturday. The Saturday ride was not as long as I had planned but still had a decent amount of climbing, tackling La Honda (Highway 84) to reach Skyline.

2hours 14mins
4,628 Feet of Climbing...

A holiday and great chance for the team to meet-up for a ride on a hot day. We started out the ride at Foothill and Homestead and headed up towards Steven's Creek reservoir. The goal was to climb up Montobello Road, I had been past the turning for the road countless times but never been up their before, but today was the day. It ...

A day of misdirection, I never get last when I know where I am going :-) However I'm not to familiar with the far off land known locally as the "East Bay". Getting to the ride start was my first first challenge of the day, the map I had printed off wasn't entirely clear on the street name where the final turn was not ...

The Ironteam meet at 8am at Edgewood and Canada Rd, to start out the 72 mile ride generally flat ride with a medium grade. We started off heading north on Canada Rd, continuing past 92 on to Skyline which passes by Sawyer Camp, and then turn on Crystal Spring Rd, which has a great downhill as you start into it. The route loop ...