Miguel swims Lake Ontario

Last weekend the C3 team had its Childrens race weekend.  http://c3online.ca/2010Events/KOS/index.html.  I was there for a 13h volunteer day, helping on the bike course.  I spent a little while teaching transition skills and bike tactics to a few athletes.  Of course the great thing was being able to catch up with old friends – including great guys Marcello.  And of Course Miguel Vadillo (Malva) http://malvaswimlakeontario.typepad.com/my-blog/ who is training and fund raising for a really cool goal:  Swimming the 52km (as the crow flies, not including the the currant goes the other way, so you actually swim farther).
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quick observations

I just finished a 200km hike over 7 days, here are some of my observations from that.  Most of it was on (the Bruce) trails, but every day there ended up being 3-4km of walking alongside a road.

• hiking makes for sore feet, especially 75-80 h of it
• 5 cars honked/ cheered me on
• One of those was a convertible Lambo and the driver through in a few engine revs
• Zero cars tried hitting me/ were threatening
• I saw one trail runner and he was cheerful and chatty
• 3 triathletes refused to acknowledge me (2 running one on bike)
• all groups of cyclists said hello (I kinda thought it would have been the opposite)
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Orange you glad that Julia didn’t say Banana

Evil lent his truck out a few weeks ago and when it came back there were 90 lbs of 3 day old oranges in the back.  That’s around 150 plump juicy, fresh-off-the-tree-they-do-not-taste-like-this-in-Canada oranges.  They are wonderful.  My Dr. had just prescribed to me, of all things, eating oranges.   I have now been eating 4 oranges (at least) a day.  I’m some place in the 1/2 to 1/3 of the way through, but they are starting to go downhill.
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Merry Christmas – Jelly Shed

Happy Holidays.

I hope that everyone is having a great time regardless of your beliefs.

Remember that the spirit is joy and happiness – not stress and debt.  Even if Americans spend more on Christmas gifts than the military costs for the entire year… have FUN.
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Tiger!? Winter Roofing

Like every other clown on the internet, I thought that I would chip (get it ha-ha) in my 2 cents on Tiger Woods situation.  Today I’m almost caught up on things, and got around googling Tiger.  As even my parents have heard about this I’m assuming you have as well.

Down in Florida I’ve ridden past his house a few times, but to clarify, that gives me NO insight what-so-ever.

Anytime something like this comes to light, there are always fake confessions.

What makes this different?
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Saugeen Triathlon Club: Nov 29th Banquet Speaker

Boys aren’t from Venus, don’t try to change that

This past week I have been hanging out with my Dad while my mother has had a chance to enjoy her first ‘care-giver’ break in 16 months.  After our trip to Stratford, we briefly stopped in KW to trick-or-treat with my nice, unpacked Mother and then eventually headed back to Bracebridge.  After 5 days with her granddaughter (what more could a Grammie want?) mom has been entertaining us with stories of little Natalie, and contrasting it to my own youth.
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Q: Nat why no blog updates?

When the races are going well, and training is going well then there is excitement, and I post up blog stories.  When they’re not then you get tweets.  I’ve never before had such a lack luster season, so rather than giving you foaming rants I bite my tongue.  I know that was out of character, sorry to disappoint (though the time could still come).

Training went great through the spring.  ~ a week before St Croix I had my first flat workout of the season, and everything seemed to go into a tail spin from there.

By the time IronMan Canada came around I couldn’t even get the power out on the bike.  A 18% power decrease to be exact, so I focused on being as efficient as possible was ended up being only 3 min slower.  I started the run thinking that I’d have a strong effort from my conservation.
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