This Saturday May 26th I'm getting ready to do my longest training ride of the year,....OK, OK,... ever! Besides my four Ironman's I have done, which the bike portion of the race is 180k I have never ridden this far in training. The most I have ridden in training for all my Ironman races was around 100k.
So where will I be riding? I'll be riding with a few friend around the perimeter of lake Simcoe starting in Barrie all the way around and back. --> Lake Simcoe route and I think we have one support vehicle who will carry extra water and food.
Why? A friend of mine Nathan Brooks is getting ready for a 24hr bike race and needs to get in some long rides, so he set up this ride with him for support and I and glad I can help him out. I don't know if I'll say the same after the ride!? lol
Wish me luck!
:)
Friday, May 25, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
First open water swim
What a weekend! temps in the high 80'sF, it feels like Mid July!
Well I thought since it's feeling like summer why not go down to the lake for a swim.
At first I was going to go for a ride and do 30k easy ride, but when I grabbed my bike the rear tire was flat! and i don't have any spare tubes to change it out. This being a long weekend and a holiday Monday no stores are open, .....so much for my ride?
Well instead I took down my steel raleigh road bike hanging in the garage, filled the tires up and decided to go down to Centennial beach and see if I can swim yet?
As a rule Kempenfelt bay waters, which is part of Lake Simcoe the second biggest lake in Ontario takes until late June to warm up enough to swim, but being a mild winter and warm spring and now with the Hot weather this week I though I would give it a try.
I rode down to the beach and parked my bike along one of the trees at the beach and stripped down to my bathing suit I was wearing and put on my swim goggles from my back pack. I slowly walked into the water which felt cool but nice in this heat, and with no wetsuit on and just my speedo on I waded down to my mid section and dunked down to my shoulders and finally dunked my head!
The water temp was about 50F but on this hot day it felt refreshing! I sat there under the water to my neck to get used to the cold and after about 5 min I started out for my swim along the beach front at about 4 feet of depth so if I got to cold I could stand for safety. I tried to swim head down but the water being so cold gave me brain freeze, the same feeling you get when you eat ice cream to fast! EEK!
I swam for about 200m front crawl lifeguard style with head up and felt good. My body was adjusting but my skin was tingling with pins and needles from the cold water. By the time I turned to swim back I started getting used to the water and was swimming head down back to where I started and had enough and got out because I didn't want to get hypodermic. I then sunned myself on the beach a while to dry of and rode back home.
Who would have thought I would be swimming on the May 2-4 weekend and specially in Kempenfelt bay! I remember once when I was little, 8-9 years old, being up at my cousins cottage on the May 2-4 weekend and swimming there in this kind of hot weather, but it was a smaller lake and not as cold being a smaller shallower lake.
Man if felt good to swim in the lake! I hope the weather keep up and stay warm so I can continue and eventually swim longer in the lake.
:)
Well I thought since it's feeling like summer why not go down to the lake for a swim.
At first I was going to go for a ride and do 30k easy ride, but when I grabbed my bike the rear tire was flat! and i don't have any spare tubes to change it out. This being a long weekend and a holiday Monday no stores are open, .....so much for my ride?
Well instead I took down my steel raleigh road bike hanging in the garage, filled the tires up and decided to go down to Centennial beach and see if I can swim yet?
As a rule Kempenfelt bay waters, which is part of Lake Simcoe the second biggest lake in Ontario takes until late June to warm up enough to swim, but being a mild winter and warm spring and now with the Hot weather this week I though I would give it a try.
I rode down to the beach and parked my bike along one of the trees at the beach and stripped down to my bathing suit I was wearing and put on my swim goggles from my back pack. I slowly walked into the water which felt cool but nice in this heat, and with no wetsuit on and just my speedo on I waded down to my mid section and dunked down to my shoulders and finally dunked my head!
The water temp was about 50F but on this hot day it felt refreshing! I sat there under the water to my neck to get used to the cold and after about 5 min I started out for my swim along the beach front at about 4 feet of depth so if I got to cold I could stand for safety. I tried to swim head down but the water being so cold gave me brain freeze, the same feeling you get when you eat ice cream to fast! EEK!
I swam for about 200m front crawl lifeguard style with head up and felt good. My body was adjusting but my skin was tingling with pins and needles from the cold water. By the time I turned to swim back I started getting used to the water and was swimming head down back to where I started and had enough and got out because I didn't want to get hypodermic. I then sunned myself on the beach a while to dry of and rode back home.
Who would have thought I would be swimming on the May 2-4 weekend and specially in Kempenfelt bay! I remember once when I was little, 8-9 years old, being up at my cousins cottage on the May 2-4 weekend and swimming there in this kind of hot weather, but it was a smaller lake and not as cold being a smaller shallower lake.
Man if felt good to swim in the lake! I hope the weather keep up and stay warm so I can continue and eventually swim longer in the lake.
:)
First ride out to Wasaga
Saturday I rode out to Wasaga beach for the first time this year, I couldn't ask for better weather! Clear blue skies little wind and balmy temps in the 80'sF.
The plan was to do a half iron distance training day, so I got up early, after only 6 hours sleep, remember i don't get home from work until 12 12:30am and don't go to bed until 1am usually. So I set my alarm for 7am, the pool opens for lane swim from 7:15 to 8:15 so i figured I can grab a quick snack and get to the pool by 7:30 to do my 2000m swim.
I got up and looked around the kitchen for something to eat, i saw some mini tarts, one maple flavor and one lemon and downed them and off I went to the pool. I got lucky and there was an empty lane. I jumped in and started to swim....Bammm! 2000m in 35min, done!
I drove home and put my bike gear on and grabbed my bike and was off to Wasaga by 9am. As i was sailing along I'm saying to myself what a great day out! about half way out, not a cloud in the sky except for a X formed by two Jet planes jet stream and hanging over what looked like right over Wasaga beach. so i said to myself X marks the spot! lol
I reached Wasaga beach in 1:20 stopping at the beach front looking around for a few min and eating my stroopwaffles washing it down with the rest of my energy drink for the ride back.
The ride back was still smooth sailing with clear blue skies and a little wind, more like a breeze, but alas, the ride home was still against the wind, making my ride a little more difficult! But I still keep my pace up even with my hip hurting.
For most of the ride, Ok actually from the start of the ride my hip was hurting, I've been dealing with sciatica pain for over 5 months now and only recently have gone to a chiropractor to get it fixed, albeit, I've only had 3 sessions with the chiropractor, my hip and hamstring have been getting better, but it still hurts.
I reach my home and finished in a time of 2:50 over 85km, averaging 30kph, I didn't do a full 90 k because that is all the road I had.? lol
In the end I had lots of energy and felt strong except for my hip hurting from my sciatica, so I decided I wasn't going to run any of the 7k loops I had planned to run for the 21k half distance, to do a full half ironman training day. Oh well! I still had a good training day!
:)
The plan was to do a half iron distance training day, so I got up early, after only 6 hours sleep, remember i don't get home from work until 12 12:30am and don't go to bed until 1am usually. So I set my alarm for 7am, the pool opens for lane swim from 7:15 to 8:15 so i figured I can grab a quick snack and get to the pool by 7:30 to do my 2000m swim.
I got up and looked around the kitchen for something to eat, i saw some mini tarts, one maple flavor and one lemon and downed them and off I went to the pool. I got lucky and there was an empty lane. I jumped in and started to swim....Bammm! 2000m in 35min, done!
I drove home and put my bike gear on and grabbed my bike and was off to Wasaga by 9am. As i was sailing along I'm saying to myself what a great day out! about half way out, not a cloud in the sky except for a X formed by two Jet planes jet stream and hanging over what looked like right over Wasaga beach. so i said to myself X marks the spot! lol
I reached Wasaga beach in 1:20 stopping at the beach front looking around for a few min and eating my stroopwaffles washing it down with the rest of my energy drink for the ride back.
The ride back was still smooth sailing with clear blue skies and a little wind, more like a breeze, but alas, the ride home was still against the wind, making my ride a little more difficult! But I still keep my pace up even with my hip hurting.
For most of the ride, Ok actually from the start of the ride my hip was hurting, I've been dealing with sciatica pain for over 5 months now and only recently have gone to a chiropractor to get it fixed, albeit, I've only had 3 sessions with the chiropractor, my hip and hamstring have been getting better, but it still hurts.
I reach my home and finished in a time of 2:50 over 85km, averaging 30kph, I didn't do a full 90 k because that is all the road I had.? lol
In the end I had lots of energy and felt strong except for my hip hurting from my sciatica, so I decided I wasn't going to run any of the 7k loops I had planned to run for the 21k half distance, to do a full half ironman training day. Oh well! I still had a good training day!
:)
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