This week will be a Total Dive Training Week

This week I'll be putting my Tri training on hold and will be totally training and practicing diving to get ready for my meet on Saturday Jan 31.

I talked to the recreation director at the rec center to ask if she would give me some time on the 3 m board so I can practice and get a dive list going if I'm going to compete in the 3 meter event on Sunday Feb 1. She said she will work something out for me. As a rule no one goes or has been able to dive off the 3 meter board during public swims since it's been put in the pool for fear of injury's and liability's, except for me of course. I feel so privileged.


I'll be working out on the 1 and 3 meter boards practicing every day this week before work to get ready for my competition. My only dilemma is? I may back out of doing the 3meter competition because I just haven't practiced enough on the high board. One week is not really enough time to get ready for any activity for competition let alone a skilled competition like diving. Although I did the same thing 25 years ago in my last competition at the World Master Games after being out of diving for 3-4 years!! .... I will see? I'm a lot older and less flexible with more aches and pains then I was as a 25 year old, and will decide on doing the 3meter after Saturdays 1 meter event.

Here is my dive list I will be working on for both 1 and 3 meters.

1 Meter

Front layout dive.
Front dive 1/2 twist
Inward dive pike, or back dive pike?
Front 1 1/2 pike
Front full somersault 1 twist
Reverse full sommersault 1/2 twist

3 Meter

Front layout dive.
Front dive 1/2 twist
Inward dive pike, or back dive pike?
Front 1 1/2 pike
Front 1 1/2 somersault 1 twist
Reverse 1 1/2 somersault 1/2 twist

The only difference from the 1 and 3 m dive list is the last 2 dives where I will throw in an extra 1/2 somersault.

Wish me luck.

Training totals this week

Week of 18-25 training totals...


Swim 2000m

Run 6km

Diving 1hr

My first dive meet in 25 years

I just registered for my first dive meet in 25 years.

The Snowball Classic Invitation being held in Scarborough Toronto Jan31 -Feb 1. Hosted by Scarborough Diving Club. I talked to the meet manager and everything is a go.

I'll be diving in the 1 and 3 meter event as a Master 50 and over.......eek, gak! ... 50 and over!?!? ...man I'm getting old, I guess the Olympics is out!

This is ironic because the meet is exactly one year to the day that I tore my calf diving last year when I was just starting back at my diving at our new pool when it opened.

I have no expectation at this meet because I have a weak dive list with low degree of difficulty (DD) but I think I'm good enough to put on a good show.

here is my 1 meter dive list I'm planing to do.

Front dive layout

Front dive with a 1/2 twist

Inward dive pike

Front 1 1/2 pike

Front somersault 1 full twist

Reverse somersault with 1/2 twist.

It should be fun! : - )

Training Week Totals Jan 10-17

This weeks training was weak

Swim 2700m

Bike 30min...30km

Run 1:10hr...8 miles

Diving going well.

My Moms Birthday

And for her birthday she got the news from her biopsy of re-occurring positive results of breast cancer. You'll beat this like you have the last 3 times.







Happy birthday mom...... Mom and Melissa.

I'm way behind in posting

To much to do, not enough time!

Here are my weekely totals from 04-10

Swim 2500m

Bike 0000

Run 2:15

Diving is going well. : )

HAPPY NEW YEAR.... It's time to train again.

Well the new year has come and it's time to train again.

I've started a new log that I'll be keeping up this year and will post my data weekly of my training.

So far this year I've run 3 times, biked once and today swam, and it's only day 5......I'm off to a good start. Yay!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas

This morning before opening presents, Chris, me, Melissa, VictoriaSame picture with Joanne in it for equal time. Joanne, Chris, Melissa and Victoria.

My stash of gifts including a carbon bontrager bottle holder for my Trek Bike, and a small bottle of Kaluha in it. Ironman gloves, bontrager seat pack, new bike tube, Mini digital camera, DVD of the latest Stargate SG1 movie, stone pizza pan, My yearly edition of the bathroom reader book and candy. I done good!

Happy Holiday's

Happy 29th Anniversary

Joanne and i got married Dec 15 1979,

The past week

Last week was the usual training grind with swims Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and runs on Tuesday and Thursdays followed with diving for an hour. My runs are getting better, my diving is getting better and I'm losing weight to.

I got a nice surprise in the mail on Tues. Tim Weedman sent me a official Ironman Arizona license plate cover for my car to replace the one that broke off after I drove through a flying sheet of drywall on the hwy. ...Thanks Tim.

Yesterday our family with friends went on our annual x-mass tree hunt to cut our own tree at Drysdales tree farm.

The story went something like this...... ..... ....What a hunt!....I dredged through the bush peering side to side looking for just the right tree, then I snuck up behind and pounced upon the one I thought looked good enough to cut down!...... There was a huge struggle at first, then I finally got the teeth of my saw into its trunk! ...The screems and yells of anguish and hurt, not from the tree? but from my arm getting tired from sawing and burning from fatigue. I finally felled the tree to the call of my T I M B E R!!!......

Once down, there was nothing more the tree could do, but lay there ooozing sap! .......I jumped for joy! I snaged me a good one. Like a great African hunter over his kill, I stood one foot on the main trunk of the tree, and one arm in the air holding the saw that I cut down this perfect specimen of a tree, thumping my chest with my other fist and yelling! "this is the tree to be erected in my house, a superb symbol to celebrate the birth of Christ!" ......

Yes!....... This was a great take down!

There was some struggle to get the tree back to the car, first I had to drag this great specimen at least 1km to the tractor drawn wagon, to take us and the tree back to the main parking lot another 3-4km away, then pay for it, have it tied up with the automatic tree tierupper thingy then carry it another 400 or so meters to the car.

While I strapped the tree onto the roof of my car, the women went to the christmas store to look at all the christmasy things. I then went over to the bon fire and kept warm and drank hot chocolate while they did there shopping thing. Finally, after what seemed hours, the women came out of the store so we could go home and I could set up the tree.....The end!