Getting back on track

The funeral was nice and Elizabeth Farkas Wilson has been laid to rest. It was also nice to see some old faces and talk of old times, to bad our reunions are only at funerals or wedding.

Now time to focus back on training....

So lets see? were did I leave off? ....

Oh Ya! riding my bike on the trainer,  which is sitting in the middle of my living room. Yee Ha!

Still no rec pass,so no swimming. It's only been a month! I won't lose much fitness?

Still to cold to run outside! for me! So no running......When will Winter end!?!?!  ..even though it's been a mild winter with not much snow. Hehehe

Woo Hoo! it's almost Feb and only six weeks until Spring!!! It won't be long before I get the bike out on the road again, and maybe do some running to!

I miss swimming. I hope Joanne get a job soon so she can renew our rec pass! So I can get back into the pool....How will I be able to swim across lake Ontario if I can't practice my swim? ...I guess I'll have to do it the same way that I did my Ironman, without allot of training and being stubborn like a mule! Ya! thats it!!


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I'm bummed!

I just got word my God mothers oldest daughter Elizabeth Wilson Died today! She was only 60 years young.  The funeral will be on Thursday Jan 26.

When my parents emigrated from Hungary to Canada in 1956 they met on route with another couple Teresa and Alex Farkas and became best friends ever since.

When my parents got settled and working steady in the early 60's, bought their first house in North York, a suburb of Toronto, The Farkas's also bought a house around the corner from us just because their friendship was that strong! Both my Brother and I grew up with Liz and Katy, Liz's younger sister. I have great memories playing with Liz and Katy as a kid.

My heartfelt condolences go out to Ed Wilson, Liz's husband and family! ...Dame! this is sad. RIP Elizabeth Wilson (Farkas)  : (

Happy Holidays

Wishing everyone a happy and safe holidays....Merry Christmas.

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Josef's Journey Continues.....

 My posting here will be sporadic until I finish my new journey to swim across lake Ontario
You can follow me on my new web page Josef's journey continues, where I will be posting my weekly adventures and training  from now on until my Lake Ontario swim in Aug 2013 Here ...http://josefsjourneyswimacrosslakeontario.blogspot.com/


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The New Journey Starts.

Hey everyone, my new Journey starts! I will be swimming 52km across lake Ontario in Aug 2013. NO small feat! just lots of swimming! I will need all the help I can get to achieve this journey with your donations for my cause. I've already started swimming more then "less is more" ...My swim is dedicated to Mother who is fighting cancer, so I am also trying to raise up to $10,000 as my net goal to be donated to RVH cancer treatment center in Barrie on the completion of my swim.

Please spread the word and my link to your friends to check out my new web page  http://josefsjourneyswimacrosslakeontario.blogspot.com/  to follow me on my journey and maybe make a donation. Donations can be made either by my donate Pay pal link on my web page, or to me in person when you see me, or just e-mail me at ironjosef@hotmail.com for details how to donate to me direct. Thanks in advance.
 
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Lake Ontario Marathon Swim

I have some good and bad news!

The good news is I am finally going to tell you what my big event is!

The bad news is I had to postpone from doing my event this summer 2012 to the summer of 2013

My challenge is that I will be swimming a marathon swim 52km across Lake Ontario from St Catherine's to Toronto in 2013 I originally wanted to do it this coming summer of 2012 but since found out that there is so much more to organizing this kind of challenge to become a sanctioned swim, with the most difficult part being finding boats and equipment and need to raise funds to meet this challenge....the easy part in all this is the swimming! ;) ...If anyone is interested in sponsoring me or wants to donate to my cause contact me directly at ironjosef@hotmail.com  to find out how you can donate.

You can check out my new web page and follow my journey here...http://josefsjourneyswimacrosslakeontario.blogspot.com/


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First volunteer

I had a good meeting today with my friend Jeff and just hooked my first volunteer for my big event! Jeff is the race director to a few half marathon races in the area including the Barrie Half marathon and the Base Borden Half which I did last month and will be a great asset to my event! Woo Hoo!

This works well for me as he has experience and connections to help me go through the right avenues to find sponsors and donations! as well as local media connection to get my event out to the public. With him on board I shouldn't have problems getting the support I need with more volunteers and getting donation to help me with the event and specially help my charity.

It won't be long before I launch my event!

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Still working out...

I'm still working out details with my event and web page before I release it to the friends and public. I want to make sure I do thing right! :)

I'm looking forward to tomorrow! Tomorrow (Sunday 20Th) is the Ironman Arizona race. It's hard to believe it's been a year since I did IMAZ last year. I wish the best to all who are racing tomorrow and I'll be cheering you all in as I stay glued to the computer watching ironman.com live feed all day! good luck to all.

My training continues though only swimming this week, even though my bike is set up in my living room,( I brought it back in from the garage because it was getting to cold to ride out there, and as you know I hate cold!) But I just can't seem to get motivated to ride it, I hate riding the bike trainer, but if I want to keep my base riding up I'm going to have to do some before I take it down in the basement to make way for Christmas and our Christmas tree which we set up in our living room.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get out and run with the running room club, if I can get up in time? 7am is way to early for me to get up on a Sunday to run at 8am I only plan on a short 5-7k run and I should be back in time to watch the start of IMAZ, thankfully AZ is 3 hours behind us and the race won't start until 10am our time.



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Started new web page for...?

It was a good weekend. Saturday our tri club had a year end social at the Locker room, which is a sports bar and one of our clubs sponsors. There was a big turn out of members and spouses. It almost was a little to crowded with the amount of people, but it was fun to see and talk to everyone about their tri plans for next year, including me where I hinted on my big charity event but didn't disclose any details, hee hee heh....

This weekend I created and started my new web page for my charity event which I will release and post my new web page when I get all the details finished, so hang on!

In the mean time, time to get back to training, swimming today. woo hoo! ;)