Close call on my drive home.

I almost hit a deer!!...

On my way home from work last night driving along hwy 27 northbound, which is a 2 lane county hwy, on route to pick up the major 400 hwy North which takes me home up to Barrie. I had my cruise control on, set for 90km as usual along this stretch of hwy 27. It's dark out as it was overcast and drizzling rain. There is no one else on the road except for a set of car lights about a 1km behind me driving the same route. It's pitch black out and with no on coming traffic made it seem darker. All I see ahead of me is my car light shining out onto the road ahead of me as I drive and nothing beyond but blackness.

As I was driving along, out of the pitch dark night walks a buck deer right in front of me, just at the distance where my head light crest with the darkness, shining on the road about 30 -40 feet in front of my car. I instinctively slam on my brakes to avoid hitting it. At the same time I'm skidding I pull the wheel a little to the right to avoid hitting him directly. And at the same time I'm skidding to a stop I'm saying to myself, ( Deer this is your lucky day! there is no way I'll be hitting you!! )

I come to a full stop quickly. I was amazed how my car gripped the road because of the slick road from the drizzle rain coming down. I thought I might have to veer into the ditch to avoid impact with the deer, but my new red cobalt handled and stopped very nicely, gripping the wet road skidding and coming to a quick stop right in front of him with him standing only 5 feet in front of my car when I stopped.

He then meanders on across the hwy looking at my car and me as I roll forward from my full stop to drive around him and his back side. I then started laughing to myself as I drove off because the damn deer as he was crossing the road looking at my car didn't seem fazed in the least! and just took his time walking across the road like he knew he wouldn't be hit.

All I can say is that Damn deer is lucky I was driving. :)

Perfect weather today, good ride!

So much for weather reports!?!

WTF!! This morning was perfect! Sunny, little wind and not a cloud in the sky! So I got on my horse ( bike) and rode while I could!! yeeee haaaa! I had a great ride today, although it was a little cool for me at 10C. but it warmed up to 15C by the time I finished my ride.

After my ride I did a short 1.2k brick run. To bad the weather won't stay like this longer then today, as they are calling for cooler temps With some rain the rest of the week, but I took advantage of it while I could. :)

Here is a youtube clip from Amanda Lovato of some of the "what's going on's" of the underwear run in Kona today, too funny! check it out. lol...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdqDY4EdJ-8

and one with Amanda Lovato with Borat!! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4DCp84-LI


:)

Too Windy to train.

I was off to a good start this week running 5k both Monday and Tuesday, but today training was halted because of high winds, and I mean HIGH WINDS, Gusts up to 90k. Just walking to my car in my driveway this morning was difficult and I was being blown over, so needless to say I wasn't biking today.

The weather outlook isn't very favorable in the near future with more rain and windy days, I might be able to get in one bike ride this week and hopefully get in two more runs.

This weekend is Thanksgiving weekend! and I give thanks that the Kona world championships are on Saturday which I will be logging on http://ironman.com/ to watch live on line all day starting around 11:00 am, WooT.

Also Saturday I will be putting a new carpet down that I bought for the basement bedroom. The one I had put down was old and smelly that we have been using in the basement for years and when our cat was sick before dieing, she had peed all around it, so I lifted it and threw it out.

The carpet I bought is a remnant carpet ( end of the roll carpet ) of 12 x 24 that I picked up cheap at a local flooring and carpet store. My basement bedroom is only 19 x 10 1/2 so there will be a lot of extra carpet left over that I can use as runners up the basement stairs or something? My plan is gluing the carpet down to the concrete floor in the bedroom, as being the cheapest way of installing it. Then when that's done, I will continue on with putting up more new walls in the next faze of my basement Reno, ( the rec room ). The work never end!

:)

New Old Reno Project

I started up my next reno project down in the basement with starting on the recreation room area. I won't complete this project this year as I don't have the money to finish it. I'm just using up the rest of my lumber to build up my walls. Then when I get some money I'll finish it up. The first step is to seal the floor Victoria helped out by painting the floor with the sealer.


I did a couple of runs over the weekend in between the rain drops, I took a few pictures of the nice rainbow after one of our down pours.

Weekly totals.......

Run...15k

Bike...30km

Swim...000

I'm in for Ironman Florida 70.3

I'm in for Ironman Florida 70.3  Wooo! Hoooo!

I registered this morning.  Now I have something to motivate me over the winter to train.  But most of my winter will be base work and keeping my fitness up. And cross training with my diving. 

I think I'll have to eat the cost of getting a single rec pass so I can go to the rec center to swim and dive and use the fitness room for treadmill work and weights. I can't afford it, but it's got to be done.

Another thing I need to do is get passports for all of us to travel to the States. We used to be able to cross the border with just birth certificates and drivers license, but they changed the rules now and Canadians now need a passport to cross the border to the states. 

Oh and I ran today. i did another slow 5km in 30:07  Feet were fine, my knee was hurting/ pinching.

The weather has gotten cold fast. The day time temps are in the teens now, and it has been raining off and on the last three days including today, so i haven't ridden and when I was ready to run it was raining so I didn't run. I don't like training in cold or in wet, I specially don't when it's both cold and wet! At least I'm getting a little recovery time for my knee. It still hurts and even pinches at times when I walk, but I keep putting off seeing the doctor hoping it will get better. Anyway I'll try to run tomorrow.

I'm thinking I want to enter Ironman 70.3 Florida Disney race for May. The registration rates goes up after tomorrow the 30Th, but it's to soon to know if I can afford to go to Florida, but if I register before tomorrow night I can save $50 and with the race 8 months away I should be able to save up enough to go? depending on if my wife finds a job or not!? Plus I want to go down with my kids again as it was fun last time when I went in 2008. What to do? What to do?

:)

31:20

31:20.....Another slow run today. My legs felt lethargic and my time shows they were. I guess my legs were tired from yesterdays bike ride, we did have a lot of hills on our bike yesterday. ;)

After my run, I spent the afternoon cooking up a storm!! ..Yes!! Can you Smelllllll, What the Josef is cooking!! ...... I cooked up fifteen chicken breasts and about 40 Pork Schnitzels that I bag and freeze for dinners thoughout the week when I don't have time to cook.

Honey Garlic chicken breasts, and Pork schnitzel. Mmmmmmmm

Weekly Totals...

Swim...000

Bike... 105km

Run...15km

:)

Good ride today.

I had a good ride today with my group. The group ride went 60km out and about the greater Barrie area. I rode 75km including riding to the meeting place and back. The rain didn't come and we actually had some sunshine which make the ride nice, but it was still a little on the cool side at 17-18C

Not much else going on. NO lives to save! NO extra training for any up coming meets. Just base training and trying to get my weight down as I pick up my running now...... Oh yes! I forgot, I didn't enter the Scotia Bank Waterfront Marathon which is tomorrow. I'm not ready for it with my run being so slow. I'll have to wait to do my marathon racing for another time, for now I'll gradually increase my run speed and distance over time, so I don't re injure my heel.


:)

Felt lazy....But!!

I vacuumed the house, Does that count as cross training? lol

No training today. I felt lazy today so i didn't ride. I felt guilty for not going out on a bike ride today, because the weather looked great this morning! It was nice and sunny, but the temperature was coolish at around 15C

Tomorrows plan is a group ride. The weather report is calling for rain in the afternoon. We plan to leave around 9:30am hopefully the rain will hold off until after we finish our ride.


:)

29:20 Run

29:20 is what I ran my 5k in today. It's a little better then last time. :)

When I got home last night after work I found this little guy in my house hopping across my front foyer. How this tree frog got into my house , I don't know? I caught him and let him back outside where he belonged after taking a few pictures.

While I was trying to catch him he jumped up on the door.

:)