As you can see on the side of the blog is a new movie I scripted for a website I found "Extra Normal Text a movie "where you can make your own movies. Pretty cool I think and lots of fun! So I made a comic version of my less is more training parity of my less is more mentality. I think it is funny. Joanne couldn't hold in the laughter when she saw it. what do you think?
Yesterday I had to be Joe plumber again and missed my training day. My brother called me in the morning to see if I could come over to his place before I went to work to install some water stop valves under the vanity sink he is ripping out. My brother is remodeling his main floor washroom, so my brother took a few days off work so he can rip and gut out his main floor washroom so he can tile the floor, and he needed me to take the sink and vanity out and put in stop valves on the hot and cold water lines under the sink as there were none there. The job of tiling and remodeling would take a few days and he couldn't have his main water line turned off for that long. So I went to help him instead of going to my planned LA Fitness training.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Joanne's Birthday today.
Happy Birthday Joanne. I hope you have a great day. I love you. :)
I don't see Joanne during the week so i left her some flowers and truffles on the kitchen table for her to see first thing in the morning and I made her a lunch of fresh salad and a couple of slices of spinach pizza and a couple of slices of cheese cake i bought to take to work.
I had another good workout at LA Fitness today. I started with weights for about 20 min then I hit the treadmill for some interval running for 45 min and went down to the pool for a 20 min swim. I'm beat!
I'm liking this fitness center, It's not very busy at the time I'm there, maybe 50-75 people, but the place is so big and has so many cardio and weight machines the place looks empty. And the pool!! I'm the only one using the pool, It's mine, all mine I'll tell you, mine! mine! mine!Boowahaha!!
:)
I don't see Joanne during the week so i left her some flowers and truffles on the kitchen table for her to see first thing in the morning and I made her a lunch of fresh salad and a couple of slices of spinach pizza and a couple of slices of cheese cake i bought to take to work.
I had another good workout at LA Fitness today. I started with weights for about 20 min then I hit the treadmill for some interval running for 45 min and went down to the pool for a 20 min swim. I'm beat!
I'm liking this fitness center, It's not very busy at the time I'm there, maybe 50-75 people, but the place is so big and has so many cardio and weight machines the place looks empty. And the pool!! I'm the only one using the pool, It's mine, all mine I'll tell you, mine! mine! mine!Boowahaha!!
:)
Perfect Pool
I was off work Monday and Tuesday so I haven't had a chance to do any training at La Fitness. As you know La Fitness is in Brampton where I work.
Today I went to work so I went to La Fitness first. I ran the treadmill for 45 min and then I dreaded going down to the pool. Well, to my surprise I jumped in, the almost jumped back out!! Brrrrrr! it was cool!! Then I thought? Yeah! I had some influence in getting the pool temperature brought down. I had a good swim, albeit doing a 1000m strait set, I was easily tired since I haven't done any hard swimming in months. Woo Hoo!
After my swim as I was leaving, I stopped at the front counter and told the receptionist the pool was perfect! She then told me after I said the pool was to warm on Friday they checked it out and found the pool temp was 90F and re-adjusted it down to 82F-84F ....YESSSS! Perfect for swim training! :)
:)
Today I went to work so I went to La Fitness first. I ran the treadmill for 45 min and then I dreaded going down to the pool. Well, to my surprise I jumped in, the almost jumped back out!! Brrrrrr! it was cool!! Then I thought? Yeah! I had some influence in getting the pool temperature brought down. I had a good swim, albeit doing a 1000m strait set, I was easily tired since I haven't done any hard swimming in months. Woo Hoo!
After my swim as I was leaving, I stopped at the front counter and told the receptionist the pool was perfect! She then told me after I said the pool was to warm on Friday they checked it out and found the pool temp was 90F and re-adjusted it down to 82F-84F ....YESSSS! Perfect for swim training! :)
:)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I'M IN!
Arizona Ironman came and went. I had a fun time watching the on line video coverage on Ironman.com Sunday, which BTW was really good this time covering the pros while out on the course for their race, and later the age groupers. And to all my friends who were racing, I like to say congrats to you all who finished, you are all Ironman!
Monday morning I was eager to get on line to sign up for next years race. Registration wasn't being held until 11am PT so I had to wait until 2pm to sign up. At 1:50pm I got on line and logged on to my active account and kept hitting refresh. Then BAM! I'm on the registration page, woo hoo, most of my fields where already filled as I am Active.com member and my info was already imputed from my previous races, so I just had to fill in a few fields including my credit card field and submit! Soon as I filled all required fields I hit submit and ...WTF! I got a error on submitting?? Doh! I didn't fill in my mailing address field. I resubmit and...WTF! I got another error, invalid credit card? I go back and realize I can't have spaces with the credit card number, so I re-input with no spaces and submit and....BAM! I'M IN!! I'm in the Ford Ironman Arizona 2010 Race.
Now for the hard part! The training. Wooooooo!
:)
Monday morning I was eager to get on line to sign up for next years race. Registration wasn't being held until 11am PT so I had to wait until 2pm to sign up. At 1:50pm I got on line and logged on to my active account and kept hitting refresh. Then BAM! I'm on the registration page, woo hoo, most of my fields where already filled as I am Active.com member and my info was already imputed from my previous races, so I just had to fill in a few fields including my credit card field and submit! Soon as I filled all required fields I hit submit and ...WTF! I got a error on submitting?? Doh! I didn't fill in my mailing address field. I resubmit and...WTF! I got another error, invalid credit card? I go back and realize I can't have spaces with the credit card number, so I re-input with no spaces and submit and....BAM! I'M IN!! I'm in the Ford Ironman Arizona 2010 Race.
Now for the hard part! The training. Wooooooo!
:)
Friday, November 20, 2009
To sore to swim.
I woke up this morning with sore muscles. I guess I over did my weights yesterday, but I don't mind the soreness, as it's a good soreness. My traps, Deltoids, triceps, biceps and pecs are all to sore for me to work out, so I bagged my planned swim workout for today and didn't go to LA Fitness before work. I could have ran today, it was nice enough outside to go for a run but tomorrow is suppose to be nicer, so I'm planning another 7.5km run and maybe some biking in the afternoon if it gets warm enough. Then tomorrow night I'm off to my Brothers in Orangeville for his birthday. Actually his birthday is today, So happy birthday Mike!
:)
:)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
First day at LA Fitness
I got up this morning, started wondering around the house, looked at my watch, watched some TV, waiting, waiting, ate some breakfast, looked at my watch, watched more TV, looked outside, looked at my watch, sat and watched more TV, looked at my watch and Finally! time to go to LA Fitness and work!!
I left my house at 1pm knowing it takes me an hour to get to the fitness center by 2pm for a easy workout for an hour or so until I had to leave to go across the street and down the block to work.
When I got there I asked if I could take some pictures inside so I can show Joanne and post on my blog, but I was denied. So I only took a picture of the building from the outside as I went back to my car to put my camera away. I then went back inside to change.
After changing I wondered around the main floor where all the weight machines were checking them out. There are so many and all for specific muscle groups. I choose to work on upper body and core today and pushed a few hundred pounds around doing bench press shoulder press, lat pulls and crunches. After 20 min I went upstairs to the treadmills, I picked out a mill. In front are TV to watch as I run or I can watch the people down below doing weights as the mills are placed in front of the balcony rails over looking the whole lower floor to the entrance.
I only ran 1 mile but was really impressed with the treadmill. It was called a Matrix and running on it was like really running on the road. There was no bounce to it and it was so smooth. It actually felt like your pushing yourself forward to run, or like there is resistance on your run, like running on a uphill grade. I kept checking and turning the incline switch down to make sure I was running level, and I was. It really gave me a good workout as I ran at a 5.5 mph pace bringing my HR up to 170
After my run I went to the pool and did some laps. I jumped in and the pool is like a sauna, wtf! I can't swim in this heat! I did a few lengths and I can feel the heat sap my strength and spike my HR. Plus the fact I was so out of shape swimming, but with the heat of the pool I surely felt like I was dragging. I ended up doing 500m before calling it quits. When I went to go get changed and I couldn't stop sweating to get my cloths on.
After I changed I went out to the front desk and asked if something can be done with the temp to the pool? The lady said it is usually maintained at a temp of 84-86F I said WHAT! that's not good to swim in, it should be cooler and no higher then 82F max. The lady then went on to tell me that they keep it warmer because the aqua fit class was complaining it was to cold. I side then maybe if the aqua class worked harder they wouldn't be cold. I said I swim long and with the pool so warm I would dehydrate in 5Min's of swimming, which I did today! I was still sweating bullets standing there talking with her and even showed her my soaking shirt. She said she will check the temp to make sure it's within there limits. I asked if she could maintain the limits to the low end of there limits..........Looks like I will have to carry a water bottle in the pool with me.
Then I went off to work, which took me 2 mins to get to. :)
:)
I left my house at 1pm knowing it takes me an hour to get to the fitness center by 2pm for a easy workout for an hour or so until I had to leave to go across the street and down the block to work.
When I got there I asked if I could take some pictures inside so I can show Joanne and post on my blog, but I was denied. So I only took a picture of the building from the outside as I went back to my car to put my camera away. I then went back inside to change.
After changing I wondered around the main floor where all the weight machines were checking them out. There are so many and all for specific muscle groups. I choose to work on upper body and core today and pushed a few hundred pounds around doing bench press shoulder press, lat pulls and crunches. After 20 min I went upstairs to the treadmills, I picked out a mill. In front are TV to watch as I run or I can watch the people down below doing weights as the mills are placed in front of the balcony rails over looking the whole lower floor to the entrance.
I only ran 1 mile but was really impressed with the treadmill. It was called a Matrix and running on it was like really running on the road. There was no bounce to it and it was so smooth. It actually felt like your pushing yourself forward to run, or like there is resistance on your run, like running on a uphill grade. I kept checking and turning the incline switch down to make sure I was running level, and I was. It really gave me a good workout as I ran at a 5.5 mph pace bringing my HR up to 170
After my run I went to the pool and did some laps. I jumped in and the pool is like a sauna, wtf! I can't swim in this heat! I did a few lengths and I can feel the heat sap my strength and spike my HR. Plus the fact I was so out of shape swimming, but with the heat of the pool I surely felt like I was dragging. I ended up doing 500m before calling it quits. When I went to go get changed and I couldn't stop sweating to get my cloths on.
After I changed I went out to the front desk and asked if something can be done with the temp to the pool? The lady said it is usually maintained at a temp of 84-86F I said WHAT! that's not good to swim in, it should be cooler and no higher then 82F max. The lady then went on to tell me that they keep it warmer because the aqua fit class was complaining it was to cold. I side then maybe if the aqua class worked harder they wouldn't be cold. I said I swim long and with the pool so warm I would dehydrate in 5Min's of swimming, which I did today! I was still sweating bullets standing there talking with her and even showed her my soaking shirt. She said she will check the temp to make sure it's within there limits. I asked if she could maintain the limits to the low end of there limits..........Looks like I will have to carry a water bottle in the pool with me.
Then I went off to work, which took me 2 mins to get to. :)
:)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
New Member
Today was another perfect day, I hope all winter stays like this, but it won't.
I stretched out my run today and did 7.5 km today. The first 5 I did in 30min ending at my house, then took a min to stretch out my calf and quads and went back out for another 2.5 out and back. Total time of 44:53. I had some lower back pain the whole way, but like I said until I lose some weight and do more core work it will happen.
Well I took the plunge and bought myself a membership, but not with the rec centre. 2 blocks from my work there is a LA Fitness that opened earlier this year. So today I decided to go in and check it out and see how much a membership would cost. I walk in and the first thing I see through a glass window is a 25m 4 lane lap pool to the left of the entrance. I asked at the front desk for some help and prices and before you know it I signed up. This place has everything! It's huge, it has two floors with the second floor filled with all the cardio stuff like treadmills, bikes, elliptical thingy's you name it they have it and lots of it! the main floor has all the weight training stuff like free weight's and machines, pull weights etc! there is a gym for Basket ball, fitness rooms for yoga, palates or dance class's. The pool is nice, like I said, it's a 4 lane 25m pool perfect for my swim training over the winter, and of course a nice sauna. All this for $29. a month! which works out to a lot less then the rec center which has a lot less to offer and $200 more a year.
This is so great being so close to my work. I will now be able to do all my training for my up coming Ironmans including swimming, Yeah! So it looks like I will be leaving work early every day from now on! Wooo!
But you are asking what about my Diving? Well I'll tell you I only dove twice a week last year, usually Tues, and Thurs, So seeing as how much a saving I'm getting with the new membership at LA Fitness i can still go to the rec center pool for diving and pay as I go, only costing me $5 a pop.
Today's Menu....
Breakfast, bacon, eggs, toast and a yogurt....Lunch, a ham and bologna cheeze wrap......Dinner, vegetable beef soup, a beef borito and a mixed salad, and for my snack another Ham and bologna cheeze wrap.
:)
I stretched out my run today and did 7.5 km today. The first 5 I did in 30min ending at my house, then took a min to stretch out my calf and quads and went back out for another 2.5 out and back. Total time of 44:53. I had some lower back pain the whole way, but like I said until I lose some weight and do more core work it will happen.
Well I took the plunge and bought myself a membership, but not with the rec centre. 2 blocks from my work there is a LA Fitness that opened earlier this year. So today I decided to go in and check it out and see how much a membership would cost. I walk in and the first thing I see through a glass window is a 25m 4 lane lap pool to the left of the entrance. I asked at the front desk for some help and prices and before you know it I signed up. This place has everything! It's huge, it has two floors with the second floor filled with all the cardio stuff like treadmills, bikes, elliptical thingy's you name it they have it and lots of it! the main floor has all the weight training stuff like free weight's and machines, pull weights etc! there is a gym for Basket ball, fitness rooms for yoga, palates or dance class's. The pool is nice, like I said, it's a 4 lane 25m pool perfect for my swim training over the winter, and of course a nice sauna. All this for $29. a month! which works out to a lot less then the rec center which has a lot less to offer and $200 more a year.
This is so great being so close to my work. I will now be able to do all my training for my up coming Ironmans including swimming, Yeah! So it looks like I will be leaving work early every day from now on! Wooo!
But you are asking what about my Diving? Well I'll tell you I only dove twice a week last year, usually Tues, and Thurs, So seeing as how much a saving I'm getting with the new membership at LA Fitness i can still go to the rec center pool for diving and pay as I go, only costing me $5 a pop.
Today's Menu....
Breakfast, bacon, eggs, toast and a yogurt....Lunch, a ham and bologna cheeze wrap......Dinner, vegetable beef soup, a beef borito and a mixed salad, and for my snack another Ham and bologna cheeze wrap.
:)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The weather has been great, another sunny warm ( for November) day with the temp hovering around 13C. I got outside for another run yesterday. woo! Today is looking just as good but a little cooler, to cool for me to ride outside, although I would ride if I have the proper clothing for riding in cool weather, but I don't :( ....I could ride the trainer today? but I'm feeling lazy, so instead I'm not doing any training today. :)
Ironman Arizona is just around the corner. This Sunday a few of my friends are racing IMAZ and I'd like to wish them all luck. I hope they all meet or exceed their personal goals and have a great time and race. I'm very excited for them all and wish I could be there in person to take in the excitement, I'll just have to wait until next year when I race there.
So To Karen and Steve Anderson, Valerie Rottmon, Tim Weedman, Jackie Riley, MikeVas, William Vaz, and everyone else Safe travels and good luck race day.
ON the Menu today. For breakfast, yogurt. For lunch a hamburger, For dinner, Vegetable beef soup, left over ribs and garlic mashed potato's and a mixed Salad.
:)
Ironman Arizona is just around the corner. This Sunday a few of my friends are racing IMAZ and I'd like to wish them all luck. I hope they all meet or exceed their personal goals and have a great time and race. I'm very excited for them all and wish I could be there in person to take in the excitement, I'll just have to wait until next year when I race there.
So To Karen and Steve Anderson, Valerie Rottmon, Tim Weedman, Jackie Riley, MikeVas, William Vaz, and everyone else Safe travels and good luck race day.
ON the Menu today. For breakfast, yogurt. For lunch a hamburger, For dinner, Vegetable beef soup, left over ribs and garlic mashed potato's and a mixed Salad.
:)
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Another Nice November Day
Zoe was looking to comfortable on her new favorite spot to sleep, Joannes Teddy bear in our bedroom.
Today's Menu.... For breackfast, bacon and eggs and toast, nothing for lunch. Ribs and mashed potato's for dinner, no salad as I was to full from the ribs. Burrrrp! :) Total Cals for today 1500, topped up with a few beers to put me over 2000Cals for today. But I burned 1500 Cals with todays training, so I'm good. :)
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Today I spent most of the day cooking. I baked up some pork ribs in the oven to BBQ them for dinner tonight. I also made a big pot of Beef Vegetable soup to freeze in containers for pre made dinners that I can take to work. After that I went out for a ride and run. When i got back form my run I fired up the BBQ and put the ribs on. I boiled up some potato's and make garlic mashed potato's for a side. Mmmm.
Today's rib fest! Mmmmmmmm! The 2 burgers on the side are veggie burgers for Victoria. She won't eat meat.? 
Training Totals.......
Swim 0
Bike 3 hours
Run 15 km
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Another Great November Day!
To start out with, the Foster Grant Ironman 70.3 world championships were on Ironman.com . So after a few short hours of sleep after getting home from work last night and watching some of the programs on TV that I PVR'd until 3am, I got up just as the first of the pro swimmers were coming out of the water. Yes I missed the start of the race, but I stayed with it until the pros finished! It was a good broadcast today. I don't understand why they can't do all the broadcast like today's, following the pros on there bike and run with the commentary?? Any way it was good.
After I watched the pro men and woman come in off the swim, I went to my moms and installed her new toilet. took me a total of 15 min to do. After that I went back home to catch some splits of my friends doing the race. Damn! still no splits after the swim? I then went out for my bike ride. When I got back from my bike ride and showered I check out on all my friends. By this time they had all finished, so I got all there splits.
Willem who is in the men 65_69 age group and from the Netherlands did great as usual with a 44:04 swim 2:47 bike and 2:28 run for a total fo 6:11:58! coming in 19 in his AG! Great racing Iron Machine! as I call him as he has done over 30 Ironmans and countless half Ironmans!
Fanny from Montreal Quebec who is in the 30 - 34 AG had and awesome race with a 35:12 swim, 2:34:27 bike, and a 1:43:47 run to finish with 4:58:46 ! coming in 45Th in her AG. Great job Fanny!
Louise who is in the women 65-69 AG and is friend and a neighbour of mine living in the next town just north of Barrie, had a great race coming in first in her AG with a swim of 42: 02, 2:29:30 bike and a 2:17:05 run for a finish of 5:38. Awesome job Louise!
Dave Who is Louise's husband and is in the 70- 74 Ag came in 3rd in his AG with a swim of 42:46, 2:33:13 bike and a 2:26:38 run to finish in 5:52:13! I think he was drafting off of Louise!;) Great job Dave!
I watched the rest of the broadcast to the end, then fired up the BBQ and cooked some Penguin steaks for dinner. The rest of the evening I will chill, go for a hot tub and have a few beers. :)
Congrats to all the racers!!
Today menu....
Breakfast, the usual, bacon and eggs with toast and strawberry jam, Lunch nothing, Dinner, one penguin steak and probably a few beers tonight. 3000 total Cal's if you include the beers! :)
:)
After I watched the pro men and woman come in off the swim, I went to my moms and installed her new toilet. took me a total of 15 min to do. After that I went back home to catch some splits of my friends doing the race. Damn! still no splits after the swim? I then went out for my bike ride. When I got back from my bike ride and showered I check out on all my friends. By this time they had all finished, so I got all there splits.
Willem who is in the men 65_69 age group and from the Netherlands did great as usual with a 44:04 swim 2:47 bike and 2:28 run for a total fo 6:11:58! coming in 19 in his AG! Great racing Iron Machine! as I call him as he has done over 30 Ironmans and countless half Ironmans!
Fanny from Montreal Quebec who is in the 30 - 34 AG had and awesome race with a 35:12 swim, 2:34:27 bike, and a 1:43:47 run to finish with 4:58:46 ! coming in 45Th in her AG. Great job Fanny!
Louise who is in the women 65-69 AG and is friend and a neighbour of mine living in the next town just north of Barrie, had a great race coming in first in her AG with a swim of 42: 02, 2:29:30 bike and a 2:17:05 run for a finish of 5:38. Awesome job Louise!
Dave Who is Louise's husband and is in the 70- 74 Ag came in 3rd in his AG with a swim of 42:46, 2:33:13 bike and a 2:26:38 run to finish in 5:52:13! I think he was drafting off of Louise!;) Great job Dave!
I watched the rest of the broadcast to the end, then fired up the BBQ and cooked some Penguin steaks for dinner. The rest of the evening I will chill, go for a hot tub and have a few beers. :)
Congrats to all the racers!!
Today menu....
Breakfast, the usual, bacon and eggs with toast and strawberry jam, Lunch nothing, Dinner, one penguin steak and probably a few beers tonight. 3000 total Cal's if you include the beers! :)
:)
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