Much of my Canada Day long weekend was spent competing in fun sporting activities that gave me the opportunity to enjoy some wonderful Vancouver area lakes. I did a triathlon at Whonnock Lake on Sunday that included an 800m swim. I’d never been to the area before and was pleasantly surprised with the lovely lake [...]
Despite an almost complete lack of training so far this year, I (foolishly, you might say) decided to enter the UBC Triathlon over the weekend. This event started my interest in triathlon back in 2006 when a friend talked me into entering the short course. These days I usually enter sprint distance triathlons (800m swim, [...]
Wyn recently blogged about her Sun Run registration. Our birthdays must be close because I also registered for the Sun Run last week and was horrified when it asked for my “age on the day of the race” and I had to write 30! On the bright side, as Wyn points out, we’ve moved up [...]
The apartment hunt continues but the hunt for a Wii is over. The Source put me on their backorder list when they couldn’t fill my order a couple weeks ago and they finally came through with one late last week. With any luck I’ll be able to pick it up at Purolater tomorrow evening. And [...]
(Maybe one of these days my blog will change more often than the seasons…) The fall semester is in full swing, and so is my half-marathon clinic. The past month and a half I’ve been splitting my time between puzzling over my algorithms course homework and running all over North Burnaby. Both activities are going [...]
Well, 10.8k to be exact. I had planned on doing a considerably shorter distance this weekend, but the Conquer the Point race at UBC was cancelled. So I’ve decided to enter the Do It For Dad race here in Burnaby because: 1) it’s a short bike ride from my house and 2) It doesn’t start [...]
I did my first 10k race ever on Sunday. Running is definitely my least favourite part of triathlon and I don’t train for it nearly as much as I should. In fact, this race was the first time in my life I had ever run 10k! My longest training runs so far have been only [...]
Here I am after yet another long break from blogging. Hopefully I can manage to stick with it this time. Since you last heard from me I’ve finished my courses at school and gotten involved in way too many extracurricular activities, from school-related committees to more exciting endeavours… like triathlons! Vancouver is an extremely fit [...]