Read and follow along as Carly trains for her first triathlon!
Carly’s Day of Triathloning. 7:30am: Wake up, go for warm-up bike ride. 8:22am: Wait for the bus, didn’t think about how many other people were taking the bus to UBC with their bike. A 99 already with two bikes on its rack drives by. 8:29am: A 17 with only one bike on it! Yes! Put […]
Oh man, in less than 10 hours I will already be on the bike portion of my race! I’m actually relatively calm for someone who is about to race their first triathlon in the morning, but perhaps it’s because I really have no idea what I’m really getting myself into. I can’t even guess how […]
I got my race package! I’ll be racing with #2164 starting at 10:10am! Some of the nerves have gone away, the excitement is overpowering it. It still doesn’t actually feel real that I’m less than 48 hours away from my first triathlon. I’ve been looking through the race package for the past half hour, but […]
This time next week I will have completed my first triathlon. Holy crap. I didn’t think that time would go by this quickly. I’ve actually started doubting myself. Did I train as hard as I could have? Am I actually ready to do this? I went for a swim today at the UBC pool and […]
I just had the realization today that TriDu is next weekend! In seven days I will racing my first ever triathlon… I can’t believe it’s actually next week. I’m actually more nervous now than ever before. Panic mode begins. I started doing some research about triathlon tips on the days leading up to the race. […]
I learned a pretty valuable lesson on Monday night: you’re going to regret what you didn’t do more than what you did do. Monday evening was ugly as I’m sure you all saw. It was that gross half rain-half snow stuff that doesn’t stick to the ground, it just makes everything messy. On a side […]
While teaching my grade 8 social studies class about ancient Chinese philosophy this past week, one my students read aloud his favourite quote from Confucius, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” It’s incredibly cheesy, I know, but the quote really stuck with me because I feel that it sums up […]
I’m learning the hard way how important it is to do things properly and efficiently. I had a pretty intense swim session last night and I am not a technical swimmer at all. Because of that, my shoulders were incredibly sore. It’s amazing how seemingly small corrections can make a huge difference. I’ve even been […]
Tonight I went to my first spin class ever at the Birdcoop. It was actually the first time I’ve ever set foot in the Birdcoop. Personally, I can’t stand gyms. They’re cold and sterile and have way too much metal in them. We live in the most comfortable climate in Canada and one of the […]
My motivation to go to my Monday night running clinic was at an all time low this week, if last week’s motivation was at negative 5, this week was at negative 10. After some gentle encouragement (or yelling…) from friends, I went. Holy crap did I hate the first kilometre of the run. We ran […]
