Barrie TC 2011

The next two weeks is the time for me to hand over the reigns to the new 2011 Executive for the Barrie Triathlon Club. It has been an extraordinary year. To all of you that were part of the amazing ride, I truly thank you. Our growth was simply remarkable. The Barrie TC is in the heart of Triathlon country in Ontario and we have proved our popularity by listening to our membership and doing our best to provide services where we can even though we are just a non-profit organization.
I'm proud and excited to see the individuals who are coming in to pursue the 2011 year. As Tom Wolfe would say, "they have the right stuff".

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The young lad passing behind me is say, "what the fudge?"
Heather taking the photo is confused. Regardless I thought it was funny. It made me laugh. Perhaps Lloyd will laugh too.

3 Wks til Hamilton

Speed Work last night til after dark. Geez Kev? Tonight Yoga with the Mrs. ; Tomorrow Toronto for the Company.
Must say i'm liking the looks of the new Trek Speed Concept 9.9 as well as the Scott Plasma 3. Very sharp looking bikes.

21.1 K Base Borden

The inaugural Operation Hero put on by Base Borden was successful event. What most of us thought was going to be a flat road race really was more of a cross country race. I didn't know there were any hills on the grounds of Borden. I finished with a strong 1 hour 30 minutes and 10 seconds. Hoping this is exactly what type of tune up I needed for Hamilton three weeks away.

42K in Hamilton

Knocked off 89Km from last sunday and feeling good. Final goal for 2010, run a sub 3 in Hamilton. Looking forward to my tune up half marathon run at Base Borden on October 16th. The Road to Hope is growing in size and popularity. November 7th is d-day.

Aquila

Aquila Cronos Pro (2008) size=52 for sale. Asking $ 1990. or Best Offer. for more information write ijamie63@rogers.com

70.3 Syracuse PB 5hrs 14 mins 52 secs.

A 5.5 hr drive from Barrie and worth doing. Here's the skinny. Swim and beach area (plus transition area) huge in size. Jamieson Lake clean, safe, but run from water to T1 is a long one. [note for family and spectators, this race thought about them. One of the better IM for comfort, food, fruit, & morning coffee.] Make sure to get to the race site about 30 minutes before you think you need to, as traffic is a single lane, into Park, gets congested quickly. Imagine Milton X multiplier of a 100. Swim is a single loop of 1.2 m. There were 20 waves which i was Wave 20. Exactly 1 hour wait after the male pros took off. Bike course is a joy. First 20km, you're climbing, not like IMUtah but you're climbing. The next 60km moderately flat. Last 10km descending and its fun. Great opportunity to let gravity do it's thing and rest the legs before running. The 13.1 mi run course is perfect. I was aiming to do a 1 hr 30 min run, and it is quite achievable. Our day was wet, foggy with some slight rain. At top altitude on the bike, fog was so thick, visibility was about 100 meters. Im my age category M45-49 i finished 28th out of 214. Not to bad. 367th overall out of 2098 participants. Final time Swim 1 hr 40 mins, Bike 2 hrs 46 mins and run 1 hr 41 mins. This race will be grow quickly in popularity. Interestingly enough, not as many Canadians there as i would have thought possibly do to 70.3 Muskoka was a week earlier.