SubscribeWell, little miss is off to camp now and I miss her already. It would have been fun to have her out at the BBQ fund raiser today at Sandra’s and at the pool before hand. I am positive that she is having a blast though and look forward to hearing about her adventures when she returns late in the week.
I did use my free afternoon wisely though and went to the Coquitlam Aquatic Center for a 4km steady swim. Yup, 4 freaking kilometers. 4000 meters. 80 laps. 160 lengths of the pool.
Yes, I am pretty damned chuffed with myself about that actually 
Can I do the Ironman distance? Hell yes I can. Oh, and I can do it in plus a bit in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 36 seconds. Extrapolating backwards and comparing to my recent open water race swim times and barring cluster fuckage I should be out of the water in 1:20:00 on the big day. That’s about 10 minutes shy of my “goal” so that’s just not bad at all. Hey, things can go wrong for sure, but when they go right I know what to expect
To be honest though, I knew I could do the Ironman distance in Osoyoos. After the 2 1km loops I could easily have hopped back in the water and pounded it out all over again. It was a fantastic feeling. And today was a great feeling as well.
After the swim I went out to Sandra’s for a fund raiser BBQ to support research into a cure for Breast Cancer. Yup, I was supporting boobies again. Or, as the t-shirts they had on sale said, I was “saving second base”.
Of course I was famished after the swim and so downed a number of calories as quickly as possible (yes, I had pop damn it, no I should not have had 4 over the course of the afternoon, but I drank liters of water also and wasn’t switching to booze). All and all a great time was had. I chatted with old friends, played pool (and lost more than I won, gasp!), ate food, donated money to a great cause and generally had fun.
Tomorrow morning is the big ride out to and from Squamish. This should actually be my longest ride ever. I’m going to celebrate that by throwing in a 10km run at the end, just to see how it feels.
S
Nutrition and Exercise
1000
- The other half bag of the chips (big bag)
1400
- Gel
1400
- 4km steady swim with pull buoy at CCAC. (1:21:36)
1600 – 2130
- 2 Cheese burgers
- 2 Samosas
- 4 Cans of Coke
- 1 Rice Crispy Treat
