Shawnigan Lake Triathlon

Monica and her bike "Renaldo" arrive in Canada from Kona for some racing and triathlon training in Victoria.

Thanks Monica for letting me use your photos for the blog, I have not figured out how to take photos of myself yet.

Commonwealth Pool swim with Lifesport Masters.

ALOHA!!! Checking out the water at 7am the day before the Shawnigan Lake race to do some open water swimming and drills.

I did not feel so calm the race morning but it was nice to get a swim in the wetsuit,, I love the wetsuit!!

Monica's transition spot is set up for the next day.

My bike racked for transition. A nice spot near the end, easy to find, as on Sunday morning the transition area was busy and full!!

Ok, race morning, ready to go, lets start now before the others show up, I need any advantage I can get!!!

My start was at 7am and I took about 10 minutes off of my Half Ironman time from last year

Monica is more than ready to do her first international race in Canada .

She did the Olympic Distance race and bettered her Lavaman time by seven minutes!!

After the race it was time for some recovery to those aching muscles. Back into Shawnigan Lake to help reduce swelling and repair damaged tissue.

Not quite the Pier in Kona, no tropical fish, but a fun race and a great time!!!!

Ultimate Camp, Lactate Testing

Wednesday morning started off travelling to the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence where national caliber athletes train and go for testing. The day before we were there going through the recovery drills, ice bath, warm bath, ice bath, warm shower then spin on a cycle. We repeated this six times and had loads of fun as some trouble instigators sprayed cold water on others with bath toys!!!!

So Wednesday morning was going to be lots of fun also, we thought. Lisa Mensink an Olympic athlete was on the trainer being tested and then it was realized it would be very hard. Staff at the Institute as well as her coaches from Lifesport pushed and encouraged her as she pushed herself to the limit.



I was up after her and after a warm up, did three minute sessions that got harder each time until I could not keep up the cadence and faded.



Thanks again to Monica for letting me take photos of the Kona Gal for how we went through the session. Above she is set up and cruising.




At this point, the resistance is increasing as cadence is kept up.

This is the screen monitoring heart rates, watts, cadence etc

At the end you give it all you have, leaving nothing left.

Anyone up for trying some lactate testing!!!

Check out the video below !!!