IronMan Canada 2006

As you can see from the photo, I completed IronMan Canada in 12 hours, 55 minutes and 14 seconds!

Here is a quick overview of the essential stats. I will add a more detailed race report in a few days time, once I have a chance to catch up with myself.

The swim (2.4 miles): 1 hour 26 mins 29 secs
Swim ranking = 1836 / 2451

The bike (112 miles): 6 hours 23 mins 12 secs
Average speed = 17.54 mph
Bike ranking = 1502

The run (26.2 miles): 4 hours 44 mins 15 secs
Average = 10.5 min/mile
Overall ranking = 1050

Thank you again for your support. With your help I raised $7745 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. Our team total exceeded $750,000!!

This week I'll mostly be doing an IronMan

OK, this is the final week leading up the big event. I travel to Penticton with Raj on Thursday morning via Vancouver on an nice and early 6:14 AM flight. We have a couple of days prior to the event to settle in, register and get our acts together. The race itself will start at 07:00 AM Sunday morning. If you are interested in following along on the day you can click onto the link for IronMan Live (embedded in the title above) and see how I am getting on. The site will have details of my progress including my swim time, and bike and run splits. My race number is 1154. Check it out! Also, check back a few days later when they will have posted a video of me crossing the finish line - Yes, I am going to finish!

The latest weather forcast is for a high of 91. I was hoping that it would not be this hot but the forcast was for 70 a few days ago, so who knows.

It is time to taper

The time has finally come to start tapering our training in preparation for August 27. Last weekend was our last major training weekend which I celebrated by doing the Marin Century. This is a fabulous 105 mile ride around Marin which starts in San Raphael and heads north out to the coast and back via Petaluma. Although it is a beautiful ride, it is also one of the hilliest rides that I have done for a while taking in such classics as the Marshall Wall. The ride is well supported, and ends with a well stocked barbe that even had Hagan Das ice cream bars! If you didn't know already, ice cream has become my essential recovery food after a big ride.
On Sunday, I joined some of the team for a couple of laps of Aquatic Park, and a 10 mile run which I did with Susie.
Monday was a rest day and the start of week 1 of our 3 week taper. The first week doesn't seem much easier than usual but things start to look noticably lighter as time goes on. By the end of the taper, I am hoping that I will be energised and ready to go. However, I had better go easy on the ice cream or I may not be able to get off the couch.