3 hours in the life of a cyclist. This is what my Sunday morning looked like.
Trying out my camera on the first 75k of a 100k bike this past weekend. The mount was slipping a lot, but it was still a gorgeous ride.
Category: Fitness
3.8 km L.O.S.T. Race report: last weekend’s time got smoked
Melanie Price’s completion of her 42 km Lake Ontario crossing yesterday morning in Coronation Park must have been fresh on my mind, because that’s where I drove to first this morning. It was about ten minutes out from the race start, so I got to pass the exit point of our swim. The 4 km … Continued
Welland MSO Open Water Swim race report
After yesterday’s epic 101k loop of the Muskoka half-iron course I felt like I could use a day to recover. So I packed my speedos and headed down to Welland for the Under the Four Bridges MSO Open Water Provincial Championship race. Well at least I got to sleep in a bit, since it was … Continued
A 1.86 k swim race and what over 40 km of self-powered travel over water in a weekend looks like
This weekend was a total convergence of awesome. B and S invited me up to B’s cottage in Honey Harbour for the long weekend. There was also a swim race at Kempenfest on Saturday that coach Ayesha told us about. I wanted to do both, but I didn’t want to bother B to have to boat … Continued
Garmin in the pool results
I’m actually surprised that it worked way better than I expected. Here’s a chart of the whole session last night. It actually gives a lot of useful data. If you’re not familiar with this program and what everything in that chart means, the main metric that’s tracked here is that red squiggly line, which is … Continued
How to use a Garmin 305 to log heart rate data in the pool
It may be a little premature to do up a how-to before I’ve even fully tested to see if it works, but I’m a little excited to try this out. I don’t feel like spending another $200 for another watch so I can track heart rate underwater, especially when I don’t know if I’m going … Continued
Twelve step program: modifying an old cycling shoe for a midsole cleat position
Since the end of last year when I was told I have a touch of tibialis posterior syndrome (basically a glorified form of tendinitis involving the tendon connecting the back of your shin to the bottom of your foot), I’ve been completely off running, and only able to handle very small amounts of cycling at … Continued
George’s fitness: 2010 year in review
I haven’t had a good “in review” post in a while. When my focus was on blogging and losing weight I did a review post every five pounds (so essentially every month). I’ve been meaning to do a full year review for a few years now, but when the year ends in a whimper there’s … Continued
Salvaging data from a bad race – Edge 305 GPS accuracy while swimming and accounting for navigation errors
The purpose of last Sunday’s race was to try and gauge whether I should register for the Muskoka half-ironman in September or not. Looks like I’m not going to be registering for this year. I could definitely finish it, but based on the Muskoka long course race on Sunday I don’t think I’d be able … Continued
Impulsively entered an olympic distance tri and actually finished!
I was completely unprepared for this. I wanted to do an open water swim and a quick training run so I just impulsively entered. After Saturday’s solo swim I figured it would be safer to have kayaks nearby anyway. I really like this race distance. It seemed like a far-fetched idea three weeks ago, but … Continued