Pre-race IMC

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Nathan

It’s been a great build up to race day that will be bright and early Sunday Morning @ 7am. All the hours of training, trips, and bike repairs has been an experience that I can’t really put into words. I can’t image the feeling after competing the race, finishing the biggest training day to date. The only thing I can really say is if you think you might want to go for an Ironman, do it, it will be something you will always remember.

With the big day within reach I would like to thank everyone along the way for the support for Dan and I, and the huge amount of money raised. Online we are very close to 3,000 dollars with another 500 dollars not included in the online total. Just in the last year a number people in my core of friends have been directly effected by someone with a heart condition or stroke and I feel it was the correct charity to help out. A big thanks to my Calgary people for getting me very very close to my goal. Hope race day will go as good or better then the money raising. I believe that my online page shuts down on Sunday so if you’re still wanting to donate go to ironmanfund.com soon!

I am looking to beat the 11 hour mark and hopefully better with a top 100-150 overall finish. A lot of things need to go right with nothing going wrong to get me to the finish line in that time. Weather is looking good and so it looks like it’s up to me and my bike. I will be number 283 and we will be starting at 7:00am Sunday morning. I am not sure if they have live tracking for the race but checkout ironman.ca for any info.

ironman/ironmanfund.com final count down

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Nathan

Just over a week left til Ironman Canada in Penticton goes down on the 29th. This also means just over a week to try and reach the goal of 5,000 for the Heart and Stroke foundation. After a huge weekend with two fundraisers one in Calgary and other out here in Langley, I am so pumped with the total close to 3,0 00 dollars ( 2,400 showing online.) I am so thankful for everyone’s help so far and looking forward to the big race.

I am feeling pretty tired but I can tell the body is starting to feel strong and healed up. Swimming is getting easy and smooth, biking isn’t as slow as it was two months ago, and when I’m running it doesn’t feel like I’m 200 pounds. Going to start tracking the weather and read up on race day tricks and food hints. Heading up next Thursday and might have to do the float 5-6 times just to stop me from running or biking too much while I’m up there.

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Fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Nathan

Gearing up literally for a big Friday night with proceeds going to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Willboughby Hall in Langley 6:30 start til late.

Show Poster

Some of the treats that will be seen tomorrow. These two original works will be a part of our silent auction plus much more. Just can’t thanks these two enough. I was left speechless last night when I went into Vancouver to pick these up.

One of the true Master Pieces from Phil Kwan. A one off made just for this show.

Amazing... created by Jay Leblanc from Leblanctattoo.com. Another one off made just for this show.

Lake Samish open water swim

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Nathan

Sunday morning I headed out to Lake Samish for my first open water only swim race that was 5k long. I have done two previous open water races in the half ironmans at shorter distances but I wanted to make sure that my swimming was ready for the end of August. A two loop course and a gel stop half way.

I got up at about 5:30 with a bit of a stomach flu but made it out there for 6:40. Race pick up was from 6:30-7:30 with the race starting a 8:00. They had a pre-race meeting 10 minutes before that I wish I would have paid a little more attention to.

Race went well until the two people I was behind were only doing the 1.5mile race. I was now the leader without a clue on what markers to swim to. I ended up getting cut off by a race kayak to go back around one of the cans and after that he ghosted me the whole way. I ended up get caught by a little rocket by the end of the race to grab 2 second, she was joking with me after about how she wouldn’t have caught me if I didn’t swim off course…oh well. Fun swim that I might have to try and get over for next year. Finished up with a 1 hour 13 minutes which should set me up with a good 4k time in a few more weeks.

race website: http://www.lakesamishswim.com

swim was two loops around the small section on the left

Washington training session

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Nathan

Weekend in Washington. Fresh routes and fresher photos.

Down at the docks Anacortes, Wash

The long ride on Saturday was good with cool temps. Fun day out on the bike, I headed out early so the traffic wasn’t too bad, but it didn’t seem to matter because the shoulders were so nice and wide. Hit the ocean and turned around and came back. After the ride, threw on the shoes and ran into town and back for a good little brick run. Then finally finished up with a short swim in the ocean.

The longer run Sunday that was pretty scenic then jumped on the bike and did a similar ride to the run but lengthened it out a bit longer, few more loops and riding around town.