OK BCers Whats up?

Not much planned for the rest of the season except for some local cyclocross action.

This year I had a great year.  22 months ago I was in a bad accident and last summer I barely got active as I was still recovering, pretty well learning to walk without a walker, doing some pool walking, spin bike at the gym a bit etc.  was horrible.

After ballooning to almost 225 lbs and hitting the obese mark, I had enough, and finally was healed enough to really do something about it.

Christmas passed and I was hitting the gym hard.  I'm not allowed to run so I was on the elliptical, got a trainer for at home, did weights, swam, rowed, whatever I could to be active.

6 months later I was down 40 pounds, and starting to hit my stride on the bike.  Finally matching my pre-accident speeds ( I had JUST started biking before the accident, so I had no base ) I was able to start going for group rides and going to the local time trials and criteriums.

Time trials were awesome, improved my speed every week, best I did was 38.5 km/h average over a slightly rolling 10 mile TT course in town here.   Won my first "B" group crit race.

I ended up having to do "A" group after that but got dropped fast, so my goal for the end of the summer was to complete a crit without getting dropped.

Sure enough, last crit of the summer i did it!!

Did the Vernon gran fondo earlier in the season, but learned a hard lesson about going out too hard and bonked HARD coming the back way to kelowna from vernon at the end.

Lastly, day before ironman, I completed a double century.  I biked from kelowna to vernon, biked the IMC bike course, then biked back to kelowna.  Awesome stuff and my biggest achievement of the year.



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2 more months until I get cleared to run.  My accident required hip surgery, busted the femur at the femoral head so I'm rocking 2 internal titanium femur rods, but the location of the break leaves me at an increased risk for bone death due to lack of bloodflow, so running regularly on it is a bad idea since it kills it a lot faster.  I have ran a bit here and there, and have already beat 24 1/2 minutes for my 5k though, a personal best for me.

As far as the off season goes, I want to improve my swimming, going to get a good swim coach to help me get past this 1:55/100m rut I am stuck in.

I also plan on marathon training, HARD!!



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Next year I am tentatively planning on the Vancouver Marathon in May.  I can do 10k in an hour without too much trouble now, and have done 15 in 1:40 so the winter should be enough time to do some speedwork and get my distance up

I am also planning on the Oliver half ( maybe i will see you there ) and MAYBE the desert half if I don't think it messes with my other plans.

I'd love to do either Challenge Penticton or IMC next year depending on where they announce the venue to be.

Any other sprints/olys inbetween could be a possibility.

Probably do the BMO Kelowna marathon in October too.

Across the lake swim too in Kelowna!!

Gran  fondos, I only do the cheap ones without timing chips personally.  I can't justify the price for a bikeride on the more expensive ones atm with my already expensive hobby :p

Sounds like I may see some BTers at some of my races!

Edited by dfquigley 2012-09-07 4:00 AM

Oh yeah, registered for the Oliver Half and Challenge Penticton next year :p