SWBKRUN MENTOR GROUP - FULL (Page 17)

Great job Benson. That's a great position for your first Tri!

Well, I just registered for my first Tri of the season. It's on June 30th and in a suburb of Toronto (Brampton). So, I guess I should start doing some more swimming. Not sure what the water is like there so will be taking a drive out there one day (I have business meetings in Brampton fairly regularly) to scope out the lake and area.

 Now I'm starting worry what I have gotten myself into.

Well I finally pulled the trigger and bought a new bike.  It's a GT -r Series 2.  Aluminum frame with carbon forks, all 105, except for the rear derailer which is Dura-Ace.  Dura-ace is sooo nice.  Good, clean reliable shifting.  I'll have to post a picture of 'us' later.  My former bike was a 10-yo Trek steel frame with shifters on the downtube.  Scarry business shifting at 25+ mph!

Time to ride, ride, ride. 

Sounds like a great bike.

 I just came back from doing my longest ride ever. 77K (according to by computer), along the two main highway arteries in Toronto. This ride was for the Heart and Stroke foundation and has about 20,000 riders doing either 25k, 50k or 75k. I felt great on the ride, took me right on 3 hours to complete, so a little slow compared some of the really bikers out there, but I am happy with the session.

 Only one major accident where a club pace line wiped out and at least one of the riders was carted away on the ambulance. Hopefully they are ok. The pace line is pretty scarry if your not used to it, so I'm not sure I'll be doing that anytime soon.

Very cool!

I plan to climb Mt. St. Helen's in August.  Although it is a non-technical climb (like Ranier), it is a rush to finally make it to the top and look out over 1,000's of sq-miles of mountains and valleys.

Good luck with the surgery. 

Steve - Glad to hear things went well and you are on the mend.  Hang in there!  It won't be long until you are out running, hiking, biking and swimming again.

Have a great weekend everyone!!  TGIF!!

Steve, glad to hear the surgery was a success. Hope you come through it stronger than before you had it.

I'm prepping to do the Brampton Sprint race, it will be my first Tri this year. This morning I did a 10.2K in Toronto, then drove up to Musselman lake and did my first OWS since last September. The water felt great (about 70) and was very calm. We did about 750M, based on the dragon boat bouys that we swam around. Then we did a short easy ride of 16k. Was a great day for it today and I am now pysched for the Brampton race. Even though I am not going to win anything, I am looking forward to getting out and having a great time.

That's great Adam.

looking forward to reading your race report.

My first sprint of the season is on Saturday (June 30), so looking forward to that.

Well I got 'her done yesterday. Not too speedy and slower than I wanted to be, but at least I finished and not quite last. A great event though. The field was very tough as it was the nationals and most of the competitors were experienced racers.

 I have submitted a race report.