Who can read? a short rant.

Apparently not the jokers that were swimming in the pool this morning! I was swimming away in the fast lane, minding my own business. I know I'm not the fastest swimmer, but I definitely belong in the fast lane as long as the ex-varsity swimmers aren't there.

So I'm doing a set of 200 breast and I get to the end of the pool, and there were two people standing across the end blocking my way for the turn, I swim around them and keep going. My next set was legs only, and they finally start swimming. I always do 8 lengths of legs when I go, 1 flutter, 1 whip, 1 flutter, 1 dophin, and then repeat. So these people who are swimming in the FAST lane (which is clearly marked) start doing their front crawl, except, I'm going faster than them doing my dophin and whip kicks, wtf? do these people not know how to read?

Granted the fast lane wasn't busy, but neither was the slow lane. After I was finished my planned work out, I did 2 x 50 fast to show my annoyance. It got rid of them in a hurry though, I should have done it way sooner!!!

Rogers is Evil

I've been at home now for over 3 hours waiting for the rogers person to show up and its a no show. I call to see what is going on, apparently there is an appointment booked for NEXT monday at 2-5, wtf??? That is definitely not what I was told yesterday, so I let the guy have an earful. And bitched that I was missing 3 hours of work today and I would have to miss another 3 tomorrow for them to come. (I didn't let him in on the fact that I am home sick or that I'm a grad stude though :)) I'm pissed off. I have an appointment at 4 and wanted to pick up my bike before then. The dude is calling the service department to see if they can get someone out here before I have to leave, but I'm still not impressed >:(. Let me just say this. I'm taking full advantage of the free digital receiver and $3/month for OLN for the 2 month trial period and then sending it all back!

May I introduce...

My new bike :D

The Fuji Aloha
http://www.fujibikes.com/2005/bikes.asp?id=21
I got a great deal on last years model (yellow replaced with red) and it was $500 off :)

I'm still feeling a little crappy this morning, I have a brutal headache because of how dehydrated I am. I have to be home from 11-2 when the cable guy comes to hook up my OLN (tour watching!), so I think i'm just going to head into school and make sure I have enough stuff to keep me busy today at home. I'm not sure how productive I'm going to be in my current state, but you never know. I'm attempting to eat breakfast this morning - plain white toast and gingerale. Oooh, healthy! ;)

Ugh

My weekend

Thursday - drove home and got fitted for My Maid of Honour Dress for D's Wedding
Friday - Woke up feeling unwell tried my run, but had to bag it at 3.5 cause I didn't feel well. Decided to try camping trip anyways. By the time we reached our campsite (interior - backcountry) I was doubled over vomiting. Decided to stick it out the night and was feeling much better in the morning.
Saturday - Canoed the Barron Canyon. I'll try to post pictures later this week - it was gorgeous
Sunday - Drove home to bville had a shower and dinner then carried on to wloo.

Today - I'm feeling unwell again :( I feel hot and gross, but I'm not sure why. Hopefully it'll pass, I'm going to try to go to school and get some work done, but I may end up at home later today if that isn't going to well. I don't know what is with me? No one I know has the stomache flu so maybe it is something I ate? but what? I had some milk that I suspect may have gone bad on Thursday morning, but I wouldn't still be ill from that now?

Okay, so I need to continue getting ready for school. Laters.

Go me!

Just got an e-mail from the race organizer of the Waterloo Classic. Seems I did get the third place award after all (since Joanna Fedy the captain of the waterloo xcountry team won the race). yay! I have an age group medal.

My poor bike :(

So this morning I went for a bike ride with burger and shortly after she turned around to go back home my bike broke down. Word from the bike store is that there is a good chance it might not be worth the money to fix it, in that case I'll be salvaging the parts and giving what is still good to Burger. She'll have one awesome bike by the end!!!

So I've been looking seriously at Tri bikes. I think I'm willing to go into debt over it. For anyone who is curious as to which models I'm looking at, I'll post the links

1) Norco C-tri
http://www.norco.com/05/2005bikes/road.php
2) Trek Equinox 7
http://www2.trekbikes.com/Bikes/Road/Time_Trial-Triathlon/Triathlon/Equinox_7/index.php
3) Quintana Roo Kilo
http://www.rooworld.com/bikes/2005/kilo.aspx
4) Quintana Roo Tequilo
http://www.rooworld.com/bikes/2005/tequilo.aspx
5) Fuji Aloha
http://www.fujibikes.com/2005/bikes.asp?id=21

If there is anything else that I find that is in my price range I may go for that one too, but so far these ones seem to be the front runners.

I guess I should update...

Not much new is going on in this end of the world. I have been lacking serious motivation at school for about a week now. I'm so close to being done 774, but I can't motivate myself to work on it. Instead I've been spending way too much time working on my TA, just taking my time with it. But I did stay until 5:00 tonight, so maybe the draught is over?

I can't remember what I did outside of school last week, so obviously it wasn't too exciting! But I did go berry picking and made jam (yum!)

This weekend I was helping my sister move and in belleville for my granny's birthday. Since I was in that end of the province, I met up with C-Dub and went to Kalan Porter. I'm a dork :). He was definitely a good singer, I just think he needs to find his own style. We also went out dancing which was super fun. I have been dancing in way too long! C started talking to these two guys asking them why they weren't dancing. Turns out she works with one of them. How funny is that? They were both engineering students from Dal.

S & W's new place is really nice. It was nice getting to see them again, I hadn't seen W since he broke his ankle. It is all healed again and he is allowed to return to sports. I'm trying to convince him to train and do the Niagara Half Marathon. Hopefully he doesn't fall and break his other ankle this time. (He broke it running under my bidding :O :(). I guess that is it.

Oh, and I saw my dad's pictures from his trip to Italy and Greece. Gorgeous! I'm so excited about going next summer. He got me a fake Louis Vuitton Purse. It is pretty nice - I guess there are some benefits to your dad dating someone. Presents are better :)

#@%$!

Not good :( I've been trying to get these stupid model runs done on my computer for like 4 days now. What happens??? The last two somehow crash when there is like a couple hours left on them. I have no clue what caused the crash. But here I go, leaving my computer all day again for the 5th day in a row. GRrrrrrr. I'm not a happy camper.

However, I did order my copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last night :D It will be available for me to pick up at 12:01 am on July 16th. Only 24 more days!!!!!!!!

Another weekend gone

And none too exciting either! Kind of weird that I like being in waterloo for the weekend and not going anywhere, but I always end up being bored when I'm here.

Friday was a busy tri-training day. Went for a swim in the morning and managed to sneak in 2000 yards, go me! Later I went to the gym and did my weights and drove over to the soccer practice, I was 25 minutes early, so decided to take advantage and go for the run I had planned. Ended up doing 4, I wanted to do more, but I was pretty happy I got in anything at all.

Saturday I went to the Market. I love going there. I bought some orange gerbers and they are totally brightening up my kitchen. I love flowers :). Later on I read some, slept some, and finally got out of my lazy spell around 4 and cleaned my apartment. Top to Bottom. Man, it felt good. My apartment is now sparkling :). Around 9 I got a call from my cousin, she was going to be in KW sunday for her NLS (Lifeguard) recertification and needed a place to stay on Sunday night so that brightened my day.

Sunday, had my race in the morning :D. We all know that it went really well. I'm still grinning about it this morning. It feels really good to have accomplished something I didn't think I was capable of doing! I usually set lofty athletic goals, and am really hard on myself when I don't meet them. However, my last three races (two halfs and my 5K) all went really well. Yes, I was off my goal by 9 minutes in Ottawa, but really I know that the weather played a huge role in that so I was able to move past the time part of it. Later on, I was pretty wiped after such an exhaustive effort. I slept some more, and read a bit. In the afternoon, it really didn't look like it was going to clear up, but it definitely wasn't going to rain, so I took my camping stuff out from last weekend to air out and dry out before dinner. Sure enough, after dinner the clouds had cleared and it was bright bright bright. Oh well, I'm not psychic!

I went to pick up zoers at the Y at 9:30 and on the way home we rented Princess Diaries 2. Very Cheesy, but in a good sort of way. I was a little disappointed though when Julie Andrews broke into song and dance and it wasn't My Favorite Things. Zoe had to be off early this morning so I saw her off and went back to my apartment to work from home. I'm now at school to set up my computer (infinity yay!) and do my office hour. There isn't enough time in the day! Oh well, I have my model running on my computer at home, so I'm multi-tasking :)

I'm a speed demoned :)

I did the Waterloo Classic 5K race this morning, and for the first time ever, I really truely raced a 5K.

Finishing time, 25:43 according to my watch (they have chip timing, but without a starting mat, the number is kind of useless... my official time was 26:04). This is a full 1:30 faster than my PR and watch time, 1:50 minutes faster. I rock :)

Sorry for all you non-runners out there, but I'm super proud of myself! (4/24 in F20-24 too... but all the fastest youngin's run the 10K).