Update.

So I haven't been too talkative lately. I guess I haven't had much to write about really. I had an awesome weekend with the Exaggerator and C-dub up in the Kawarthas. Very nice and relaxing :), but other than that really, not much going on. Mostly tour watching, but now even that is over.

I've talked about HP enough to satiate myself until you guys are done, so I'm not going to post anything about that.

The term at school is winding down which means my TA is almost over. I'm not really sad about it, it ended up being a lot of work. I think because I missed the first 2 weeks of term with field school I kind of hit the ground running and haven't had much time to relax since before field school started. It'll be nice when I finally have a bit of time off in August, but I'm going to feel incredibly guilty than, and not really okay with taking that much time off. I guess that happens. I'm probably using up my final vacation days as a grad student to go to africa, so I don't forsee any trips until I'm done after this one. (unless there be some big reason to take a trip to red deer!).

So that is it for today, basically just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive :)

I'm done

Burger, Niks, and Exaggerator, let me know when you are done :) I have so much to say!

I dream of Harry

Yep, last night I dreamt that I couldn't wait until midnight and went to a book store that was selling it early. It was the weirdest bookstore ever. It sold dinning room furniture that you could test out, in store. Ie. sit down and have a meal. very bizzare.

Getting back to the harry bit, the cover wasn't what it was supposed to be (------>) but had a crude painting of a village in a snow storm. It had some sort of caption on the inside like "Cover Art by:...... age 10, passed away from cancer.

How weird is that. I think I'm confusing my Harry madness with my tour madness (tour... lance... livestrong... cancer). Oh well, just finishing up my assignment from home. I will shortly be printing. Yipee!

I'm almost done!

774 that is. The course from hell that I started on winter day about 6.5 months ago. The end is finally in sight and as long as nothing bad happens, I should be done before the day is through. Yay!

So other than that, not much. We had our Soccer playoff game last night. We lost in penalty shots at the end when we tied 0-0. I'm pretty happy with how we did, I didn't think we would have been able to hold them off with two of the best players on our team seriously injured.

Other news - I sold my old bike yesterday, Blythe's Boy bought it off of me, so that'll help with the finances a bit (and clear up room in my apartment if I decide to move my bike out to the shed. (This is HIGHLY unlikely though!).

One last thing I guess. Marathon Training started this week, and my body already feels like an old woman. I've run 26 km, had two soccer things (one practice, one game), and a spinning class in the last three days, and it has really wiped me out. Maybe I'm not meant to be a marathoner? I'll keep up the effort for now, and make my decision after I get back from africa.

Peterborough triathlon :)

This morning, we biked to the race from C-dubs house. About 5 km, there was a half ironman going on to, so we correctly guessed that parking would be a b*tch so it was a smart decision. We set up our transition and watched the half ironmaners start. Impressive.

My goals - Finish I was *hoping against all hopes* to get 1:30, but thought that was a bit of a pipe dream. I knew I could do the swim in less than 15:00, and the run in < 30:00, but the bike was a bit of an unknown. I'd have to ride in 45:00 and fit the transition times in there somewhere.

The swim 750 m- I did pretty much as expected, coming out of the water in about 13:30, but there was a nice longish job into the transition so my official time was 14:48 8/19 in my age group, but I know one of those people passed me on the jog into the transition, so I'm going to say 7/19, so there First transition felt like I was taking forever, but it was really only 1:35, so that was pretty good.

The bike 20 K - Now this is where I usually have the most trouble. I have never really thought of myself as a cyclist, It is definitely tough for me, in the first 1-2 km I was getting passed everywhere by men, but I figure they were all in the same wave as me, but I'm just a better swimmer . After that it kind of slowed down a bit. I still hadn't seen any other women, and then the miracle of all miracles happened. I passed a girl. On a road bike. In my age group. Go me! I got passed by a few girls in my group, but they were mostly older women, on fancy shmancy bikes. There was this one girl who I played cat an mouse with the entire bike, and she finished just ahead of me, I clicked out of my pedals too early! Bike time 41:12 yep, that is 29.1 km/hour 18.2 mph and... 7/19 in age. same as on the swim!!! T2-1:27 (Oh, and on the whole way back there was a brutal head wind!)

The Run 5K - So onto the run. I was a little nervous due to my last minute bike purchase I wasn't able to practice any bricks (bike then run) on my new bike. I thought I was running slower than molasses, it just wasn't going well. I was getting passed all over the place and took great condolence from the fact that they all looked to be in pretty good shape. I had to double check my watch at the first km marker, was I really running that fast? At about half way, I realized, I was getting my 1:30 even if I had to walk a bit, but I was feeling so much better, I was able to pick up the pace a bit, and passed the girl from the bike one last time, no looking back finished the run in 26:22 10/19 in age. Over all time, 1:25:21 and 8/19 in age group. I'm a mid packer :D (I typically finish tris like 2nd or 3rd last in age).

Started walking out on the run course and C-dub caught up, she was just starting the run, so I ran/walked with her for another 5k. I was proud of her!

Remotivated :)

Well, after a good month of unmotivated work, I'm finally back on track. I worked for a good two hours on my assignment this afternoon and I have a good idea of what I have to do to finish. I'll be staying at school late tomorrow and going in on Sunday when I get back to the loo. Hopefully I'll be done by the end of Monday.

I had a meeting with my supervisor and he sufficiently scared me into getting a crack on things! I have so much work to do on my thesis!!!

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.