I am settled back home in Victoria now for a whole 5 days before we head off to Europe for three weeks. Waking up at 5:30am and falling asleep at 8:30pm as I am still on East Coast time is annoying but I figure I will try and keep it this way as I will have less hours to change …

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Tomorrow I am racing at the Des Moines ITU world cup triathlon which has the largest prize purse in the history of triathlon with over 1million dollars split men and women with 200k going to the winners of each. Coming off such a strong last weekend I hope to replicate the effort and have a better swim to start the …

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All good tours start with coffee! Off for our “recovery” tour run. The White House, it isn’t so big, it fits behind my head. Or is my head that big??? Me squishing ??George Washington’s?? head at the US Treasury. My try at being artistic with the Washington Monument.

After a bit of a nightmare of a swim: dive in, goggles flip off, breast stroke, 10 strokes, goggle fills up, empty goggle, blow arms to pieces trying to catch up, just catch up to the back of the race when I run into one of many swaths of branches, leaves, logs, garbage etc in this dirty river we a …

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Going to be my new ride once the first run is released in a few weeks! Around the 14lb mark and stiff as anything with the BB30 bottom bracket and nice and aero too! Nice work Blue!

After doing my final hard workout of 4xhilly broadmead loop (28min) with 10min run at 3:03min/km pace off of it and then some long strides, I feel ready for the coming races. After two massages this week (Thanks Gibson and Kim), a few days rest to complete the training cycle and some tune up workouts, that is all I need …

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Now that I have finished that final ten day block of training which had three key run speed workouts I feel much more prepared and ready for the next WCS events. I had done a couple of runs trying to keep up to one of the best marathoners in the world (who happens to live at the end of my …

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Figured I would give a quick run down of the second WCS (ITU world championships series) event I did this season. After a hard block of training after Tongyeong that I struggled through I was looking forward to the recovery going into the race. It was my first trip in a long time that I was the only Canadian going …

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I didn’t forget how hard and intense these ITU races were but man it is a kick in the pants! That said I prepared mentally as best as I could for that and I was fairly happy with how I got back in touch with that feeling of pain after 1o months off from it. My swim was solid to …

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Back in the wonderful city of Tongyeong for the fourth time in my career, I think. It all tends to blur together. After a long but fairly smooth trip over arriving Wednesday I have had a couple good nights sleep and some solid tune up workouts. I am excited for my first ITU race in 10 months. I have lots …

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