December 24th

Merry Christmas
As an early Christmas gift, I will test ride today my new bike. Kate is meeting me at home for a roughly 2 hours ride. The plan is to go from Commercial Dr to Deep Cove (approx 30km return).
But as we are hosting Christmas eve dinner, the ride is part of a marathon (cooking, cleaning, ...) And as if that was not enough Emilie who's on call for her first birth shadowing as a doula, receive a phone call at 9:00 telling her that the future mom is having contractions. I'm impress on how much work Emilie put before going for the birth delivery, she cleaned and organize the place beautifully. But sadly she won't be here for the dinner.
To come back to the bike ride, that's my new beast, I haven't name her yet, still waiting to know her better to have the perfect neame:
It's unbelieveable the difference that a road bike can make. It's so nice to ride and so fast, these 30km was just pleasure, maybe more if my toes were not freezing :-) I have to say that crossing the Second Arrow bridge is not the most relaxing part of the ride. But according to Kate there is way worth bridge around so can't complaint.
But now it's time to get dinner ready. On the menu, beautiful salad made by Emilie, seafood platter with oysters, salmon lox, smoked salmon, smoked tuna ... hmmm ... and as main dish Ahi Tuna with mango salsa and ratatouille. For dessert, cookie, brownie and a Fouguasse.

22 Decembre

Ce week-end, j'ai échangé mon jogging dominical avec l'équipe contre un week-end au ski :-) Mais pas du ski fainéant, ski de randonnée sil vous plait. On vient juste d'avoir nos premières peaux, c'était donc la parfaite excursion. Nous voila donc samedi en train de monter les pistes de ski de Manning Park. Le regard des autres skieurs était très surpris et même devaient se demander pourquoi on prenait pas le télésiège comme tout le monde. Ce fut une superbe première. Le soleil et ciel bleu étaient au rendez-vous, du coup il faisait chaud, très chaud à la montée. Je dois avouer que je ne suis pas encore assez en forme pour faire une journée complète de ski de randonnée. Mais ca va venir. Les descentes ont été moins fatigantes mais beaucoup moins bien élégantes. Je ne maitrise pas encore totalement le technique particulière du télémark.
Lundi, ohhhhhhh, ma journée de repos sans sport et quasi sans travail non plus. Je crois que le plus fatigant c'était d'attendre que mes nouvelles chaussures de vélo soient livrées. :-)
Aujourd'hui comme tous les mardi, direction piscine avant le levé du soleil, pour 1.1km dont 400m non stop. Ce soir je vais surement essayer mon nouveau vélo Yooupiiii, je dois aller faire les derniers ajustements cette après-midi. Promis je mettrais des photos de mon engin.

Decmber 17th

I will start today not by my mood description neither than by my training feat. I just ride for the first time in my life with a biking short and once you pass the stranger feeling of have a diaper, once I'm on my bike, I have to say, it's really comfy :-) To keep going on my fashion post, I just got a winter tight from Sugoi and oh ... my ride was nice and tasty.
To come back to the training, as now every thursday morning, I'm meeting Susan at the pool but not today, bus issue. I discover that the power to have a training partner. It make is easier and more challenging. I only swin 900m today and I have to say I don't have arms left. Thanks to Robyn for her amazing yoga class last night (www.myyogaspirit.ca). But as I said I don't have strength in my arm to swim a lot today.
Tonight, so far we are going snow-shoeing in Mount Seymour. Hopefully it won't be raining :-D

15 Decembre

Ouahhh... Premiere fois depuis un mois que je ne suis pas alle a la piscine en velo. Deviendrais-je fainéant? Non, mais peut etre un peu prudent. Hier il a neige pour la premiere fois cette saison sur Vancouver, pas grand chose mais comme il s'est mis a pleuvoir en soiree. Je n'ai pas voulu prendre le risque de faire Paff le pingouin :-)
Pour la premiere fois depuis le debut de l'entrainement on commence a travailler sur la distance. Ok on a commence raisonnablement ce matin mais quand meme, 400m quand tu n'y es pas habitue, c'est pas evident. La semaine prochaine pkoi pas essayer 500m :-)

December 13th

As many of my sunday (ok all my sunday since a month) start early by a group run from Granville Island. It's always a pleasure to meet the team and go for a run together. Today the treat was a brunch organized by Sandy at her non-house (she is house sitting some friends beautiful apartment) As Susan and I were invited to go to another brunch, it was very reasonably that we taste the pie frittata hmmm. After picking up Emilie, direction brunch #2 or lunch at Ricardo's house. I guess, it's the Christmas season when you have more than two social events in the same sunday. But as two was not enough, after Ricardo's brunch and dog walking in Mosquito creek, Emilie and I went to Andrea and Kendal's apartment for a "classic" German chrstimas party. So good german cookiesssss :-)

11 Decembre

Ça y est il neige ... bon d'accord pour l'instant c'est plus un mélange grêle-neige mais quand même, notre trottoir se recouvre lentement de cette blanche couche hivernale. Le seul hic c'est que ca va vraiment devenir galère de courir. Après le froid glacial de cette semaine voila la neige. Vivement Hawaï. Hier fut un triathlon, j'ai retrouvé Susan a la piscine après vélo pour aller au travail, vélo pour aller ajuster mes chaussures de télémark, vélo jusqu'au magasin de vélo pour essayer mon nouveau vélo (je suis super excité au passage :-) ) et ensuite bien sûr vélo pour rentrer à la maison, en tout ce fut presque 20km. Et comme il manque une activité sportive pour vraiment faire un triathlon, j'ai conclu cette chaude journée (ironique -2degC de moyenne) par un jogging de 6km. J'ai bien mérité ma journée de repos qui va se conclure par le diner de Noël de l'entreprise d'Émilie.

December 8th

MINUS 6deg C, for my morning ride to the pool, was pretty much how cold I can go for without a winter bike tight at least and maybe a full face mask. Hopefully we can soon enjoy a sunny day without deeply freezing (always complaining). To go back to the training, Susan and I swim a bit less than last week, just 1km. It seems that the training fatigue start to accumulate. One of my big future objective and challenge is to be more careful on my diet. Not too much, not to few :-D.
Here is a scoop on the future fundraising event that Emilie and I will be organizing. I will take place end of January, beginning of February. The big attraction will be the raffles prices.
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