So I was out shovelling my driveway AGAIN this winter, my back screaming in protest after the first 2 hours, and it occurred to me... I don't own a freaking CAR!! Why am I doing this!? So that company doesn't have to park on the street!? I have a ridiculously long driveway, too. 1000+ calories is no...

The asthma bit is interesting to me. Never really considered it might be the same in hot, dry air. Tried and true, as far as I'm concerned. It's the dryness of the air. I wear a fairly thick fleece baclava when I run outside in the winter, even if I don't particularly need it for warmth. Sometimes ...

This is usually the worst time of year for me, concerning food. The holidays come with their candies, desserts, buffet tables of goodies at parties, hot chocolate, baked goodies, etc., and the holidays pass, and I find myself craving sugary and fatty foods like a fiend. This is just my personal expe...

Something very bad, is the answer. :( My knee does not hurt when I sit, walk, climb stairs, kneel crouch, run, jump, swim, pedal a bike. However, when I unbend my knee from sitting (at my desk, for example), I experience the most insane sharp pain I have ever felt in a limb, broken bones included. I...

It's not only as terrifying as all heck to be dealing with this at the age of 26, it's disappointing as well... Here's the story: In 2005 when I had my youngest son, I had a planned c-section due to previous emergency surgery. I was given a drug I was allergic to, and my heart stopped on the operati...

Highland Creek in Scarborough. I've biked through the area many times, and run through it also. There is a path that runs with the creek for about 12 kilometers, all the way to Lake Ontario. I'm very glad that construction along the path forced me to finally venture elsewhere. It. Stinks. The creek ...

I've collected $70 in pledges for the Terry Fox Foundation so far from a few family members and friends. Considering that many members of my family walk or run this event, individual donations tend to be small, since most in my family who are sponsoring anyone are supporting to several participants ...

Running to work and home again today, 5k each way, mean hills. I have blisters from a pair of new (non-running) shoes that made these runs on Tuesday not fun. Hopefully, what's left of them today isn't enough to have the same effect. Oh, and would a little HOT water at the gym be too much to ask for...

Cancer has had an impact on both sides of my family. On my mother's side, four family members have battled cancer. My cousin, who I grew up with (we were born days apart and lived in the same house for years) lost both of his eyes to retinoblastoma as a baby. Another cousin had cervical cancer a num...

Yahooooooooo! Congratulations Triathlete! What an awesome way to "start" the journey, though I'd say it's just the first official measure of a journey you've been working hard at for some time. That "former couch potato" victory is a sweet one, for sure. There's nothing quite like taking that moment...

I'm very sorry to hear about this, Maria. How very disappointing for everything to go so wrong when this was your A race. I'm all for getting up and trucking on when you're down, but if it's not safe, it's not safe. I can't believe there were speedbumps on the race course. WHY!? They could have at l...

When I met up with my grandmother, minutes before the start of my tri...er... duathlon a few weeks ago, my first ever race, it was about thirty seconds between her finding me for the first time that morning and blurting out, "where's your watch!? Oh no! Did you forget it!? Do you want mine!? Here, t...

I've noticed a HUGE difference, being on birth control vs. not being on it. I'd been off them completely for over three years, with a pregnancy smack-dab in the middle, but quite literally from the first week I started putting birth control hormones back in my body, I felt like I'd suddenly had a le...

Some weeks, sleep and I are just not good friends. I think I made up for it this morning. I recall setting an alarm, but I don't recall hearing it go off, or shutting it off, or falling back asleep. I was going to bike and swim today, but I think, instead, I will run for an hour or so before dinner....

Aha! I saw you there. I recognise the braids.

What a great dad you've got there.

Congratulations. Nice speed on the bike!

I didn't realise so many Maniacs would be there. I guess I need to read the board more often. One of these days, I'm sure I'll meet some of you. Congratulations on a great race and a strong 2nd run.

Sounds like you had a great race. Good work on leading the series, too. Hmmm, you get a prize for that, don't ya?

Hey Yoda, I was just curious if you have clipless pedals on the bike and if you were fitted properly on the bike ?? Is it possible that your seatpost/saddle is a tad bit high and that you are putting extra emphasis in pushing with the toes and calf muscles ?? :? Also, remember that on race day, the...

Portentous, you could be right. I had water during the first run and during T1, but that was about 20 min before I had the gel. I didn't think I'd need the gel at all. I'm wondering if dehydration in the days leading up to the race could also be a factor? I was not as careful as I should have been w...

Thanks for your replies, everyone. I'm pleased to have gotten this race in this summer, even if it wasn't a tri. Now I just have to deal with having so badly wanted that triathlon to happen this summer, and not having it happen. Wasaga Beach, Guelph Lake and Owen Sound are all too close in time and ...

I woke up with my toes so pointed at such an angle as to be the envy of ballerinas everywhere. Icy-hotted my calves back into letting my ankles bend a little.

I am sooo doing nothing today. (Unless you count laundry, vacuuming, washing floors and cleaning bathrooms a workout.)

Sounds like you had a great race, aside from the heat. Great job! Good work on getting the swimming down in so short a time.

Nice work! Now get some serious R&R. It is certainly well deserved and likely needed. Good luck in Louisville.

I got up dark and early this morning with a veritable flock of butterflies in my stomach. I missed my bus, which was early, but I got to the Harbourfront at a decent time anyway, and lined up with about 300 people along the Quay. I found and spoke to a lady who'd I'd briefly met at the EnduroSport O...

I've never had that kind of cramping from running or cycling before, just once while in a dead sleep when I was pregnant. :shock: :shock: oh, oh .. is congratulations in order ??? :lol: :wink: :oops: So, is a Duathlon easier than a Triathlon ?? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Unless, you have trained...