A large box arrived at my office today, it was all our old video tapes converted to DVD's. When I got them home the first thing we all did was start to watch them. They included video's from 1986 to present. They include births, birthday's, Christmas's, family get togethers, kids concerts and even my first Ironman, Marathon, my second half Ironman and the 1989 Triathlon Manitoba Race season. I started my training about an hour later because I got caught up watching the videos with Alice and the kids. They are a blast to watch. The kids were so cute, especially Alyssa. Reid never stops talking now, Alyssa never stopped talking then.
I finally pushed myself out the door for my run at around 7:30 pm which is a little later than I would have liked considering I had 3 hours of training to do. My body is going through some weird stuff right now, it seems stressed. I think because I'm eating better my body is starting to lose weight and that is putting stress on my body or it's because I went to bed at 11:30 pm and didn't fall asleep until 3:30 am, or a combination. I found that the first half of the run was just under a 8 minute pace and then it was hard to maintain the pace while keeping my heart rate below 135 bpm. I noticed was sweating much more than normal. When I got home an hour later the family was still laughing and watching the video's.
I got everything ready for the bike ride as quickly as possible and I grabbed about 10 of the video's to watch on my laptop while I rode. There was some real gems that I had no idea they even existed. The first was my very first Ironman in 1987. My Mom, Dad, Grandma, Sister Bev and Brother Barret were there. They did a great job video taping it. It was amazing to see the difference from how an Ironman was then to now and how different I looked. The big differences were that there was a lot less people, I think we had 600 in the race. When people came out of the water or off the bike onto the run, no one hurried. No line to get on and off your bike and very grass roots. It was the golden age of triathlon. I remember at the time it was a BIG deal to do an Ironman and very few people were sure if they would even survive and finish, only a small few raced it. It was kinda like climbing Mount Everest in the early days, now lots of people have done it.
Then they had the video of my first Marathon in 1986, which to date is still my PR at 3:07:57. And they had my second Marathon the following year that didn't go that well. There was tons of footage. I also had a video of my second half Ironman, incredible footage, especially on the bike when they drove beside me and we had brief conversations about how I was feeling. There was probably only 50 people in that race. The final one was of the Triathlon Manitoba season when I was Vice President and we got into the Manitoba Sports Federation. It had pictures and video's of some of the races, again, it seemed like there was under 50 people at each race. There was a lot of good video of my brother Bob and my good friend Rich Sohor and I saw faces I haven't seen for a while and even forgot.
As I rode and watched, I lost track of time. I was supposed to do a 2 hour ride and when I looked down it was already 2:07. I'm glad I had the video's, it made time fly. Today's ride was like tonight's earlier run, my body was not as strong as normal and I was sweating much more than normal, so I just rode in a lower gear to keep the heart rate under 135 bpm. I noticed that my mileage from last year can't be compared to this year. Last year I made a guess on mileage, based on effort based on outside riding. This year I have the speedometer. On the trainer, for some reason, I cycle slower than outside. When I finished and was stretching I noticed the biggest little blister on my pinkie toe. I think I got it from walking a lot in Vegas with my new dress shoes. I drained it, lots of Pusey yellow liquid...Ewe...but of course I made the family look at it just to gross them out.
Mod Run - 1:03 / 7.52 miles / 8:23 miles / under 135 bpm
Mod Bike - 2:07 / 35.26 miles / 16.6 mph / under 135 bpm
Weight 183.4 / 22.5 BMI
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