Go Bombers Go...

I had the worst sleep last night. All I kept thinking about my application for the TV show Mantracker. My mind was racing and I had trouble falling and keeping asleep. I downloaded and started filling in the application to be on the show earlier in the evening. Mantracker is a reality TV show and the premise is that you and a partner are put into the wilderness and Mantracker's job is to hunt you down. Your called the "Prey" and your given a map and compass and know where the finish line is and you have two days to get there. To win, you have to get there before Mantracker catches you and he doesn't even know where the finish line is. The guy is amazing, he can tell where you are from foot prints, bent grass, knocked over rocks, etc. My plan for Mantracker would be to use my Ironman fitness and rush to the end, out running the horses, and just one foot before the finish line, I'd turnaround and go back into the bush to torment Mantracker. My dream would be to steal his boots, horse or both when he sleeps. Or do anything else to bug him. He's a pretty intense guy and that would definitely piss him off.

I ended up getting less than 6 hours of sleep and was really tired when I got up. Rather than trying to go back to sleep, I had a hearty breakfast and went out for my long ride and brick run. I made sure I ate a lot because I didn't want to have another bonking episode like 2 weeks ago. On my bike I stayed relaxed, as per my new philosophy, and just tried to enjoy the ride and not put any time pressure on myself. I had to stop a few times and try to adjust my seat because I'm still getting chaffing in the groin and after a couple of hours my neck hurts. I think it is the bike fit and I'm going to take it back and get refit again for the third time. I figured it's best to do it before my first years' warranty wears out. The run felt great, finally. My back is feeling much better and my range of motion is much improved. As I ran, I felt light again.

John Barclay had a few tickets to the Hamilton Tiger Cats versus Winnipeg Blue Bombers football game tonight and invited Alice and I. It was fun, to bad the Bombers lost, er, I mean got beat up on. I don't know what's happened to the Blue Bombers, when I was a kid, every year they had a good team, now it seems like it's the opposite. After the game we met up with John's wife Heather and had dinner and some drinks. Alice and I really had a good time hanging with them. John has some incredible Police stories. John is a big time cop and has been on special task forces that have had to deal with murderers, serial killers, mafia, drug dealers, etc. I could listen to his stories all day long, they are world class. John's such a nice guy, I have a tough time visualizing him holding a gun to someones head and yelling at them that he'll blow their F****head off if they don't do something, which he's had to do a lot of times.

With John's Ironman background, police surveillance and k-9 experience, we are going to co-apply for the Mantracker show as a team. If we got selected, it could be fun. I've already spent 90 minutes filling in the application and then we have to make a 2 minute video of ourselves and send it in with the application.

Long Bike - 3:31:37 / 113.41 / 32.1 kph / 127 avg hr

Brick Run - 30:00 / 4.04 / 7:25 / 146 avg hr

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