It was great to see so many people out and about this past week. Pascale Savard completed a Spartan Challenge. Luc Lapensee did the Perth double distance duathlon. France Girard completed the Perth Triathlon and even did an open water swim at Britannia! Coach Julia also did the Perth Tri but opted for swim strength instead. Julie McInnes set out to walk 10km a day and complete 500km of walking. I was so happy to be outside when she walked by my house the day she finished the 500km!
Pascale Savard took a break from sewing masks to complete the
Spartan Challenge!
With the Tremblant Half Iron challenge coming up, Anita Taylor and Glen Paradis were busy getting their long bricks done. Sophie Dagenais and Debi Zaret did the Triathlon Canadian National cycling series last week on Fulgaz and placed 8th and 10th overall on the Stanley Park course.
It was nice to see Louise Lewis-James back on the roads running and in the woods cycling again. Congratulations to Anna and Marc Belanger, and Robert Browne and Jenn Kellar on their new homes and welcome to my neighborhood! Can't wait until we can all meet-up in the Pond (which, sadly, is still closed).
It was great to hear from Brad Vlaming this week that the shoutout from Steve Swanwick worked! Brad jumped back onto Zwift on Thursday night! It was also great to welcome new member Bruno Baril from Petawawa onto the Thursday night virtual community rides. Welcome back to Ottawa to Janet Whitley and her family who just drove back from Salt Spring Island where they took shelter from the pandemic for the past few months. It was nice to see teammates Claude Pilette and Debi Zaret out swimming and running together in Tremblant last week. I saw that France St-Denis got her canoe out on the water and enjoyed some paddling time!
Debi and Claude met up for a physical distance run and a swim in Mt Tremblant
Brenda Ross and her husband did a really cool challenge this weekend
ULTRA MAY CHALLENGE!!
6 hours of running/6 hours of cycling in 48 hours.
Friday
8 pm run/9 pm bike
Saturday
4 am run/5 am bike
12 noon trail run/1 pm bike
8 pm run/9 pm bike
Sunday
4 am run/5 am bike
12 noon trail run/1 pm bike
All workouts were 1 hour in duration
All workouts were outside
Night rides were on a road bike
Day rides on a triathlon bike
Runs were mixed. Some trails, most road
Total kms completed
55.6km running
145.3km biking
I love the accountability and the structure of the Virtual 70.3 Half Ironman training program. I don't think I would have gotten this far without the program. The accountability is huge for me!
Deborah Jackman
My coach Kevin Willis is amazing. His swim practices have been a real game-changer for me. A great communicator regardless of your swim level. The whole club is supportive of everything you do. You don't need to be an Ironman to benefit from their programs. 5 stars all around!!! - Denise Pittuck
I just wanted to thank you and your team (Gabi! Brenda! Maggie! Dawn!) for making last weekend's event so amazing. I had tried to do a try-a-tri on my own last summer, and the experience was night and day.
Even though I didn't make every virtual session, I felt so prepared... I knew where to go for information, and I knew I had a team of people (coaches and our beginner tri group!) who were all there to support me.
It was interesting to watch Eric train on his own (without access to the TrainingPeaks workouts and without the weekly meetings to ask questions and learn more about proper form and race-day stuff). When we left on Sunday, he looked at me and was like "we're DEFINITELY doing the training with Julia if we decide to go for the olympic distance, right?".
So glad to have found this club and looking forward to many more triathlons in the near future!!! Tai Teleso
