Biking with "The Grip"

It's been a great weekend with Amber, yesterday we took a road trip to Banff to catch up with the trailtrash group and complete our first trail run of the year. Unfortunately, they took off a little early an we just missed them, we ended up doing our own run around the golf course for an hour (we both were not in the mood for a three hour trail run anyway). With the shorter run we were able to spend some time in the hot springs and have a nice lunch at Earls.

Today we were back in the pool in the morning and I felt pretty good. I spent some time warming up 2km, and only pushed another 1km, 3km in one hour and feeling good throughout. After a nap in the afternoon we were on the bike for 90mins and had the privilage of seeing Mark Allen (The Grip) win the 1991 Ironman in a classic battle with Greg Welch. AD received our joint Christmas gift yesterday, coverage of all the Ironman world championships from 1991 to 2006. It was great to see such a dominant athlete stamp his third win on a race that he respects so much. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the DVD's to keep me motivated on the trainer and ready to qualify for the race myself.