Weekend Review

Well, the weekend in the Capital Region turned out to be a pretty great one on the training and weather front... Not to mention some pretty exciting happenings for a kid from Black Creek!

Let’s discuss that first. That kid from Black Creek, BC; that butt-kicking cousin I’ve mentioned before ~ Cam Levins.

London’s calling!

Cam ran an amazing 13:18.47 in the 5000m on Friday at the Mt. Sac Relays, hitting the Canadian ‘A+’ Standard and pretty much solidifying himself a spot on the Canadian Olympic team!

Needless to say, everyone in the family is super proud and his Mom and Dad are freaking ecstatic! I'm pretty sure flights are being booked to London as we speak.

Canadian Running Magazine sums it up better here.

You can watch the race here. Take the 16mins or so and watch - it is totally worth it!
 

I think this photo says it all!
(shamelessly stolen from Cam’s Facebook page)

Other than that, my training this weekend was great – albeit very very slow in comparison, haha.

Saturday’s long(ish) bike was pretty uneventful, which was actually kind of nice. Only one flat tire (it is the 'year of the flat' in our household) for Shane, combined with a nice mix of rolling hills, pancake flat trails and sunshine and it was done in no time. Not to mention – no bonking! Yay!

The notable highlight of the weekend was encountering a couple of black bears on our long run on Sunday morning. It scared the crap out of me, but it was kind of neat at the same time, especially because we never really got closer than about 200m from them. I did however, try to stay a couple steps ahead of Shane for the rest of the run.


Look really really far in the distance. I swear there are two bears in this photo, haha.

After that, it was time to chill out on the deck in our “Zero Gravity Chairs” overlooking the pond with the newest issue of Canadian Running Magazine. Not bad, not bad at all.

Look closely and you can even see the start of the bike short tan line.
Does that mean spring has officially arrived?