Week 12, Day 2 – 6

Tuesday was a great day for a bike ride. Since I need to take it easy on my ankles, I wasn’t terribly upset that we didn’t get the brick in, and “only” went for a ride. Herring Cove loop – approx. 1.5 hrs. Wednesday, swam 2000M, no riding, my legs needed a rest. Thursday took … Read more

Week 12, Day 1

Holy crap! 12 weeks to race day! Yikes! So, I started this week off right, with a swim as scheduled. I opted to ride to and from the pool, where I swam 1500m, which gave me a total of about 50-60 mins. riding time.The sun was beckoning, and I’m afraid if I didn’t ride, I … Read more

Week 13, Day 7

So I took a rest week to let my tender ankles heal up. Unfortunately didn’t even make it to the pool, was just too darned tired on Monday, and Wednesday was written off for some reason as well.Sunday was a riding day. We packed up the Chariot, Mountain bikes and the girlies and headed for … Read more

Brendan’s recount of the E2C

I am blaming it on the winter. While planning my races for this year I discovered this “Adventure Race”. It was quite an adventure, but in reality it is a rogaine. So, the day of, we started off a little late. Being rookies nobody realized how much this was going to add to our challenge. … Read more

Ryan’s perspective on the weekend :)

Hi everyone-The photos and most of text is taken from Trish’s Blog, and then I edited it for my perspective. Blue and the photo captions are mine and the black is Trish. (thank’s Trish, I didn’t feel like typing it all out!!) At the start of our little adventure – nice and dry… That only … Read more

New adventure: The Rogaine

So, four friends decide to enter a team in the local rogaine event. E2C Eco-Endurance Challenge, a fundraising and awareness event for Halifax Regional Search & Rescue. Essentially it’s on orienteering challenge, where you attempt to locate as many checkpoints as possible in a set period of time. There was an 8-hour challenge, and a … Read more