The Start (unofficial) of the Journey

Today is the day.  I start blogging.  This has been a long time coming but never knew if I should do this, if it was going to be worth my time or what not.

I'm calling this post the start of the journey since I have decided that my official journey towards my first Ironman 70.3 starts today.  5 months and 16 days (or I seem to be preferring 167 days... maybe because of the bigger number... but I digress) separate me from this event.

Christmas holidays have been good and I start his journey a few kilos heavier then I was beforehand.  I'm not bothered as this will be good motivation as I get closer to my goals.  Besides, this was planned to keep me warmer during the long winter runs (or so I let myself believe).

So here I am with full of enthusiasm and motivation.  I'm pretty sure that my recent IT band issues have been somewhat resolved and that I can get back to training and increasing my volume.  I am coming out of a season of bike racing therefore will be gradually increasing my running - not like what I did in the fall that resulted in my IT issues. That famous training line stating : increase 10% per week... Yeah! Lesson learned the hard way.

In other exciting news, I am in the process of building my TT bike : a Prologue Aviation II.  Custom bike from Euro-Sports - local bike shop here in Ottawa. I am still undecided if I should be going with Di2 or stick with SRAM Red.  The coin is in the air.  Decision to follow shortly.

To finish off this first post, here's a brief overview of the plan for the start of the season :

• (Possibly) a winter Triathlon (TBD).
• Ottawa Physio 10k (April 21st)
• Ottawa Race Weekend (May 26th) 
• Triathlon du Mont-Tremblant (June 8th) 
• We'll see!