I Heart Canada Day in Vancouver

Canada Day in Vancouver rocks! We got things started yesterday morning with the open water swim races at Sasamat Lake out in Port Moody. While I did the 2 km race a couple of years ago, I made this year's race one of my stepping stones towards Ironman by signing up for the 4 km. I'm not quite sure why I felt the need to sign up for 4 km of swimming, but Pants says it has something to do with this cat ...


Whatever the reasons, I waded trepidatiously into the lake just before 8:30 yesterday morning and after a great deal of flailing around and probably swimming in a zig zag pattern that would have made Charlie Brown's shirt jealous, I got through the two laps in 1:13:28. I was hoping for under 1:15, so I was pretty happy, but definitely worn out. That's an awfully long way to swim - especially when you swim it hard knowing that you don't have to bike afterwards!

Once we got back home from the lake, we did end up getting on our bikes for a bit of a hill repeat workout. While Amy ended up working a lot harder than me because I flatted and skipped out on one of the repeats, it was still nice to get out and ride for an hour or so.

Following up our ride, we treated ourselves to big wonderful burgers from Vera's before walking down to spend most of the afternoon watching the Yaletown Grand Prix where Amy (other Amy in LETC) and Martina kicked butt finishing 1-2 in the 4.5 km running race and then watching Rachel have a great race in the women's pro bike race. We also say Dave run a great race in the men's 4.5 km and enjoyed watching two of the pro men lap the entire field in the last race of the day.

After all of that, we were exhausted. But what a great way to spend the holiday. Couldn't really ask for much better out here!