Here is the link for the Ride on Saturday.

First off I would like to say thank-you ladies for the card about Mama and Mowgli. We really appreciated your kind words.

Second. Thank-you for a great ride last night. No matter how many times you do horseshoe bay it never gets easier. Especially riding iwth you ladies. I always have to push so hard adn for that I thank you.

Here is the link to the ride on Saturday. I really hope it works. I did send you the link in your
e-mail but let me know if it doesn't work and I will copy out the route for you.

My house, Zero Ave out to the yellow barn

ok doesn't work!

my house, left on 203, right on Douglas, left on 204, right on Fraser, right on 216th, left on zero, left on townline rd, right on huntingdon (turns into vye), left on potter (follow around), left on angus campbell rd, right on s.parallel rd, follow to the yellow barn and turn around.. just over 113km

Morning

I had a great run yesterday evening. Miranda wasn't feeling so well so I waited to run unitl after dinner. I ran from my house out to glover road and then out to 64th. Nice tail wind there and crazy headwind on the way back made for a longer second half. Ah.. what can you do. But I did tweek my right knee a little bit. It felt like it was locking up. See what happens with that.

Since my schedule doesn't say we are riding tonight I think I am going to come home and workout here. Last weekend was a right off so this is only sort of a rest week for me.

Have a good day everyone.

Cypress Mountain...done!

  

Angela & I had a fabulous Good Friday ride in the sunshine!! to Whytecliff Park with the plan of heading to the second lookout on Cypress. I rode Precious (she likes sunshine) and she climbed like a dream :) I love her. Just not the saddle. Yet. Anyhow, after whipping by the first lookout thinking "eep! i have never ridden this far up" we climbed up towards the second lookout. Neither of us had any clue as to how many more kms we would have to climb. Angela mentioned something about it "being steeper". Excellent! I arrived at the Cypress Mountain Picnic Area and decided this must be the second lookout. Angela rolled up and declared it was not and that we needed to keep going. I encouraged her to pull over and re-consider as without the PILES OF SNOW it could very well be a lookout. Then...I said we should just keep going! I had not spent the time previous trying to keep up with Coach, so my legs were feeling quite fresh ;) So, off we went. The snowbanks on the side of the road kept getting higher and higher. It was awesome. And steep in bits. I looked down at one point to see my cadence was at 35. Hello! At one point, I could see the chairlifts and black dots shooting down the hill. GTs. We stopped one more time to re-group and then we rode to the downhill area parking lot. I was so stoked! We took the accompanying snaps. Had a snack in the cafeteria. And then began the descent. It was damn cold! The rest of the ride was uneventful and much warmer :)

Holy CRAP Lana!!

Okay so tonight we had a brik workout, and this morning a swim workout. I was sure it was shaping up to be a slow ride/run, but NOOOOOOO!!! Not according to Lana and Angela, hammerheads on the bike on Marine Drive!! They both rocked it down to Kullahun, and if I do say so myself both bums are looking great! (I was drafting like a mofo off them!!)

Then... the run.. so Lana!! She just guns it! NICE WORK LANA!!! Unstoppable!!! Kept a fantastic pace the whole time!

Nice work TFNB!!

M.

What a Great Night!

To start...today I actually got to the pool for a swim after work. It
wasn't long at all..to many people crammed into a lane. So I did 6*50m, 7*100m, 6*50m.... See not that long but I worked hard. So I thought that the ride/run tonight would blow... but it didn't.


The ride was good. Stayed with Miranda and Angela until Spanish Banks. They got ahead of me and it took me from the top of Spanish Banks to just past 16th ave and Marine Drive to catch them. Then down to Kalahun we hammered. Took turns drafting and just kept pushing the pace. It was killer. Teh ride back up to 16th was nothing exciting but then there was the hill. Normally I am going so slow but today I had a really high cadence for me and I pushed all the way to the top. The picture, that's Levi...That's what I want to be, aero and fast!

The run was pretty steller to!! I think we ran for about 27 minutes and man, I pushed hard. I just realized earlier this week that when I now run my feet actually are both off the ground. I don't shuffle anymore!! YEAH. I just had a killer run for me and I don't think I've pushed myself that hard before for the whole run. So, next time we run.. I call the stroller!! :)

Thanks again Ladies for a great night. Have a great weekend with your Easter adventures! See you next Wednesday.

Lana

Finally!!

Well, it has taken me 2 weeks to figure out how to log back in again!! I de "cookied" my computer and it kicked me out of our tfnb login!

Now, I guess I better have something to say!

Well let's start with a race report, tfnb rocked the party at the UBC Tri!! Lana, ass kicker Kuyvenhoven looked serious on the run as I saw here at 4.5km ringing it to the finish line, Michelle Dig Deep Daniels, was a podium award winner with her "precious" out there running twice!! And Angela "atta girl" Mccarthy was a show stopper on her long Olympic distance race, kicking it in to high gear on that long swim! I had a fun and fast day myself, with my first podium finish ever, here comes 2009 Ladies!!

This past weekend we all did the 100km Pacific Populaire! It was a gorgeous sunny day out there, and we all managed to pull it off without any problems! I had some very tired legs after Saturdays run, and felt very heavy for the ride, but was happy I did it! I realize how great it feels to increase only 10% and how I feel the additional volume both mentally and physically.

This coming weekend is Easter weekend, so TFNB is splitting up for the weekend workouts. We will have to resume next weekend for our recovery week!

MOST IMPORTANTLY.........

I have ordered my Guru, and have placed my full deposit on my tangerine dream today! I am sooo excited!

Look forward to tonights Brik Workout everyone!

M and Prez

SUN!!!

Today was a great day. I think I had the best run of the season so far. I am pretty sure it had alot to do with the sun. Started in a long sleeved shirt and about 25 minutes into the run I took of the long sleeve and just ran in my tank. I think it was only about 6 degrees but it felt alot warmer. And I will totally use the fact that I am from Alberta so that automatically makes me more able to not feel the cold. I am sticking to that fact ladies. The prairies make you tough! Not so much but it sort of sounds good.

We started the run from A&M's, over Burrard bridge, along hte seawall past athletes village, under burrard, past kits pool, to Alma, up to 8th and back to M&A's place. My run was 1:51 which was a few minutes longer then some because well, I am a bit slower and I am alright with that.

Running by kits pool was great. I really cannot wait for it to open. I don't know how peter will feel about me spending another night in town. But when a girl wants to swim outside what is she to do??

Well that is all I feel like writing. I just wanted to let you girls know that I had a great run today and I am excited about tomorrow. We just have to make sure to get a group shot before we all head off.