Training Bike and Wii...

Riding
Rushed home after work so I could get a ride in. Had two plate fulls of spinach and mushroom salad with some nice and bitter calamata olives. Watched some TV while stretching and digesting then got changed and headed out before the sunset. The skies were beautiful tonight as opposed to the past few evenings where it looked like scenes from Independence Day, sans the aliens... so we think, hahaha. Anywho, felt great tonight and kept the speed up whenever I could. 31km's, averaged about 27.5km/h, those last two hills were killers, I was feeling it on the Cherrydown hill, WHICH I HAVE to come back up if I want to get home.
Wii-ing
Locked the bike up, took a bath and then came down to play Wii fit which Amanda was just finishing off a 1060 steps step session. The damn Nintendo told me I'd gained weight since 6 days ago, I blame it on the 2 liters of water that was still in my belly. Luckily for my ego, I had just weighed myself upstairs and my body fat % had actually come down. What a system Nintendo had come around with, I've never had a system where I was still interested in after a year.

K, enough blabbing, signing off now. Going to pour myself a glass of Pinot Grigio and then off to bed. Cheers.

Nothing news and training...

Hey all,
Had a rainy weekend and barely got a chance to do anything other then mow the lawn and had a relaxing breakfast and coffee on the patio with Amanda and Tatlim on Sunday. Went to MEC to get myself a new saddle for the bike, hopefully it'll be comfortable. Went out for 15km this evening and it felt good for the short ride, we'll see if I'll get a chance to test it this Wednesday (if the rain holds off). Nothing exciting happening which is actually a good thing considering all that's been going on lately.
Taking the CRV into the body shop tomorrow and hopefully will get it back by the end of the week. We'll go get some glamour shots with it once it's fixed and prettied up.
p.s. Stay tuned for another blog that I will be writing, this one will be with Amanda's help. Don't ask me about it, it's top secret!
Signing off for the night, talk to yous soon.
Elson

Training and Tatlim's test results

RIDE
Just had a quick dinner, reloaded after my training ride. Did the same route as Monday and then finally had the legs to do two good hills. The way out was really windy, almost got blown off the bike when a gust came from the side while I was trying to unwrap my chocolate bar, had at least one hand on the handle bars after that. After the regular route, went and did the Olive hill, not too long but steep, at least to me, reached 57.5km/h on the way back down. Then did the Cherrydown hill to get home. Not a bad ride overall, 30k's, about an hour six, averaged 27km/h.

TATLIM
Got a call from the vet to let us know Tatlim's blood tests. They said her kidney and liver looks good but her white blood cells were a bit low, a sign of stress. They asked that we take her back next month to do another blood test to make sure everything is ok. She's eating her food and drinking fine but still not 100%, we'll have to keep an eye on her.

Tatlim to vet, TdeF...

Took Tatlim back to the vet today, third time in the last three weeks. They took some blood from her for testing, we're so proud of her, she behaved even after she was swept away to another room away from us for the blood test.





They shaved a patch on her neck where the blood was taken, we were so surprised that they took it from the front. We'll have to wait a few days for the test results to come back. We'll have to keep monitoring her diet and water intake.










TOUR DE LANCE!!!
What a stage at the Tour. Contador must have thought Lance was down and out for the count but he must have been surprised when Lance bridged a 40 second gap on the steepest part all by himself. What a few days in the mountains it will be, I'm still confident Lance will be in Yellow in Paris. Go Lance, and let's make it 9 next year. Keep your ears out this Thursday, what is this "American" partner Lance is talking about for next year. Good-bye Astana, hello _ _ _ _???

Training

Just came back from a training ride, caught the last of the sunlight. A little less than 26km, took about 56 mintues, averaged 27.6km/h. Did some full out sprints but just wanted to get some miles in the legs. Hopefully it won't rain on Wednesday and can do another 60k's, missed last week but the week before was great. It's nice to get a few days of riding in during the week and then a long ride (if not two) on the weekends.

Concert, Friends and Tatlim!

A bit late posting this one, we shot the vdo yesterday morning. The Live concert was pretty cool, it took a little bit to get into it but sure brought me right back to the 90's.



Just got word today that Aileen and Joreg have booked their tickets to come here in August, totally stoked. Can't wait for them to get here and we'll have a great vacation together, we miss her so much and I'm so looking forward to finally meeting Joreg. Woo-hoo!!!

Tatlim hasn't been feeling well lately and it's got us concerned. We've taken her to the vet and they suspect it's just a case of really bad hair ball, will have to keep an eye on it. She hasn't been too keen on her food since we took her in for her rabbies shot. Hope she'll come out of it and back to being herself soon.

Found It! Let's get ready to LIVE.

"Clowning around at Mark's farewell party"








Finally, after much running around, I found the hitch adapter that I was looking for. Went to a place earlier in the week to pick it up but they wanted to charge me $65. Picked one up tonight for $17 (even though it says $15 on-line, maybe it's Quebec pricing, hehehe...) HITCH REDUCER. Let me throw the bike rack on the CRV this weekend and go for a ride on the Waterfront Trail with Amanda. Stay close for those vdo blogs.

Tomorrow night, Amanda and I will be heading to Casino Rama to rock with Live. Let's hear the dolphines cry until we're too tired to stand.

New Hair Do and Car Update

Got a new hair cut today after work. Tried a new place @ 7 and Leslie called The Edge. Wow, was the dude ever talkative. I was thinking "you better stop talking and pay attention to cutting my hair". It turned out OK, I'll post a pic tomorrow when I get a chance to style it my way.
Went to show the CRV to Dent Tech http://www.denttech.ca/, going to arrange for the hail dents to be fixed in the next week or two. I'll comment on the job once it's complete. They are working on 200+ cars for a local dealer that got hammered by the same storm and seem to be reputable specializing in this type of work.









"Fishing contest at Amanda's little cousin's 6th birthday party. Ya, I kicked ass and won the prize. I used the Crouching Kowloon fishing technique "

**Make sure you guys catch Lance this weekend as he will start his week long attack to secure his crown as the best TdeF rider of all time.

Bad luck or just chance... wrong place, wrong time

"recap of what went down"

July 12th, 09 - Ok, here is what went down yesterday. Picked up the car, went to Amanda's little cousin's 6th birthday party, went to the grocery store to pick up some nice cheeses to go with some wine, went to the LCBO to pick out our wines... here is where the skies turned black, literally. We were in the LCBO and right after we paid, we looked outside and it looked like a scene from The Day After Tomorrow. We couldn't see 5 feet past the building. There was a TORNADO that had blown right through where we were, thousands of hail stones came pouring down as if the skies had opened up. Our first thought "WTF, our NEW CAR!!!!". As soon as the storm slowed down, we sprinted through a foot of water and ice, with rain that must have been close to freezing drenching our clothes. We then drove home only to see more damage the storm had done to the neighbourhood, a house down the road even had part of their tree on top of their car. IT WAS INSANE. Sure enough, our car was damaged by the storm, it is full of dents from the marbel size hail stones. We checked the house, everything seems intact but what a day, what a shitty day after all the excitement.

Picked up our CRV

July 11th, 09 (continued) - Picked up our CRV.

"taking a look on the inside"

Going to pick up our new CRV!

July 11th, 09 - Amanda and I were so excited to pick up our new car. We woke up, got ready and then off we went to pick up our new CRV. We were totally stoked and picked up the car without any issues...