New Post.....already!?!?!?

No surprise.....this post has something to do with my training.

I've been working out on the bike alot lately. It's taken over my life and has beat out running as my primary form of exercise. I had great quads from running the marathon, so my body was shocked with the sudden hamstring and calf work outs. Anyways, with only 3 weeks of biking the back half of my legs equaled the strength of disintegrating marathon muscles in the front half of my legs.

The problem is that our company had a 'fun walk/run' on Thursday. Being a slightly competitive person, I wanted to run with the lead pack....which consisted of two guys. Anyways, I haven't run this fast in about 4 months and my quads were given a nice little shock. I got really stiff, knotty muscles as a result.

GOOD NEWS, however! I've been seeing a new chiropractor (with a cute receptionist) who performs Graston Technique. She uses custom made stainless steel bars to work out the little knots in my soft tissue. It hurts like hell, but it has cured (hopefully) my IT band problems. I hadn't run more than 5km until my first session, where I comfortably ran 10km.

Tomorrow will be another test for my leg, as I run the Melissa's 10km race in Banff, Alberta.

A little unrealted:

Here's a shot from my latest engagement session with Desiree and Kevin

The life of a working man

Alot has changed since my last post. I've started a new full time job working for Suncor Energy in Calgary. As a new grad, I'm part of Suncors Engineering in Training (EIT) program. Essentially, I'll be rotating through 4 different work terms with the requirement of a field position in the first two years. My current position is on the central engineering team on the Voyageur Upgrader Project.

Alright! enough about work!

I'm excited for the year! My good friend is getting married in less than a month and for the first time I'll be on the other side of the camera.

I joined UCTC again and now that I'm homework free, I have more time to commit to training. My legs have been really sore this week, but when i stop to think about it, it's obvious why. I went for a 1.5 hour ride on saturday (the last day of good weather!) Sunday I ran 10km for the first time in 4 months. And monday was another spin practice with the club.

My name is in the 'overseas lottery' for the London Marathon. I find out in October if I won a spot for the late-April race. The exciting thing about London is that it's one of the top 5 marathons in the world. I recently read an article about why marathoning isn't HUGE in canada. The biggest race is Vancouver with about 3000 runners...i may have my facts wrong, but i think that includes 10km, half, 8km, walkers as well. I think the London marathon has about 10 000 people running, and the course is LINED with cheering supporters. I hope i get a spot!

The new Canon 5D Mark II came out which I'm pretty pumped about.

oh yeah, I also went to Australia and New Zealand for a month which deserves a separate post.

That's it for now :)