It is hard to believe I drove back to Calgary from Edmonton yesterday, packed, trained lightly, and then boarded a plane for Mexico yesterday. But here I am, so I guess it's happened. First, the second race at CanWest. I felt the 1500m had a lot of the same qualities as the 1000m; I wasn't as mentally committed as I would have liked, yet my legs felt good. I was relegated to the second of the three heats, which didn't help my motivation terribly. I took the race out and lead it for about 300m, and then sat back behind four others. With about 400m to go, my team mate Matt Cloutier made a move and the three in front of me didn't respond. I eventually passed them, but never could reach Matt who had a really great finishing kick. He got a best time in the race so he was quite pleased. I ran about 2.5 seconds off my best, so I wasn't super happy. The good news was that I recovered really quickly, just as in after the 1000m, so I think my body is getting into the right stages in terms of adaptation to high quality stress.
I am in Playa Del Carmen now, which is about 45 km from Cancun. The first World Cup of the season starts here thursday. My coach and were to fly through Toronto from Calgary on a red eye flight and then on to Cancun. We were flying standby as well, as it is cheaper. Yeah, it's a gamble too, but our funding keeps getting reduced so we keep looking for creative ways to get to meets. The Calgary - Toronto flight filled up, so we made the last minute decision to haul our butts to Edmonton for its flight to Toronto. As you can imagine, driving back to the city I started the day in, did not put a smile on my face. Anyways, it did work out, we are here now and settled into a small hotel where we will stay for 2 nights prior to moving into the competition hotel. The rest of the team will be here Wednesday so I have a bit of time to settle in.
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