January has been a success

January is almost over and for training its been a great month.  I started biking the first week of January, the last 2 weeks of January I biked every day to work doing 150km.  I am definitely getting stronger in the legs and faster in my biking (I think).  I have been biking from Souldice park to down town (8.4km each way), I have been wanting to tackle the hills in Cochrane but they are still quite daunting and after biking all week I think its good to let my legs recuperate. 

So my goal for February barring the expected and dreaded winter blast is to start biking from COP to downtown.  http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/ab/calgary/392126470803483132 is a link to my planned route.  It will be just under 14 km each way so I'll be doing 140km a week, nearly doubling my distance and adding a small hill into my training.  First week I want to just do the extended route once, but as the month progresses its my intention to add 1 extra day of the longer route each week, until I am doing the longer route as my standard route.  As an added bonus the new route will burn about 700 Calories, not as great as running but that's okay. 

Sadly my running has been languishing, I have really not put a lot of effort into my running, so I've decided that starting next week any day I don't bike the extended distance I will run at lunch instead.  Now this is also contingent on no winter storms, blizzards, or getting side swiped with a flu. 

I am still very pumped about my bike ride trip this summer and think I will be in very good form to accomplish it.  There is fund raiser for Cancer this spring in Alberta called "The Ride to Conquer Cancer" which Cenovus is participating in, its 200km over 2 days and I think this could be a great practice form me as well as help raise awareness for Cancer. Now this event is not specifically for Prostate Cancer, but I think its still a great event to raise money and awareness for Cancer.

Sign up today on The Ride to Conquer Cancer Website:
http://ab10.conquercancer.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_now