Going for your gold

Well after a week of not doing a lot of exercise I finally got off my butt on Sunday and went for a really short jog!  Hurray for baby steps, this is where its been all heart.  Its hard to stay motivated when you naturally an inactive person and you've been slacking all week, okay for most of my life, so for me to kick it back into gear really takes a lot of effort on my part.  Its also hard mentally when you go for a jog and you feel like you have gone back to the beginning.  My runs are shorter and I need a lot more breaks then I did a couple months ago. 

I am a big fan of the Olympics and am an ardent Canadian so while I am watching the Olympics I think about their goals and their dedication to those goals. They too have distractions of life, those days you feel blah, or feeling under the weather.  There are those weeks where its bitterly cold or you just can't get in the training time you need.  I am so not in their league, but when you watch them on the slopes you can feel a piece of the blood - sweat - n - tears that it took for them to get there. 

To know that they spend their life in many cases working to this one goal; that one moment, in many cases only 30 seconds of actual time to show the world that they are the best.  Its fantastic to watch them when they take the gold, and its heart breaking to see them when they make a mistake, quite often a minor one, but when you are competing against other elite athelites that is all it takes to end their run.  

In a few months I too have the goal of biking 200km in one weekend, to bring awareness to prostate cancer and the battles that those who have cancer must fight.  They don't have the luxury if failure, to them failure means death. There is no second chances.  Please help me bring awareness to the affects of Prostate Cancer and support me in my goals of biking to Vancouver and my Ride to Concquor Cancer.

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There was a dream

I think back to my childhood to the many trips we made into BC from Alberta and have very fond memories of seeing cyclists who were doing the trip via bike. I would say "I want to do that when I grow up".

I was always a kid on my bike, I would cycle everywhere in FortMcMurray as a kid. In Jr High I had on many occasions biked from BeaconHill to school in Thickwood, which I am sure was an oddity for most people as I never ever saw another bike whist I treked off to school or home. Now it could have been the hills at either and as they give cars a challenge.

We moved to Sherwoord Park when I was in gr 10 and I biked all over Sherwoord Park and on one occasion in the middle of summer, on a rather hot day I rode accross Edmonton and back.

Well I grew up many years ago and still bike frequently, but have never ever even attempted to realize my dream.

Over my 20's I became robust 300lb guy and it was only near the end of my 20's that I brought that down to a respectable 230lb. Which at that time with a new baby daughter a road trip never fit into my life.

Last summer I started jogging, I was back up to 250 lb, and the jogging nearly daily was really make me feel good, to feel energized, and one day in August I was sharing how as a kid I used to dream about biking to Vancouver. The next day I told her I was going to do it next year.

So my goal is to bike from Calgary to Vancouver the first 2 weeks of August 2010.