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Introducing the Medal Marquee

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

medal_marqueeIt finially happens. You medal in your race and all the hard work over the past months has paid off. You proudly accept your medal at the post race ceremony and maybe even wear it during the drive home.

Once you get home what do you do with it? Hang it on a hook of some sort, keep it on a coffee table as a conversation piece (why not, at the cost to enter a race now days, you earned it) or throw it in a drawer, never to be seen again.

medal_marquee_02Now you can display your well earned hardware in a sleek case that looks great on a self, desk or nightstand. The highly polished acrylic case is designed to allow a quick change when you bring home your latest award.

You can customize the colour of the case or add a graphic background to compliment the medal.

Now you can make your medal more that just a medal. Make it your marquee.

More photos to come.

Great Swim Workout

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

nav_can_poolI have to admit that I am not the best swimmer but I have been working on it. I’ve been swimming at least two times per week since September and I was seeing some little improvements.

That was until Easter weekend.

Since then I’ve been struggling. My strokes per length were going up and my 100 m time were going up.

I was really getting frustrated because my running and cycling were progressing just fine.

I tried to get some help from the good people at slowtwitch.com but in the end it was not much help.

A light at the end of the tunnel

Today’s workout gave me some hope. I did a steady warm up of 300 m followed by 10/50′s with 10 sec rest. I was keeping a solid 23 strokes per length and 55 sec per 50 m. The main set of 10/100′s with 20 sec rest went well with my times staying around 2:00/100 m. A nice 200 m warm down finished of the workout.

I was very happy with my day in the pool and now have hope for my first triathlon of the year in Oka, Quebec on Sunday, May 31st.

Tomorrow I get my wetsuit as a little motivation for the next two weeks.

I now have hope.