August I have Ironman Canada, assuming it doesn’t get deferred for the 3rd time lol.
In the leadup I have 2 halfs, Oliver half in june and Victoria half in july. basically all should be about 6 weeks apart from each other.
Both are smaller local events.
MAYBE a sprint first weekend of may if it happens 
I’m doing short course only this 2022 season (except for a 10-60-10 duathlon), but I just wanted to make a point that matters to the world: Nate Pearson and Tim O’Donnell have identical voices.
Cheers.
All this talk about swimming frequency has been making me really jealous!
While there are lots of great things about spending the winter XC skiing, it means I’m getting in maybe 1 or 2 swims a week, 2 or 3 bikes, and maybe only 2 or 3 runs in any given week. Triathlon is hard enough with 3 sports, throwing in a 4th really makes the math hard, lol.
10 miles?!
This sounds way more panful than a 70.3
managing 3 is super hard…
I am down to 2 rides per week (1 wo, 1 long - 2+ hrs - z2 ride) and 2 swims (2200-3200y each), but I am running 5 times a week, including 1 OTB run (after the long ride) and one MLR (after the bike wo)
In a few week we will be adding a shorter swim but continuous, instead of the usual Mondays off. I just realized I am hitting between 8:30 and 9:30 hr a week, with one day off. Back when I was just running every day I was doing about the same time with no time off (except for injuries).
Waking up at 4:30 everyday sucks tho.
Nah man, we’ve got the metric system, we wouldn’t know what the f__k “10 miles” is.
It’s 10k-60k-10k. The runs combined are a little short of a half marathon. Painful but, unfortunately, manageable.
I can’t think in imperial in the pool, on the bike, imperial not metric & on foot, metric rules my brain.
I have this exact schedule on my TR calendar right now. 
I haven’t signed up for the Oliver race yet though (not that it’s open yet)–good to see its actually coming back as I pencilled it in well before Dynamic Race Events came out of hibernation and confirmed it. Unsure if I’ll end up doing it or not since three trips out to BC from Sask is a lot, especially if gas is $1.77/L!
Born and raised in 'Murica and I am a 193cm 85kg triathlete that uses the metric system (almost) exclusively. It just makes the math so much easier for our sport to be honest. If I’m running 5:00/km that’s a 25min 5k pace. Easy. 8:00/mi is 8min times 3.1something which comes to 24 plus 8 times .1something but need to convert that seconds down so…24:something_big or 25:something_small.
All our races, and most legs aside from some swims are easier to do pacing math in metric as well.
750m vs 0.45mi? - Metric wins
1500m vs 0.91mi? - Metric wins
1930m vs 1.2mi - Imperial just edges
3860m vs 2.4mi - Imperial just edges
20km vs 12.4mi - Metric wins
40km vs 24.9mi - Metric wins
90km vs 56mi - Metric wins
180km vs 112mi - Metric wins
5km vs 3.1something mi- Metric wins
10km vs 6.2something mi- Metric wins
21.1km vs 13.1mi - Wash
42.2km vs 26.2mi - Wash
The only time I use imperial is in the pool because, well I’m not going to be doing 5x91m
Except @JoeX (I think) that uses a 33m pool and does 5 x 99m 
I signed up for both Oliver and IMC before covid, so I’m on a 3 year training block for both, hahaha
It’s so annoying.
But it’s nice to have a pool longer than 25m.
As someone who just really enjoys sports in general, I’m not sure whether triathlon is a good or a bad thing. On one hand I get to do 3 sports on the regular, on the other hand I have no room to do anything else because I’m doing 3 sports on the regular. Where does rugby season go? Why is long ride day the same as long sail day? How about cheesy Zumba workouts?
Oh yeah, I used to play tennis and love it, and I went to a tennis camp recently, twice, where I didn’t play any tennis because I was too busy training for triathlons.
(The reason I went to the camp is that it was a family thing with sports activities for the kids pretty much all day).
In the uk on current conversion, we pay $2.48 Canadian (£1.45) a litre for petrol 
Yeah, I would have to pay $2.48 Canadian to buy 1 liter at £1.45 (It would cost you 85p to buy 1 litre Canadian @ $1.45 since the pound is worth 1.7x).
From my experiences in Europe and the UK, everything is priced as I would expect it to be here for the most part - - it’s just way more expensive when I have to think about the currency exchange rate! 
The last time I was in Vancouver, I was getting $2.4 to the £1. I can’t drive so My uncle was paying the petrol. That’s $0 a lite for me! Uncles are good like that 
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He did talk like a taxi driver on speed though.
The big difference though is that with 15-20L you can travel across just about the whole UK, lol. In Saskatchewan that’s just enough to get to the next town.
Haha, yeah a trip for me out to the Okanagan in BC is like 1300km, one way…
I’ve officially decided that my 2022 training montage song is going to be “Champion” by The Roots.
2021 I recycled my 2020 song because of lack of racing, “Throne” by Bring Me the Horizon.
2019 I had “Dance Macabre” by Ghost.
I find having a “theme song” for a season is great for those days when I need a little extra motivation or before a hard workout. Then come raceday it’s an amazing pump up track. Helps you remember all the hard work you put in.
Anybody else do something similar?