Donkey, amputation, Floripa

Remember at the end of last week that the plan for this week added up to nearly thirteen hours of training? The total this week was nearly eleven hours. See if you can spot where the plan fells short:

Swimming: ZERO m, ZERO minutes!!!!

Bike: 206.4 km

Run: 47km, with a long run of 19km yesterday.

Hmm, notice any weak spots in the training plan? Yep, still having trouble working the swim into the schedule with the new job schedule. Need to work out an alternate arrangement this week to get some pool time in. On the bright side both the ride and run schedules went well, although the run was a tiny bit light. Yesterday's long run convinced me - the run portion of the First Annual Oakville Half brought to you by nobody, scheduled for June 1 will in all likelihood have at least a 75% trail run course. It's way better than road running and sucking exhaust. Course maps still to follow, although I imagine they'll be finalized by about Wednesday.

This weekend was IronMan Brazil - has always been one of my "wishlist" destination races. Results and race reports from Ironmanlive.com are available here. Once again, Fernanda Keller, the 43-year old "Wonder Woman" of Brazil won the women's race, celebrating her 25th year as a professional triathlete. To persevere in this sport for that long is pretty impressive.

Today might have been one of the last long rides on Donkey, my "noble steed". Yep, tomorrow the new baby is due and the pre-deed is done. A new parking space is set up in the garage and the Donkey was amputated - pedals removed.

Editor's note: remember the other mention last week about the "other" new baby that was due to join the family last week? My cousin and her husband were convinced they were having a son (and his name was Luke). They had their fourth daughter on Friday - baby is doing fine, mother and father are a little confused, but otherwise fine.

In remembrance of the contribution Donkey made to my, ahem "career" in this hobby, a few profiles have been attached. I'll be observing a moment of silence, although undoubtedly Donkey will remain in the rotation for the occasional mercy weekend ride, or to shuttle the kids to school once in awhile.

The last one is of course just a candid shot of the two of us chillaxing together.

Peace.