Had the best time!! can’t wait to get back with the gang

I have so many things I could talk about right now but one comes to mind first : life.

You thought I was going to talk about World Championship, something related to bike or sports right?

Nope

Life.

Thats Important, we only have one and it will probably be too short no matter what age we are when we go.

I need to be happy. Not just once in a while but ALL the time. Am I clear?

There is no time for sadness or shit like that and I have been spending way too much time in these two categories. Wondering why this, why that… Why am I not this or that…You know what Lyne B? Yes talking to myself, YOU ARE a happy woman and you deserve to be. I have a great life and I do forget just like everybody else, sometimes that I am lucky to be where I am, with an awesome family, friends and husband. I need to be reminded to often and I shouldn’t. Whats wrong with me? I wish I could just answer that but I might have to go and read about it..or not. How about just being me, myself and the woman that I grew into. Just that? is that too complicated?

thats my update.

 

 

Just got back from the Sydney para- cycling world cup…Im at my parents house and…

Im tired, can’t wait to be home and feel kind a… meeh. After more then 35hrs of travel in one day I can say that Im a traveler!.HA! But I knew that.

Not any king of traveler tho…After all those years flying and going all over the world, I for sure now remembered how bad I am, that I’m a BAD traveler. Its not complicated, I would need a psy to help me with this uncomfortable feeling that I get when I get on a plane or even putting my right foot in the airport… Im not scared, or anything like that. I’m just soooooo uncomfortable and stuck and always have to pee and always wonder why they never have my food choice when they get to me, why the bread in the sandwich look like a pudding…why some people are so enificient at airport, why I always get my honey taken away…why can’t they tell that I didn’t put anything bad in my tasmanian honey..but NO they had to take it away cause maybe …AAArrrrrr.

Why we have to pick up our bags in Vancouver to transfer them to another belt and do security again for no reason? but dont have to pick up the bikes?

Why the luggages and not the bikes?
Why is there always a problem when we travel with bikes, wheels? why can’t they just accept the fact that we ride bikes for living instead of something else? Yes Im venting. But I can’t believe that now in 2011 they dont have a machine that can tell  that my freaking honey is not a bomb?

Tim always told me that we can’t do anything about it and that a middle seat is not that bad. WHAT? are you kidding me a middle seat? thats my worst nightmare.

And why the seat in first class is 13000$ more than a regular seat? Are they that much better or ours are that much shittier? You read me right 13000$.

good night, thanks I feel better now:)

My sweet brown lab left us the 17th of Febuary.

I’t was a very sad day in our lives.

I cried and cried and cried. That day we walked in the woods for more than 2 hrs just like if she was with us. My face was swollen from all the tears. My eyes were constantly wet and my heart remembering all the days we spent together.

It took me 5 days to get off the couch. I felt empty. Tim was gone to europe and I didn’t have Vitesse anymore. Lonely..so lonely.

Greta came to the rescue, she is our friends, Chandler and Jenny’s dog, a long hair German Shepherd she is a cutie.

They where leaving for the week end for a wedding so I took her to helped them out. At first I wasn’t so sure about having her around…but then I started to appreciate her presence, her softness,and  her attitude when I called her. I sat in the sun in the backyard on one of the first warm day of the spring and I just threw snowballs..she went after each one of them without stopping for an hour. I was calm, in the sun with my eyes close and I could almost see Vitesse running in the snow…

Thanks Greta for being there.

In town here in Topsfield,MA we have a nice lunch place called the market, the owner , Terry, is involve in lab rescue here in MA. She has been so nice caring and asking about Vitesse every time we went in there for food or wine.

Then after Vitesse passed away she told me about maybe fostering doggies until they would be adopted…I wasn’t quite sure but really it didn’t take me much time before sending an application to become a foster home when Im actually home. It went very fast and already last Sunday I was picking up 2 5months old brown pups for the week and hopefully they would be adopted before I had to leave again. So really it was like they were both mine:)

I took care of them like no one.

Wednesday, I drove to Hanover NH to drop one off to his new family. It was hard to let him go because he reminded me so much of my dog. But I knew he was going to be a happy, safe and loved with his new family. That made me smiled.

The other little guy was taken by our great friend Chandler , Jenny and Greta! Chandler had fell in love with the little guy the first time he saw him . Jenny and Greta had really no choice, they had to accept the new kid in the family:) Im thankful that they both found great homes and even more grateful that I can take care of Leo almost everyday when Chandler comes to work at our “under construction house”

life comes and goes

and I will always remember Vitesse

Tim and I bought a new house this summer. A nice 2 family in a sweet little town name Topsfield. Its just big enough for me…the town:)

I can walk everywhere with in 2 min. No really. The other funny thing is that our neighbours in Beverly were a very nice couple named Dave and Rebecca.

I was always jealous of their yard cause it was always stunning with all kinds of flowers. Dave is the owner of a bike shop…the bike shop in Topsfield…right in front of our new house !!

So we seem him as much as before with his little dog named Wolfy.

Anyway, the last month as been busy for me. I feel like I always find a way to get busy…We had not touch the back unit of the house since we got in. Instead we were working on finishing the Barn…I had no motivation to go in and I guess I just though that I couldn’t do that kind of stuff.

One morning, I finally decided to give it a try after Tim told me :” Just go in you might see things you can actually do..” right….I got dress like a guy and went over there. When I came out it was dark, I had a pile of old carpet on the grass and no more in the house. Not only the carpets where out there was no more nails and tacks on the ground and everything was clean. day #1 was done.

Than I got excited.

I started to go back almost everyday…I took down some plaster , walls, floors, celling, cabinets…Always cleaning after my mess…I just can’t stand a dirty house!

When tim got home from racing he couldn’t believe everything that I’ve done…My parents came for the weekend and help with the cabinets and harder stuff. My dad was as strong as I knew he was even with having to deal with lupus and my mom after cancer…wow she was non stop. I really know where I got all that strength.

PROBLEM: I did a mistake by not calling our architect about the structure of the house…in a previous meeting we had conclude on the bairing walls…but i guess there where not the good ones. OPPPPPPPS big OPPPPPSSS.

After having our architect come over and check out the work he said : well you might want to put a couple support 2×4 here…

When ? I ask

NOW he said…

the celling already had some new cracks and that wasn’t good:)

Everything came back to normal but it could’ve been worse:)

After 2 full containers we are moving forward with the project. Im learning as we go and tim too. I have to say he is the god of calling people and making sure they come and do the work.

I also have to say thanks to @delinks for his help.

In my last Blog I was going to maybe do an IM before the end of the year…well I was register and everything for the AZ one…this weekend coming up.

You know sometimes I think because I dress like a guy that I can demo a lots of thing and also shovel pack dirt for an hour…NOT I strained my back and have to call it OFF. I wont be racing another IM this year. Maybe its just not ment to be. And like my own coach just told me today:” be careful there is no shoveling contest in the Olympics…”

Pentathlon des neiges!!

Ce sera ma premiere participation et j ai hate! Ca va etre le fun!!

Quand Jai dit ca a PO Boily il m’a dit: “Pas sur que tu vas encore dire ca quand tu vas arriver a la raquette…”

Une autre de tes idees de fous vous allez me dire..Ben non c est pas si pire que ca un ti 2h30 d efforts….

Ouais, Quand j ai dit ca a PO il m’a dit: pas sur que tu vas dire ca quand tu vas avoir le dos dans le tapis pendant le 9 km de patin de vitesse…

Ben coup donc, c est du sport et du sport j en ai fait toute ma vie…

A suivre:)

Evenement: 26-27 fevrier sur les plaines a Quebec

Equipe SIBOIRE

Last year in January, my mom was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer.

This year in January, my brown pup was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer.

My best friend’s dad said that Vitesse took my mom’s cancer to save her life…I believe him. Vitesse is always the first one to take care of a tear, a sadness or a sickness. She is always there when you need her, she loves you no matter what, she give’s kisses even when you don’t ask for them, she braves the cold to greet you at the car when you get home, you can always count on her warmth and her snuggle….

Friday the 7th Vitesse was taken to the emergency hospital for doggies in Canada… They told me 4 to 6 weeks. We were devastated. I couldn’t believe that this little brown thing was going to leave us.

Since that day, Vitesse lost 10 pounds, she take drugs to make her life easy and comfortable. She is very calm, still keeps me warm in bed at night and run in the snow first thing in the morning. No more snowshoeing for her on long walk outside cause her skin and bone jacket is not quite enough.

I don’t know when… But Im taking each minute of each day to make sure she is close to me, not hungry  and comfortable.

Tim is in europe and Vitesse told me she can’t wait to see him:)

thanks for reading

Good morning everyone,

Kona is coming soon and I will not be there. I am not sad or bummed…Im realistic.

I had started my quest for Kona last year, I trained all winter in Santa Barbara, swam 4 to 5 times a week, ran a bunch and bike a lot too. I thought that I could make it there…Well, after St-George in the spring where I DNF’d because of a hamstring issue, I had to rethink my situation…And I did.

I took a break from running long, biking long and swimming long…and started to rest my legs. I had plans to do maybe lake placid or another Ironman in the season but as of right now, I never did. I guess I realized that I love to train and stay fit but not that much!!! It really took all my life, all my time and all my energy. Im not saying that I didn’t enjoy doing it, Im saying that I just don’t think it was for me at that time. Im also not saying that I wont try again.

Summer has been busy like always, we bought a new house, I raced in the para-cycling world championships (which changed my life), I took part in a charity 24h bike ride for cancer and started running with a group in town here. I was always a runner in heart. When I was a kid I started to race at the age of 10 until I was at University. So I joined them and really enjoy their company. Most of these guys run ultra’s…Crazy, thats like 160km or 100 miles or 4 marathons back to back or driving to montreal,QC and back from Bromont,QC. I was inspired but not willing to try that quite yet:)

So through the summer I took part in a 21km trail run and a 40km one. Then 2 weeks ago I went running with my group, hadn’t seen them for a while and they all told me they were doing VT50: thats either a mt bike race of 50 miles or you can also race on foot. I did it last year on the bike and it took me 8h15 in a real mudfest.  Great idea!!! Im in. No training, I haven’t ran more than 2hrs lately…hhmmmmm oh well!

So to prepare for that, I flew the week end before to Pittsburg and drove to Deep Creek lake in MD for the Savageman Triathlon Olympic and half Ironman distances (yes, two races). Again I did it last year and I wanted to go back. FYI I have a compact on my bike for that race, 7000 feet of climbing in 56 miles and the run is NOT flat. Again sometimes I have the best ideas out there! Im going all the way there so might as well do both. So Saturday I won the olympic distance (1.5km swim,40km bike and 10km run) and felt fine:) The next morning I woke up……sooooo sore, and I had to do it all over again and even longer:) I did it and got 3rd, with a broken derailler that had me stuck in the 11 and made me walk the last couple hills. Anyway that was fun. Training for the vt 50 was done:)

VT50:

Early morning, dark, and chilly.

Start: Feeling good but trying to hold back and start slow…not slow enough.

20km in: Im on my pace of 9h that I want to achieve

40km in: Feeling a blister on the inside of my right foot, Not good.

60km : What the hell am I doing here? Where is the truck so I can go back to the ski area and eat, its been 7h of running I think thats enough? My knee hurts…

65km: Only 9 miles to go not that bad, should be able to do that, 9 miles is no biggie…

66km; Crap still8.5 miles to go, I feel like Im not moving. My brain is no longer connected to my legs.

70km; Only 10km to go  wow I think I can finish this thing..Im not on target now but will miss the 9h, well at this point I dont care:) chips and coke at the feed.

75km; Am I there yet? God that shit is long, stay focused. think about baby steps…

76km: Can I borrow a bike for the last 4km? Man, a bike would be so nice right now? How about a chair? Bed? I need to lay down,

77km : I stop for a sec to look at my legs…knees are sooooo swollen Im in major pain

79km; Smile you are almost there not even a mile to go…Yeah right I bet Its all downhill from here too? I hate downhills!

80km; I get passed on the line by another woman who could actually run at the end. I was 5th overall In 9h24min …thats too long next year I will go for 8h30 and train for it:)

notes:

I stop swimming after Ironman St George the 1st of may and I was only 2 min slower in the water…

I make it up the 31% wall at Savageman for the 2nd year: got my second brick!

VT 50:

Dont do that at home its painful,

Pizza delivery is awesome after a 50 mile run race when you can’t walk

I hate bananas, potatoes, chips and drank heed and water,

I cant believe they do 100 miles of that

Walking around the house in compression tights is actually necessary, and looks sooo good

Ill be back next year:)

People think Im crazy!

MERCI a tous de votre participation a cette premiere edition! Un total de dons de pres de 250 000$ pour le cancer , les enfants malades et la fondation des Cedres! Une reussite sur toute la ligne et deja un engouement  pour la 2e edition l an prochain.

Un parcours des plus securitaire sur le circuit du Mt- tremblant avec une montee qui selon les dires revenait tres vite surtout sur la boucle du soir et de la nuit qui avait ete racourcie de 4.3 km a 2.8km:) Mais quel beau defi de rouler durant 24h avec des amis, des partenaires, des gens motives pour la meme cause qu est le cancer.

Avec les annees je me suis rendue compte que le cancer nous touche tous que ce soit de loin ou de pres…Il s est definitivement rapproche de moi ces dernieres annees: un cancer du foie qui a emmene mon grand pere Viateur, un cancer des glandes lymphatiques pour le frere de ma mere, Victor, un cancer generalise qui emportera mon grand pere Lionel bientot et une remission d un cancer des glandes lymphatiques pour ma mere…Il etait donc important pour moi de m associer a une telle lutte.

Merci a tous les embassadeurs et a l an prochain!!

Im sitting here in my new home near Boston, MA thinking about the last 2 weeks.

Im still on the clouds after a gold medal at the Para-cycling world Championship with my stoker Robbie  Weldon in the tandem race….I can’t really find the words to express how I felt when we both crossed the line. We were racing in our own country with all canadian fans cheering for us every lap and soooooo loud at the finish! It was a moment that reminded me my first big win in 1998 at the Commonwealth Games. I had goose bumps, I had tears, my parents were there, my friends, the staff , my teammates but mostly my partner in crime Robbie.

Without her, that day would’ve been impossible. With her drive , her strength, her great attitude, motivation and leg power, together we raced for our country and every second of the race we had the same goal, same pedal stroke, same killer eyes.

Thanks Robbie

more to come