racing season is about to start.

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Yesterday I arrived in Knowlton at about 430pm, I emptied the VW and drove with my mom to get my tandem in Bromont. I talked paint with Nicolas cause we are refreshing the training center’s walls next week… gross beige is not so appealing for kids and athletes.

Off we went to dinner at a nice little place in Bromont. We sat down at the last table not reserved. It was early and I didn’t think it was going to be that busy. But that little place has great food and ambiance.

We always say the world is small right? 4 people arrived, Randy and his wife Melanie, Catherine ( z creations) and her Husband Marco! They live 2min from my brothers house. We exchanged a couple laughs and talked about euuhh …some funny things that can’t be talked in public!!

That morning I was on my computer having breakfast and I clicked on a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMAml8ew68

Zoe is their dauther, she is 6 and was racing in the” defi sportif ” this week. When she was born, she needed a new heart..she was very lucky. She is now an athlete and beautiful strong litle girl. I was amazed again. 

Tonight Robbi and I will be at the Defi Sportif in Montreal on the Gille Villeneuve circuit for a 22km Time trial. Its raining and about 3 celcius right now (at 8am) …max for the day 6…

This is a UCI race so we get the chance to wear our very pretty rainbow stripes skinsuit. My concern is: It might be better if I bring my snowmobile one piece…they actually call for snow. Hmmm…this is the first race of a long season. We’re ready!

To all my sponsors, my friends and family, my husband, and my fans Thank you for believing in me again and again.

lyne

life after Vitesse…

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Tim and I have 2 new pups since last year. Vitesse was our first dog and she left us with so many beautiful memories.

Vitesse was such a awesome dog that we needed 2 to make it up to her!

Here they are: Monkey May, 40 pounds lab mix with the energy of 3. We think she has ADD:) and her bro, Litte man, he is chill and can sleep all day without being bothered :)

And Its a GO!

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First ride today on the tandem with Robbi since track worlds. We both have the same “gold” for the upcoming year:). Very exciting time of our athletic career. A lots of travel, races and communication will help getting us to the top.

I will keep you posted on the season. thanks for supporting us

And…its been a long time!

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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.

 

 

I already knew that but had forgotten…

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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:)

RIP Vitesse 2006-2011

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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

Old post that I forgot to put on the blog:)

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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…”