John's back

Who? John Carter, on ER(the TV show)...man I love that show. And as life imitates art, I made my short return to Sandy Hill CHC to work. Ok, maybe I'm not as cool as John Carter, but I do also work in the ER. Although it's gonna take a couple shifts at the CHC before I go jump in the ER mix of things. It was nice to go to work, I generally enjoy it, the people are great and it's good for the brain and the spirit to produce something useful every now and then. Funny how challenging it was yesterday to do rather easy work, I guess I am a little rusty. I only worked half a day but I slept so deep last night, not use to training and working, forgot how hard that was.

Thing is because I am a registered professional, I have an obligation to myself and the public to keep up my skills and knowledge in health care so even if I was making money cycling, I would still work to keep up to date. So enough about that.

Training is obviously pretty hard right now as Tash and I working are butts off to get strong again, but everything seems to be falling into place rather quickly, thanks to some slight training modifications. Ok,well some pretty significant changes, but that's all I can say.

Tasha attributes it to her sweet new bike and position as she had half the factory at Specialized involved in making sure her bike fit was totally perfect. It's really amazing to see how Specialized do everything to tailor the fit of the bike to the athlete. They put some shims in one of her shoes, to fix her wonky leg, special women's saddle, compact gearing, shallow bars, it fits her perfect!

Word on the street is that my new bike is in, this year I'll be riding an Opus again. Glen, the great guy he is made sure I am going to be rolling a nice rig, word on the street is it's just arrived.
It's always nice to get new stuff, it's not all about having cool stuff, but it just makes you wanna ride your bike, it's the part of the sport that makes you feel like a kid again.

Speaking of kids, looks like Natasha will be doing some math tutoring and I'll be doing some reading with our 6 year old Nephew Ethan, he is changing schools and the curricula in Quebec was not as aggressive as the programs here in Ontario. That being said, it's great to have the kids around, but I don't think I've ever said "don't do that" so many times.

I told Ethan he needed to eat his vegetables to get all his energy. He looked at me with his big blue eyes and he said "but I never run out of energy". I laughed so hard I nearly spit my drink on him. Kids.


Best of all....they think I'm huge in Europe...