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Summer 2025 race season
Back in March I started thinking about the 2025 summer race season. At that point it was still cold, my HbA1c was at around 7.4, and training inside was the name of the game. Cold morning walks to the pool, cold afternoon walks to the gym, and what felt like cold walks downstairs to the…
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Back in North America
After six years in Las Palmas, we recently moved back to Montreal. We’ve been here a bit over a month and I have to say I’ve noticed some differences in my regular training. The Swim Gone are the days where I simply hop on the motorcycle and cruise down to the beach for an open-water…
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Black line or wavy green?
Back in Gran Canaria, I went for a swim at Las Canteras last week. After a summer of swimming in the local pool in Montreal, staring at the black line while doing my laps, it was refreshing to see a changing environment below me – wavy green grass, fish, coral, all the “natural” things. And…
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Interesting open water swim last week
It was a beautiful morning at Las Canteras when I went for a swim last week. Low tide was at 11:11, I was in the water at 10:45 at it was looking like a nice day. I waded into the water to about waist deep and then took a few breaths in preparation for the…
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It has been a few months since I stopped using a CGM
Late last year I made my first order for FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors. Before this, I had been using the 2, but I was excited to try the newer, smaller, and more feature-packed version. They were great! And then it came time to order a second batch, in December. So I placed the order, and…
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Race Report: Challenge Gran Canaria 2023
Race morning, stomach jumping around a bit, but overall quite calm for a few minutes before the start of a half ironman race. Once again I found myself at the start line of the Challenge Gran Canaria race, this time doing the “medium” distance (half ironman) as opposed to the “short” one I did two…
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Tough but good
Ocean swim this morning. Yes, I live in the Canary Islands, a tropical paradise, and yes, I’m lucky to be able to train outside throughout the year. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be really tough sometimes. Like this morning. But it was a good one, one of the best ocean swims in a…
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Stop the snack!
This is going to be a tough one. Snacking between meals and triathlon training seem to go together so well. A tough post-breakfast swim needs to be followed by a banana, or an energy bar, right? Not so fast. It might sound like a good idea, but for us diabetic triathletes it might not be…
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Back in the swing of things
Good things take time. I know this is the kind of platitude that we hear all the time, but it is the truth for me as I am finally able to swim again, along with the biking and the running. I’ve spent several hours over the past weeks at Playa de Las Canteras, swimming during…
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The road ahead
It has been a few weeks, ok, several months, that I have been on the road to recovery following my shoulder surgery. Today at my physio session I was told that things are going pretty well, so the next few sessions will move to the “readaptation” phase. In other words, time to get back to…
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