Another Busy Weekend

What a difference a week can make for weather in Calgary - ok, never mind a week, just a few minutes can be enough change! But we now have spring in the air and we were busy trying to make the most of it this weekend. Here's a quick recap:

Friday night we went to Theatre Calgary's Production of Beauty & The Beast. Wow -- the woman playing Belle had a stunning voice & could have sang in the movie. Overall very well done and a great night out.

Saturday we celebrated the end of the crazy work schedules for Scott, as this was his last day in his posting, before he takes his promotion posting. But, of course it didn't happen before he was called into work for overtime on a project! : ) However, we did make our couples massage at 4:30pm and followed it up with a great dinner out together. Ahh, massage!


Sunday we volunteered with Ed @ the Police Half Marathon. Adam & Roxcie ran it this year and did a great sub 2-hour run (yeah - congrats!) And they looked good as they crossed the finish line. We had great jobs at the Start/Finish line and got to see all the action. We ran it two years ago and I don't think Scott's knees have been the same. But Katie may run it next year again!

In the afternoon, we made the most of the beautiful weather (+17) and did our 55km bike ride downtown and back.

With Scott now working downtown, we are able to bike to work together. So we are fitting two bike-to-work commutes into out training schedule this week to take advantage of it!

Life is good, hope you are enjoying your weekend too!

Even More Exciting!!!

We just received our final proofs of our new BC Bike Race jerseys & shorts!!!! We are super excited and the wait until they actually arrive on the doorstep is going to kill us! Fortunately this small step has provided us with renewed motivation to keep riding our trainers until the pesky snow melts – and we have good news on that front too – it's supposed to be double digits (on the positive side of zero for once) this weekend. We might even get to commute to work on the bikes next week!

Anyway, here are the jerseys and shorts.

Exciting!

As we begin another week of training (indoors for now until the snow stops!) There is an exciting development in our BC Bike Race quest.

Katie has designed a logo for our Team Jersey and we have started the process with a Vancouver company to get them made for the race -- we actually got the first 'draft' back from the company already, and we'll share the final version with you in the next week or so!

For now, you get a glimpse at the logo in its early stages...

74 days to the Start of the BC Bike Race! Good thing we've been training or we'd be even more freaked out right now!

Birthdays . . .

Funny card from Paul & Amanda (thanks!) Inside says: The more you have, the harder it is to breathe. hahaha!

Birthday Girl...

Happy Birthday, Katie!

Sadly, the snow storm forced us to cancel our Birthday Bowler-Rama Party Plans -- but you still get presents, time with family and cake!!

Looking forward to another great year with you.

Maybe some fun in the sun photos will make you forget about the snow! xo

Spring Rides?!?

Mom & Dad Boyd are here from the Island for a visit & Katie's Birthday this weekend. We hoped that Calgary would show-off what great spring time weather it can have. Sadly, the weather had other plans.

We got up early so we could get in our 80kms before Ma & Pa woke up. We got our cold weather gear on and headed West towards Bragg Creek on our mountain bikes -- but the snow picked up and visibility decreased and were back home after only 1.5 hours of riding. We had to bring back the trainers, set them up inside and do our last half of the ride on our road bikes indoors (sad.)

But it gave the folks an appreciation of our training regiment and what we've been up to lately!

View from our front door & Us less than impressed with having to drag out the trainers!

More snow in the weekend forecast, but the Birthday Bowler-Rama in our Spring Gear will still happen and hopefully encourage better weather : )

Bike Weekend

This weekend is truly dedicated to bikes. Saturday and Sunday we are taking a bike mechanic course to help bolster our repair skills. Today was tons of fun in the class - we are the most experienced in the class, but we are still learning lots.

And after class, we jumped on our road bikes (yeah! we put the trainers away...) We had one of our best rides of the season -- amazing sunshine and warm temps (+16!) we fought the wind both ways, but it was still so enjoyable. We did a 42km out and back to Priddis Fire Hall & there were tons of roadies out sharing the afternoon with us.

We were both out-of-province for work this past week, so there is currently no food in our house. So this blog will be cut short - as we need to go grocery shopping. How is it that chores always get in the way of the fun stuff, eh?! hahaha!

Delay of Game!

Today was going to be the start of our softball season. Our team -- The Corked Bats -- had a practice planned to get the season rolling.

What fun it would be -- tossing the ball around, swinging the bat and getting our first glimpse at what kinda team we would be fielding this season. What joy it would bring us!

And then we woke up from our slumber to find out that the weather guy truly knows jack! What other job could you be as vague or just plain wrong so often and still keep your job?! But we digress...

The fact is we can not play ball today. Now we have to do house chores.