What a weekend for Canadian athletes! and a teeny timezone mixup...

So, I just got back from a great weekend of camping @ China beach (just past sooke) with Greg - the weather, scenery, company and food were all perfect - I forgot how much I loved camping. We spent lots of time on the beach and even saw some grey whales (well their backs and their blowholes) as well having encounters with lots of other west-coast wildlife, including mossy chitons, aneomes, squirels, mice and our campsite neighbours, some rednecks from Langford ;)

While we were away, our athletes were busy in Beijing winning tons of medals-- what an amazing job our men's 8 and 4 did capturing gold and bronze in rowing!! Ryan Cochrane from Victoria, winning a bronze in the pool! As well as medals in trampoline, wrestling, equestrian jumping and a few others I'm probably forgetting.... what a great weekend!!!

Of course the event I've been waiting for the most is tonight, and apparently I've been traveling too much lately because in my last post I said that Simon W would win his gold medal in tonight's race starting at 1am.... but I was adding 3 hrs to EST not subtracting...oooops!! The race actually starts at 6:49pm tonight PST- it will be on CBC but they only showed snippets of the women's race last night so if you want to see the race in its entirety it's better to watch it streaming from the cbc website.

Speaking of the women's race last night, our Canadian girls did a great job, and Canada is very proud of all 3 of them, but unfortunately none of them had the race they hoped for- especially poor Lauren Groves, who had to leave the race early due to a broken left arm that happened during a pileup on the bike course... :( If you have a message for any of our triathletes you can leave it here.


GO CANADA!!!!

xoxo C