600/600 Club

This year will be full of a lot of "last" things. Yesterday was the last cyclathon. Every year my school has this cyclathon as a main fundraising event. We go out to Bird's Hill Park and ride, walk, or run 5km laps all day. Fun stuff right...? Especially as a young grade seven tryng to fit in all all those laps by 4pm. Because there is the 100/100 club. This means raising at least $100 and biking 100km. Then for all that hard work you get your name recongized and you get a t-shirt. Hmm thinking back I'm surprised I wanted to do this every year! Anyways, in recent years there have been some graduating students that have been part of the "600/600 club." You guessed it, that means doing the 100 for all 6 years in a row. It is still quite a small group of people that have achieved this status.
Waking up on the morning of my sixth cyclathon it was freezing and windy. I was still sick and the sore throat from last weekend seemed to be returning. I was tired from a long week of running everyday, including my xcountry race earlier and a hill workout the night before. So as you can imagine the appeal of the 600/600 club was already decreasing. However I got out to the park bright and early and got on my bike to begin my laps. I figured it would be best to just finish 75 km (15 laps) by around 11am. Then here's one of the benefits to being a runner: if you are on the xcountry team you can run one lap with the group at noon that counts as 5 laps. So 25km. I would be completely done by 12:30. Turned out almost everything went according to plan. My dad came and biked with me for about 3 hours in the morning. At some points several teachers or parents would come join and draft off of us for a few laps or something. I had enough time before the run to scarf down some food before having to go run. At least as a triathlete I am used to running with tired legs after the bike. Although not really comparable as it was a much longer bike with a delay to accumulate some nice lactic acid in my legs and some undigested food in my stomach. I knew this wouldn't be a speedy day for running so it was great when my friend Mikala asked if she could come run with me, and if I would go her pace. No problem, I didn't really care how long it took and it was great to have some company out there. Also, I decided to rock the socks. Compression socks that is. And she still ran next to me, what a great friend! So having accomplishing my goals I grabbed some more food, caught up with some friends, and was out of there by 1pm. Enough time to have a nap before having to go to work! Anyways, it was suggested to me I return as an alumni and invent a new group; the 1000/1000 club. No thanks, this will actually be the last I think. But a huge thank you to everyone that has supported me over the last six years, your sponsorship for this event was much appreciated!!