Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Month of Wow

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This is one crazy month! I’m getting to start it off with an amazing adventure in Italy and then I’ll come home to launch my book. There is a word here for that… fantastico! ( it’s Italian for wow!)

This is my third year being part of the support for an auction item that was sold at the national dinner series, Gold Medal Plates. These dinners which simultaneously raise money (6 Million dollars so far) for Canadian athletes (through Own The Podium and the Canadian Olympic Foundation) and select the Canadian Culinary Champion. They really are unique gala dinners but the auction items are incredibly special opportunities. This one, “Under the Tuscan Sun” has cyclist Curt Harnett, x-country skier Chandra Crawford, and myself cycling around with the guests in the morning and then after everyone has enjoyed a fabulous afternoon / evening of Tuscan wine and food, Barney Bentall and Jim Cuddy entertain everyone in our Relais and Chateau 5-star resorts hotel bar.

The guests are from across the country – NFLD to Vancouver Island – and it’s (as always) an amazing group of curious, creative and active (varying levels for sure!) people. What a treat to be here! Continue reading →

Protect your performance

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Happy May!  87 days until the Olympics begin – which means only 104 until they are over. (Whoa!) This time – your time – is precious.

I loved reading the tweets at 100 days out – Rosie MacLennan figured out that she had 57,142 jumps (on the trampoline) to go, someone at CTV figured out that were only 14 Wednesdays left, Ryan Cochrane got way more specific (as an athlete would) with 1.5 million seconds left to train and this got RT’d a few times: “Odds of being an Olympic athlete are 630,000 to 1. Odds of winning a gold medal are 22,000,000 to 1. #100daystogo to lower the odds.” Across the board everyone seemed to be pumped that the Games are closing in but there is a laser focus on the work that is left to do. Awesome.

A few months ago, in Bubble Wrap and Priorities I wrote about not doing anything ‘dumb’ that could risk your health. This month I want to suggest that you don’t risk your energy. You need to be selfish in the next 104 days and protect your performance. This includes protecting your energy levels too. Continue reading →