Welcome to my regular column on the Team TIMEX blog which will focus on training, racing and mental tips. I will try to focus my comments on past experience and any questions posed by you the reader. I encourage you to ask a question what ever it is, I will provide the answer on the hopes that it just MITE help you.

As you can see from my profile I was born and raised in the great white north otherwise known as Canada. This is a land where we finish every sentence with the word eh ! hockey is genetic and we have a very strange name for a ski hat (toque pronounced Tooke).
As you can imagine there are a few different multisport issues for us training and racing in colder climates. Luckily, I live in Victoria BC where I miss out on most of the snow we see in Canada. Well we do get a little snow each year but we always downplay it given the deepfreeze the rest of the nation experiences every winter.

The good thing about living in Victoria is we have a flower count every February to boast about our warm weather and the fact we can easily justify at least two bikes well three if you include our mountain bike. This includes a lovely winter bike complete with fenders with water bottle extensions, and our racing bike although many athletes from the north exploit the colder weather to justify having a few more. Having more than a single digit number of bikes in Canada does not make it any different from triathletes in warmer weather we just use the cold to easily justify it to ourselves and those around usJ

I am looking forward to utilizing this vehicle to assist all of you with any questions you have. Subjects such as training tips, mental toughness, race strategy, and balancing your training in your day to day life can be discussed. Of course if there is a request for discussion on other subjects we will include those as well.

Please feel free to drop me a line in the comments section and I will do my best to get to all questions.

Yours in Racing

Bruce “IronCanuck” Bauman

PS. Multisport Ironcanuck Tips Eh (MITE)