Cesar's Blog

How not to write about the most amazing experience of fatherhood !, wow... it is just amazing, all of the sodden nothing else matter in life, nothing will be more important, than been able to see your kids happy and healthy. So, last week Maria and I headed to the Foothills hospital for our scheduled C-Section on Thursday June 13th. We had to be there at least an hour before, so we left home at around 7:15am. After a quick stop in Tim Hortons for coffee (of course) and McGriddles for Nick we were in our way to the hospital. Quick admission and soon we were in the OR waiting to meet our twins !! The adrenaline was high, not only she is getting opened up, but we didn't know the sex of the babies !@@ Maria was very nervous, but ready like a pro in the start line (I was telling her that it probably feels like her last lap !) of course she wasn't happy about the comparison, but she knew what I meant by that ::--)). First baby's head is almost out and I was...

Wow time went by so fast that we are only a day away from meeting the twins ! how exited !@ It seems like it was yesterday when we found out that we were expecting twins, yeap this was the first picture that changed our lives.. I still can't believe it, but we are so exited about this that can barely picture how things will be in the near future. This has been a beautiful journey of 9 months long, counting every week, every day, every kick... Maria is now almost 18kg over, and luckily has felt excellent throughout the pregnancy (bit bossy and grumpy at times, but overall pretty good :-))) She has been trying to convince me to carry all day long a 18kg back pack so that I can feel what is like, but I don't think I need that, as carrying Nick (15kg) in my shoulders after every race is challenging enough.... no time for dad before or after any race, nope ! he doesn't give a sh.... about recovery :-(( I have been running home after work once a week and all he wants to do w...

Well, with an ugly forecast, rain and mud the Giver8er 2013 is now in the books ! After a quick tent set up with Andrew, I got on the bike and went out for a warm up with Leighton (bad idea...) it was only a warm up and he was already dropping me :-(( I started to wonder "when are we turning back and head out the the start??" luckily he said "ok, let's go back, we don't want to miss the start!". I lined up at the front with all the Dead Goats and at the start I was probably riding top in the 10. Erik was right behind me and I had to perform well, didn't want to show I was hurting a bit/ Lap 1 went well as the trails were in phenomenal shape, went through the pits and didn't need to refill as I was feeling ok and didn't want to over eat this time. Lap 2 conditions still alright, but could feel some drops.. Lap 3 was a bit rainy and the mud was sticky, hard to pedal through and a bit frustrating in some sections of the course. Lap ...