Big Day

Posted on February 26, 2007

Wow.   

Ok, this post really deserves some time, attention and writing, but I am probably going to rush through it as usual.  Yesterday my (2nd) nephew, Matthias Patrick Arndt was born.  My Brother Martin, and his wife Lianne gave birth to a beautiful baby boy last night, and things with them are great.  Everything went well, and there were no major complications.  My congratulations go out to them!  YAY~!  
Now that I think about it, this post is going to be really positive, because I feel really positive about things.     

I am also happy to announce that I have officially signed with a WIC team for 2007.  The Inline Center Bont Europe Team.  YAY! The team will be based out of Weifelden, very close to a superb COVERED Inline specific Banked track and training facility, host track of the World Championships in 2008. 

My Team-mates are:  
Inlinecenter Bont Europe
1. Giovani Conte [Italy]
2. Dario Danese [Italy]
3. Wayne Begg [New Zealand]
4. Christoph Luginbuhl [Switzerland]
5. Aaron Arndt [Canada]   

It looks like I will have my work cut out for me, supporting a team of some VERY strong and fast skaters, who have achieved some impressive results already.  I relish the role of a supporting member on such a strong team.  It is an honour.  I also very much look forward to training and racing in such a strong and competitive skating environment.  I hope to arrive in shape and ready to go for my first race May 5th in Basel.    

…Speaking of getting into shape here in Canada, on Saturday I had one of the toughest, most gruelling (psychologically and physiologically) training sessions of my career.  145km on the bike from Brampton to Neustadt, Ontario in -20 degrees with a head/cross wind from start to finish. 

Here are the stats from the ride:
Ride time: 5:27:00
Avg. HR: 153bpm
Max HR: 180bpm
HR Zone (135-170)
      Time in zone: 4:52:28
                 above: 12:07
                 below: 21:51
Kcal: 3968
Distance: 146.3km
Avg. Speed: 27.1km/hr
Max Speed: 54.8km/hr
Avg. Cadence: 87rpm
Max Cadence: 105rpm 
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…now that I look at those stats, they don’t seem all that impressive.  I think you’d have to experience the terrain (it’s EXTREMELY hilly), the wind, and the cold to appreciate how tough that ride was.  I do have to say thanks to a fantastic riding partner Petey Light, who finished the ride and ate all my candy bars, and sat in my draft for a REALLY, REALLY long time after the 50km mark (hehe), and to Peter Doucet for an entertaining chat in a tiny and crazy local ski-doo club/pub/restaurant up in Neustadt while Petey and I gorged to reclaim our ~4000 calories, and a much appreciated ride home into Brampton.    

Also, indoors is really going well.  I very much enjoy working with the group here in Toronto.  I really feel like we are building something great here.  While I have mixed feelings about the RSO series, I do them, and they seem to be providing some good things for the local/grassroots scene here in Toronto.  It really is a good thing for the young skaters.  My hat goes off to a very physical Jesse Pauley yesterday who raced a really tough and smart 1000m race.  The rest of the group is also skating well, of course… but I thought I would mention his effort [that the results don’t really show] because he was declassed for shoving me out of his way!  hehehe!  way to go dude.   

Anyway, it is 8am, and already I am running late.  I hope to attach a picture within this post if I can get the ones we took on the ride on Petey’s cell phone.     

Aaron Richard Arndt    

…oh, and I have a tattoo appointment scheduled for this coming Thursday!  The cat is ‘out of the bag’.  *wink*     
  

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