NEW WEBSITE! September 15, 2011

Check it out: www.martinawan.com A BIG thank you to Canister Creative and Sven Boecker for putting this together and making me look good : )

S5 Week 50 – Subaru Banff Triathlon! September 14, 2011

Last weekend I headed over the Rocky’s to Banff to race in the Subaru Banff Triathlon and it was a fun weekend! a much needed one and honestly more than anything it was just really nice to have  a ‘drama-free’ race too : ) I’ve driven through Banff with some friends a few years ago on [...]

S5 Week 48 – 10sec of fame! September 5, 2011

Who knew running on a triathlon relay at the Vancouver Triathlon and crashing off a bike at the Subaru Sooke Triathlon would get me in the newspaper and TV? … sweeeet, hehe : ) TSN Broadcast Times for Subaru Sooke Triathlon: TSN 2* Sat Sep 03 11, 11:00 PST (11am) Tue Sep 06 11, 19:00 [...]

S5 Week 47 – Work in Progress … Nationals race report August 27, 2011

Ok, so here it goes … Last weekend was the much anticipated Elite National Championships in Kelowna.  It is a great, well organized race that I have enjoyed racing very much!  It’s now been 4 years in a row.  The first time being my very first elite race ever!  Yup, that’s a little hard to [...]

S5W45 – lucky #13? August 11, 2011

… OR not so much.  Wearing race #13 this past weekend wasn’t very lucky at the Sooke Pro Chase event. A very cool event that I was really  looking forward to.  It was going to be fun racing  and being ‘chased’, but more than anything I just wanted to put in a good effort and [...]

S5W44 – Day 9 … August 5, 2011

Too tired to write, so some pics this week (Thanks Laura and Andrew for the pics). Thanks Coach Lance, Bjoern and Paul for a great camp …     A looong (for the Olympic distance triathlete ), but beautiful ride along the coast   Some great swim workouts at the Saanich Commonwealth Pool The famous [...]

S5W43 – Day 2 of ‘Vacation’! July 29, 2011

… and by vacation I mean training camp : ) I am currently in Victoria training with the Lifesport crew. With the amazing support and understanding from my engineering work I am able to get away for 10 days to focus on my other job as a triathlete. And with the beautiful weather (since I [...]

S5W41 – … not quite Boulder ‘Peak’ July 14, 2011

Well, where do I start? I guess I’ll start off with the positives from this past weekend in Boulder racing a 5150 race because there always has to be something positive  out of everything …. Boulder is pretty awesome! The moment I got there I got a really good vibe from it.  It’s a mecca [...]

S5 week 39 – Race 3 of 3 … a little rusty! June 28, 2011

Well I know it’s been while since I’ve raced an Olympic distance triathlon, but I guess I’m a little rusty! So, I could say many things about the race, but I’ve already moved on and am looking on how to make things go better in the next race!! So, I’ll summarize in some photos and [...]

S5 Week 38 – Race 2 of 3 … June 19, 2011

        Well, its been another solid week of training and racing. I made the trek over to Victoria for the weekend and got in some good work done!  It started with my first wetsuit swim of the year at the famous Thetis Lake with the Lifesport crew and it was surprisingly not [...]