Training Log: Bash

In the last 7 days:

activity

time

miles

Paddling

4:00:00

Running

1:35:00

Cycling

1:18:00

Total

6:53:00

4:00

0:00

Thursday Jul 2
	Running (Trail) 1:05:00 [3]

	Today's run was a very thorough tour of Palgrave West, including out-and-backs near Russell's barn and Wheelie's pond. I was trying to decide whether I could enter Saturday's Creemore Vertical Challenge as a training event, given that I haven't been doing long runs lately, and it will take me 3+ hrs to get around that very hilly course. I felt fine today, especially after the first 20 minutes, and I worked on pushing up the hills. So 'Bent and I are now signed up for the race. It'll be fun to see our friends even though I haven't trained properly. We are supposed to be getting ready for a Mountain Marathon after all!

	C • Good luck then! 1
Wednesday Jul 1
	Cycling (Trainer) 1:18:00

	Happy Canada Day! The weather was on-and-off showers, so 'Bent and I hung out with the pooches for a trainer movie. Today's DVD was "The Cyclist" by an acclaimed Iranian director - one of the few movies I've ever seen in Farsi with subtitles. It wasn't one of those slick, modern Iranian films in Farsi that we all see every day; it was chock full of melodramatic music and over-acting. On the bright side, it's ideal for a trainer movie because it has lots and lots of cycling. Working with a circus promoter, the protagonist tries to bike around the town square non-stop for 7 days and 7 nights to raise money to pay for his sick wife's hospital care. Crowds gather, bets are made, vendors sell food, dishonest people get involved, and the ugly underbelly of humankind is exposed for us all to see. The End.
	Running (Trail) 30:00 [3]
	shoes: Salomon XT Wings - Tomato
	After the bike ride, 'Bent and I went for a short trail run around Palgrave West before heading to the Inglewood Farmer's Market for some Canada Day fun. I tried my new Salomon Exo 3/4 compression tights, which are supposed to hold all the energy-sapping jiggly thigh bits in place while I run. 'Bent was too much of a gentleman to comment on whether he thought the tights were working, but I liked how they felt. I also tried my new XT Wings shoes. My first pair a year ago gave me blisters and seemed prone to ankle turning, but this year's model worked just fine and felt cushy.

	C • no shoe probs 2
Tuesday Jun 30
	Note

	We came home last night to find a big box sitting on our doorstep. Yay, it was some cool Salomon gear to welcome 'Bent and me to the Salomon Flight Crew, a new group of trail runners who will act as ambassadors for the Salomon brand in our communities. Sounds like fun! I've been using their gear for years anyway, so I'm excited to be part of the team. If anyone has good or bad feedback on Salomon products, just e-mail me, and I'll pass it along since that's part of our role. They are smart, those Salomon people, because naturally I needed some clothes to match the new gear they'd sent me. So today I visited the Salomon Store in Toronto and solved that problem. Gotta love those colour names... "Tomato Red" and "Kingfisher Blue" make sense. But Phatty and Cheesesteak need to talk to those European designers about "Autobahn", "Swamp" and "Flea". (Flea?!)
Monday Jun 29
	Paddling (Kayak) 4:00:00 [3] **

	Paddled from Deer Island to the take-out at Chikanishing Creek. The weather was cloudy and sprinkly, but the winds didn't go above 10 knots, so it was fine in the open sections - although a little bouncy at times. I found a few "channels" between islands that had grown in a fair bit, and some of them defeated us today. Turns out there are a few peninsulas masquerading as islands on the map! In this photo, we were able to pass behind Bateman Island and stay out of the wind. I could paddle through the weeds for the first bit, then I had to grab weeds in my hands and pull on them to move myself ahead. Finally, I had to wade with my boat until the water got deep and open again. The mosquitoes loved the wading part. The area has a very different character on a rainy day. One of today's highlights was watching a bald eagle ignore us from a treetop. As we neared the take-out, we met seven canoes from a camp for teenaged girls. To my surprise, they sang Beatles tunes as they paddled. Considering that even my generation was too young for the Beatles (in real time, that is), I have to wonder why they weren't singing songs from less than 40 years ago!

	C • Great pics! 8

	C • Very nice 1
Sunday Jun 28
	Note

	We were hit with heavy rain and strong winds at breakfast, so we did some reading and napping followed by an energetic Inglewood vs. Palgrave Trivial Pursuit challenge in our tent. (I'd brought a box of question cards and invented a way for the game to work.) Sadly, the Inglewood team won - but they were lucky enough to get lots of Science and Nature questions! After that, we decided to warm up with some soup. It's hard to see the whitecaps on the shoals behind me in the photo, but it wouldn't have been a good time or place to be paddling. The rain stopped in the afternoon, and Richard found a forecast predicting manageable winds with some showers tomorrow. We decided to stay put to enjoy our nice campsite, then get an early start tomorrow. It was a great place to hang out. The next three pics are views looking in different directions from our "dining room". We went for an evening hike where I found a rootstock that might give Valerie a run for her money! We saw a lot of trees down like this, and we didn't remember it from other years, so we're wondering if this area was hit by an unusual storm. Another great sunset looking toward the La Cloche Mountains.

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