Training Log Archive: the kempster

to and from carleton. going through the farm really sucked cause of the wind coming right across... just a little nippy!!

Run down and around the canal with Robbie. Nice and easy pace and gorgeous weather.

to and from my friend's house!!!

Some intense warmup drills and relays for gym!!!

some of the push-ups out there were rather... saggy? :S :P

running to and from the hill

Same as last week cept my time up the hill was a good 5 or 6 seconds faster which was kinda weird cause i didn't think that i was going much faster this week. anyways, only did it 8 times and definitely did not feel like doing an extra after that!!

only logging this cause it included quite a few rocket ship flights all the way up two flights of stairs to mars carrying a 5yr old kid... and then a 3yr old... and then many many times over until the rocket had to go back to base for some maintenance!! :P

Skied out to Western with the team... then did the short loop with the humongous hill which was quite treacherous... then back to Western for a yummilicous dinner... and then booting it back to P10 to make it back to Ottawa in time for band!!! conditions were regular spring conditions... slushy in the sun... and icey in the shade... just lovely!!!

I intended on biking to tutoring... but after trying about 5 different bikes i found in my garage... i ended up running instead. one bike didn't have a chain, the other no pedal, yet another with no air in the tires, the 4th just didn't go anywhere, and then my last hope felt like it was gonna fall apart beneath me. So started out running, and passed some friends waiting at the bus stop... talked to them on the run, kept going, cut through the mall (fastest route choice) passed the dad of the kid i was supposed to be tutoring who was driving somewhere... kept running, and then turned down this street, passed the guys who had been waiting for the bus and had just gotten off... they kinda looked at me disbelievingly cause somehow i had gone the same distance that they had... just i had run, and gotten there at the same time. finally made it to my destination and the kid's dad drove up in the driveway. he had supposedly been looking for me on his way back to give me a drive but i beat him to his house!!!! :P teehee!!! quite an interesting run for sure!!!! :P

Not quite an exciting run home...

some more conditioning for self defence...

Running down to the start of the intervals, and then the run back with a little bit of stretching the kinks out.

Ran 6 sets of 2 loops of about 450m for each loop... although running it, it felt much longer... the 'faster' group added on a bit of a hill to each loop which was challenging especially with the head wind... and then the 'fast' group just did the normal loops. By the 4th and 5th set, i was about 20m behind the 2 other guys, but then on the last one, we just did one loop, and i managed to crank out enough to actually stay pretty much in the lead the whole time!! hooray!!!! calves really sore... though not exactly sure from what... hmm.

conditioning for self defence!!! lots of running, and then push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks... and something else i can't remember.

Went out by myself while my dad took ian and molly out on the closer trails... really getting sick of doing fortune hill but i think i'm getting better at it! :P didn't quite do the whole loop since i was kinda crammed for time... and even then i had to bring up to just under race pace for the last part on the #3 which was fast with all of the hills!!!!

the usual!!!!

Same loop as last Monday... except this time we went early... much too early... in the morning, so there were even less people!! We also did an extra little loop at the far end before heading back down the #1. Didn't wipe out on the huge hill this time... although it was close. I missed the extremely sharp turn that i had no hope of turning anyways and kept going down the trail and down an extra hill before i finally got myself stopped. although climbing back up a little hill is definitely much more enjoyable than crashing and doing a face plant. Really fast conditions though I didn't actually feel like skiing that fast until the 45min mark... hehe i think it took me that long to just wake up a little bit.