Training Log Archive: emilyr

Working on technique and rotating our body. We did a little mock race with another boat but we were so bad with timing our coach stopped us midway through our start. Oops. Absolutely beautiful day out! Out on the boat for 1.5 hours.

Coming home along the Seawall from dragon boating. Walk 1 jog 1. Clearly something was a little messed up with my heart rate as I don't think I hit 194... Time to go vote (1 mayor, 10 city councillors, 9 school board, and 7 park board)!

Groove Ride at Cyklus. I’m enjoying the after work spin class on Fridays. The hard bit of the workout was 3 x 3 minutes. It was tough! Small class today with generally strong riders. It was one one of my favorite instructors, but she's going away soon for the winter.

My really good friend from undergrad, Leah, was in town today, so I took the day off to do an adventure with her! We started off going to St. Mark's Summit, but it only took us an hour and a half so decided to carry on to Mount Unnecessary (Unnecessary Mountain?). It was such a gorgeous day and the views were much better than the time Kate and I did the Howe Sound Crest Trail, haha. There were some fairly aggressive birds who were vying for our lunch. Finished it off with some recovery bubble tea. :) Only counted moving time. We were out for about 6 hours.

Hey look, I went for a run! I've joined a running clinic at Allan McGavin Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy in an attempt to get me running again and hopefully progressing in a safe manner that doesn't cause any lower leg flare-ups. Had a pretty small group tonight for the first session, but everyone seemed nice. We did 8 x 3 minute jog and 1 minute walk intervals. Nice night! Forgot my Garmin but just used Strava on my phone. It said I had 110m of elevation but that's pretty much impossible on that stretch of the seawall.

Power Cycle class with Shelley. Had to do 2 sets of 3 x 1 minute intervals that were pretty exhausting! Spin classes are definitely a good mental toughness training. Nice to break up the day with some exercise.