Training Log Archive: dbakker

C • Portugal 3

Drove over to the backside of Knox Mountain through magic estates to go running around the upper part of Knox and get some intervals in up to the summit. Planned on doing 4x2 minute zone 4. Warm-up went pretty well, but feeling pretty nauseous throughout the first interval, recovered a bit before the second, but really felt awful during the second. Last time I felt that nauseous was the Classic Sprint at Ski Nationals in Canmore (in which I did barf, profusely). Felt like I wasn't really able to push either, barely got my heart rate into low 180 toward the end of the interval despite the hill (normally can get it that high without even trying too much).

Couldn't get rid of the need to barf, so bailed on the last two intervals and just did a slow jog around. Feeling a little better now (1 hour later), but still pretty rough.

No GPS track cause had an issue with my garmin syncing thing because of an internet connectivity problem, but don't want to troubleshoot and fix that now - focusing on midterm tomorrow morning.

Here are a couple of picture I took during the warm-up before my phone battery decided it was too cold to work.


Looking north up Okanagan Lake from the north aspect of Knox Mountain



Looking south over downtown Kelowna, the pulp mill, and the bridge over Okanagan lake to West Kelowna

Had to stick around the school this afternoon to finish off collecting some spectra for my chem 335 lab.

Then got home with 20 minutes to spare before the new Orienteering Canada Cup Committee meeting thingy. We started to get things started which was good.

Basically - had to leave training for pretty late after dinner and didn't manage to do much.

Ok, this gets personal now. I started working on a school maps today in Open Orienteering Mapper, and when I tried to do a declination lookup through OOM it links through a US government lookup service. Which of course is down right now. https://governmentshutdown.noaa.gov/

Blasted nuisance. Have to go to the Canadian Version!

Was down in the south of Kelowna for church anyways this morning, so right after mass went drove another 8 minutes down the road and ran in Myra Bellevue. The trailhead was gated off, but lots of cars parking along the road just outside it (makes me wonder why they close the trailhead in winter?).

Got about 15 minutes into my run before my right foot started hurting again - very frustrating. Stopped to stretch several times throughout the run. Conditions varied from hard packed, to slightly packed with my foot slipping out all the time.

Really nice day out, the clouds burned off so it was really bright and sunny.


View looking south west from the top part of the run in a little part of the huge chunk that burned in 2003

Beautiful ski up at Kelowna Nordic. Really worth the drive to get up above the Valley Cloud:

Right foot issues has resurfaced a bit in the last part of this week - rather frustrating.

Didn't get around to uploading this to my personal site and embedding - took the cheater route and posted a picture to Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtHjdjPlbnh/?utm_sourc...

Reino Loppet Video Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr7fN6z6oN4&fe...