Wednesday Feb 28 |
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| Slipped around on the snowy roads of Fort Frances. Found the curling club, outdoor hockey rinks and ski trails. Felt sluggish. maybe it was the snow. maybe it was the crazy headwind, maybe it was just my lazy butt complaining! |
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| Wanted to ski tonight, but apparently I have to save that for the weekends (or after daylight savings) since the bobcats come out at night and I guess they like to pounce. |
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| C • Bobcats 7 |
Monday Feb 26 |
| Running (Treadmill) 30:00 [3] | |
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| Pre-weights warm-up. |
| Strength (Weights) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Checked out The Fort's community centre gym. Have to say that it wasn't terribly exciting. I made use of the limited supplies to do some dumbell rows, weighted squats, bench press, bicep curls, and rotator cuff routine. Wasn't feeling very into it. |
Sunday Feb 25 |
| XC Skiing 35:00 [4] | |
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| Lookout loop at Kamview. Was still in racing mode from yesterday and the snow was feeling soooo good! |
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| C • Nice Slice:) Looks like you're... 2 |
| XC Skiing (Skate) 50:00 [3] | |
| slept:9.0 |
| Checked out Kamview in TBay this morning. Nice little spot. Skied the Aspen, Lookout and Beaver trails. I felt a little unsteady at first - the snow was very fast under my freshly waxed skis - but I finally settled in for a nice little training session! Lovely to be skiing again. I love skiing. Did I mention that I love skiing/ |
Saturday Feb 24 |
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| 8 hrs of driving.... |
| XC Skiing race (Skate) 1:05:00 [4]15 km (4:20 / km) | |
| slept:8.0 |
| Fun Time Trial at Stokely Creek Lodge just north of Sault Ste Marie. Conditions were alright - nice and icy fast in some parts, but deeper snow in others that made you feel like your legs were made of lead and that your lungs were about to explode! Terrain was varied with some steep hils, long flat spots, and fast downhills. Beautful sunny day! Went up there with Lawrence, who Classic skied and beat me by about 10min! But, I might have been 1st in the women's skate. Oh yeah, maybe I should mention that I may have been the only female skate skier there.....I would have known how I'd place had I not taken off as soon as I partook in some of the delicious chilli and sausages that they had as part of the post-race celebration. I'll post official results as soon as I get Mr.Foster on the phone. |
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| C • The Soo 5 |
Friday Feb 23 |
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| 8 hrs of driving... |
Tuesday Feb 20 |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
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| Running intervals 40:00 [5] | |
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| Phew! Nasty 1-2-3-2-1 intervals up at Chedoke. Terrain had a dip so we ran down and then up again and then back on a fast flat part. Snow was deep and heavy on the hilly part.
The first interval felt terrible but after that I managed to push hard. Almost felt like I was to the point of losing my lunch! Tried to keep up with Sudden on the last 1min interval, but to no avail.... |
| Running (Stairs) 8:00 [3] | |
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| 10 steps alternating doubles and singles |
Monday Feb 19 |
| Strength 55:00 [4] | |
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| Lots of stuff. Circuit included: chin-ups, flys and military press, push-ups, sit-ups, jumping chin-up thingies, body twists. Ripping!! Oh yeah, and I blasted on some one-armed standing rows. |
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| C • No blasting? Come'on you must... 2 |
Sunday Feb 18 |
| Orienteering 1:29:42 [4]*** | |
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| THOMASS Caledon. Once again the fabulous Leaninmal and I teamed up for another great morning of exercise and orienteering domination. Unfortunately, we seemed to have forgotten about the "domination" part of it. We made some silly mistakes which probably taught us a good lesson about route planning but did add some more of the "exercise" component to the day so not all was lost.
Thanks to Bash for a great course, 'Bent for the fabulous organization skills at registration, Crash for some good brownies which I sure were delicious, and the rest of the crowd for great company! |
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| C • Sounds fun! Nice work on the s... 2 |
Saturday Feb 17 |
| Cycling (Spinning) 25:00 [5] | |
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| Cycling (Spinning) 1:15:00 [4] | |
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| Cycling (Spinning) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Spent two hours on the Suppipe bike at the Gears 24 spin-a-thon. It was great fun with all the live entertainment and amazing music and energized crowd!! Managed to push myself fairly hard - especially when good rockin' tunes like a cover of Ramble On by Led Zep and then more awesome songs by a Hip cover band - just can't keep your butt in the seat for those! |
Friday Feb 16 |
| Strength 55:00 [3] | |
| slept:6.5 |
| Post-exam blasting of the butt and thigh muscles (squats) and pectorals (bench with push-ups immediately after). Also blasted the rotator cuffs and the abs.
Sweet! |
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| C • Don't forget to rip! 1 |
Wednesday Feb 14 |
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| Brain Training: 2.5 hours so far..... |
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| C • What Level of Intensity? 3 |
| Yoga 45:00 [2] | |
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| Magically Hips routine. Felt nice!!! |
| Running 15:00 [2] | |
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| Running up to the car dealership to buy my new car!!! Yipeeee! I threw in some extra resistance to my jog by wearing my Sorel's. |
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| C • New Car! 3 |
Tuesday Feb 13 |
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| Very tired today. This week and next week at school are crazy crazy busy. I handed in two papers today and have an exam this friday and two next week. Oh, and this is on top of all the regular classwork that is due this week as well....yes, I feel like a lazy bum for not logging many hours, but sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. |
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| Oh yeah, and I won't make TNT tonight. I fled from the flurries and am now home safe. |
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| C • Flurry Fleeing 8 |
Sunday Feb 11 |
| Running 55:00 [3]10 km (5:30 / km) | |
| slept:9.5 |
| This run felt waaaay better than I thought it would. It was one of those nights where you feel that there are a million things that are trying to hold you back in the house instead of going out in the cold! I almost didn't make it when, just as I was about to leave, hansel came in the door from his ride and talked about how cold it was!!! Luckily I managed to dig deep run out the door before his chattering teeth convinced me to stay. |
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| C • as if hansel knows what cold i... 3 |
Saturday Feb 10 |
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| Phew! Fingers sure got a workout on the keyboard today!!!!
Man o man, I think I need to eat some carbs.... |
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| C • Heavy Keyboard Workout 5 |
Thursday Feb 8 |
| Running intervals 12:30 [5] | |
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| Beep Test - Fitness test for Imperial Dragons.
I think each level is one minute long, so since I made it to 12.5 I'm putting that this workout was 12.5min long. It may have actually been longer than that....I'll have to ask hansel once he wakes up from drooling on the couch. |
| Other (Floor Hockey!!) 40:00 [3] | |
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| Other (Dodge Ball!!) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Good fun with the Imps after the beep test. I suck at throwing. |
Wednesday Feb 7 |
| Cycling (Spinning) 1:00:00 [4] | |
| slept:7.0 |
| Gears spin at 6am with hansel.
I think it was just an accomplishment to get out of bed for this class, let alone manage to push myself through a very steady stream of sweat. Good feeling to have the legs spinning again. |
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| C • Dunno how you do it! 2 |
Tuesday Feb 6 |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [3] | |
| slept:5.5 |
| Warm-up run from school and out to meet Bob and up to Chedoke. I felt really tired tonight. Even the warm-up felt like a chore!! |
| Running intervals 35:00 [4] | |
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| 1-3-5 min intervals with 1 min rest X 3 - Flats
Still felt tired, glad we did flats tonight. Tired to run with a more powerful and lengthened stride. Man, that's a little more tiring on the legs but it would be oh so good to work up those muscles and improve my running style! |
| Running (Stairs) 10:00 [4] | |
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| Stairs have not been feeling quite as great as they used to. I was feelin' it but still managed to push hard.
10 times smallies and doublies. |
Monday Feb 5 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warmin' up for the Imperial Dragon's fitness test! |
| Strength 15:00 [5] | |
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| Short but painful. Imps fitness test - bench, reverse pull-ups, sit-ups and sit-n-reach. |
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| C • set any records? i'm sure you ... 1 |
Saturday Feb 3 |
| XC Skiing 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| Great 1st ski of the year!!! P8 up Fortune Hill to #1 to Champlain back down the parkway and onto #1 again back down to P8. Great day with some sunshine, decent snow and good company: hansel, Monsieur Beaudry and Susan.
Ahhhh, the Gatineau hills.... |
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| C • Ski-o-rama 3 |
Thursday Feb 1 |
| Running 1:30:00 [2] | |
| slept:6.0 |
| Nice easy evening with the TNT Runners, which now apparently need to be distinguished from the TNT Skiers. Runners tonight: Jbird, TVP, Bob, Meridian, Greta, Moi. Skiers tonight: Etoile, Hammer, Zoolander. Who looked much more graceful? Runners. Greta likes to jump on skiers.
Ran the winter rally loop with uneven terrain, patches of deep snow and flat light. Makes for good proprioceptive practice and quick reflexes.
Ran back to school via The Long Way. |