Saturday Mar 31 |
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| Out on the roads of Caledon with Phatty and STORM. I was a little tired from yesterdays run and started to get dropped on the hills from the get-go - yikes. Huge kudos to STORM for riding the knobbies the whole way. Phatty and I are still waiting for our MTN bikes to get fixed and after a convo with the mechanic yesterday it looks like it is going to cost me a pretty penny.
Cold, windy, and hilly on the ride so it was a good workout but it was all I could do to hold on! |
Friday Mar 30 |
| Trail Running 1:10:00 [4] | |
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| Decided to run with my MP3 player and it seems whenever I do this on the trails I have deer run right out in front of me and scaring the sh*t out of me because I don't hear them. Ran faster because of the tunes - nothing like a little "JT" to make you run faster. |
| Trail Running 1:10:00 [4] | |
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| Ran with my MP3 player on and it seems whenever I do this I have deer run across the trail in front of me and they scare the sh*t out of me because I don't hear them coming. Serves me right for listening to music instead of the sounds of nature. Pace was quicker because I was listening to some JT..... |
Wednesday Mar 28 |
| Road Riding 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| Took advantage of the sunny day but had to bundle up since it was cool and windy. Followed a red fox up Glasgow road. Lots of stretching afterward - boy does that feel good. |
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| C • You scored some tail on Glasgo... 1 |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Trail Running 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Hit the HVT with Bash and was overdressed for the occasion. Luckily Bash brought along a pack so she could carry my extra gear for me!!! Warm and sunny and really muddy, just the way we like it! |
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| C • you dirty girls. 2 |
Sunday Mar 25 |
| Road Riding 1:20:00 [2] | |
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| Met up with STORM, team Beowulf, and Mike for a brick workout near Georgetown. Started with a 1hr20min road ride and Phatty and I were the cheaters with road bikes while everyone else had MTN bikes. Ours are in the shop - seriously. |
| Trail Running 2:20:00 [3] | |
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| Followed the ride up with a good trail run. My glutes and hams were getting pretty tight by the end and man was I hungry! Great to get out with a group again! |
Saturday Mar 24 |
| Orienteering 2:00:00 [4] | |
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| Three sprints at the Thomass eliminator and guess who got eliminated. Although there is a lot of talk about people missing a control on the first course. Maybe I didn't get eliminated after all. Did okay until the final course when I blew by my last control - oops! Fun courses but crappy weather. |
Friday Mar 23 |
| Road Riding 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| AAGGGHh finally outside riding. Phatty and I couldn't pass up the fading sunshine so we hit the sideroads for an hour before the sun went down... |
Wednesday Mar 21 |
| Road Running 1:21:00 [3] | |
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| Ran with Phatty when he got home from work....Legs were a little stiff from the squats and lunges. Pathetic since I have to expect that those legs will get me up and over mountains on the west coast for six days during Extreme in June. |
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| C • I thought you guys were doing ... 3 |
| Strength training 30:00 [3] | |
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| Push-ups, curls, squats, lunges, abs, etc. |
| Yoga 30:00 [1] | |
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| My "yoga journal" subscription has little home practice sections that are great for variety....now I just have to get a cool cd to play... |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| Trail Running 1:15:00 [2] | |
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| Great trail run with Bash and Crash along the HVT. A little chillier than I had anticipated and my bottom paid the price. The trail is getting a little less slick but there are still some mini-glaciers spilling over it in spots. Great fun running with other people - we'll have to make it a regular occurance... |
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| C • Thanks! 4 |
Monday Mar 19 |
| Riding indoor (Trainer) 1:30:00 [2] | |
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| Yuck! |
Sunday Mar 18 |
| Orienteering 45:00 [5] | |
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| Hilton Falls area Thomass race and I didn't have Slice to accompany me this time - boo hoo! I was warned to pace count and follow my bearing closely since the terrain is pretty flat but the course wasn't that difficult and you could almost see one control from the next so I managed okay despite tired legs from Saturday....Congrats to Bash for taking the race and elbowing Mark Adams out of the way for the win...... |
Saturday Mar 17 |
| Trail Running 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| Out on the HVT with the MIX team. The body felt good except for some cramping. We made our way south from near Bash and Bent's house to our place. The trail was really slippery from melted snow that had refrozen into a nice long sheet of ice. We all managed to go down a couple of times and I think Tiny had the only lasting damage with a bruise.....great way to start the day before heading into TO to see the Banff Film Festival films....amazing, inspiring, beautiful, and so creative. I am thinking maybe I should bring along some extra batteries for my camera to enter a film next year from this year's RTN Extreme race in Prince Rupert. Nothing like a few minutes of some sleep deprived teammates in the middle of the night in the middle of the Canadian wilderness..... |
Thursday Mar 15 |
| Riding indoor (Trainer) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Blah! |
Wednesday Mar 14 |
| Riding indoor (Trainer) 1:14:00 [3] | |
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| Foot is still really sore so I opted for the trainer and used the commercials to up the intensity. Why do I always end up having to ride the trainer because of my feet when the weather outside is so nice - aaghghhgh. |
| Stretching 15:00 [0] | |
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| Of course my IT band is starting to bug me again because I don't stretch enough. This felt really good though... |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
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| Continuing to use my feet as an excuse - will have to get on the bike tomorrow since it is non-weightbearing and shouldn't hurt my feet. |
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| C • Oh No! 1 |
Monday Mar 12 |
| Note | |
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| Feet are killing me from the weekend. I think I gave myself tendonitis on the tops of my feet from the snowshoes. Hard to walk. |
Sunday Mar 11 |
| Orienteering 6:24:00 [4] | |
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| We were a little more conservative today but knew we had to move well to get all of the controls, especially on sore feet. So an hour and a half after everyone else left Phatty and I headed out. Today felt better surprisingly (except the feet) and we were able to run a lot of the course. We also got to see Tiny and Fast Eddie and Bash and Bent on the course.
With about 10 minutes to spare we were headed toward the finish only to see Bash and Bent flying out on their skate skis to get a couple of more controls. They were determined to use them since they brought them all the way down there. With about 2 minutes to go they were back! So in the end Phatty and I just got enough points to claim 1st in the co-ed categorty while Bash and Bent were right behind us for second. Good Canadian showing. Tiny and Fast Eddie were the victors from our crew by one hundred points and were 4th in the all-male category (third place was captured by a man who wore camoflage spandex with a bright orange hunting jacket - scary stuff).
All in all a great event, only $35 for the whole thing, and a fun road trip down in the "bullfrog" van.
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| C • Sounds like a fun wkend! 13 |
Saturday Mar 10 |
| Orienteering 8:31:00 [5] | |
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| To the "Snowgaine" in New York with Bash, Bent, Phatty, Tiny, and Fast Eddie! Any mode of non-motorized travel was allowed so we saw bikes, skis, and snowshoes. Phatty and I just had snowshoes so the decision on what to use would be easy. With little rogaine experience and not much time with the maps we quickly plotted a course and off we went (a couple of minutes late but what was that over 8 hours). The day consisted of climbing, descending, crossing ski hills, addressing my blister issues many times, and lots of snowshoeing. With lofty goals we had plotted most of the controls in one section and about halfway through realized this might not be attainable. And we were getting further away from the start/finish area. If you went over the allowable 8hours then you were penalized by taking the time you were late, multiplying by three, and then starting that much later on day 2.
After abondoning a 100 point control because we were trying to avoid private property (which apparently you could go on if it wasn't close to someone's house - and you didn't get caught by the land owner) we made our way back toward the road to run home. On the map the 8km didn't look long but after 8hours of snowshoeing it was a real struggle to get back. We made it but we were 31 minutes late which meant a 10:03 am start the next day instead of 8:30 am - oops! |
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| C • 4!?! 1 |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| Trail Running 1:15:00 [3] | |
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| Ran from the clinic to meet Slowrunner again for the second portion of the HVT. Gorgeous day. I have to laugh at these people who come into the clinic and complain about the cold when it is sunny and warm (relatively) out there. Saw a big beautiful deer on the way to meet Slowrunner. |
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| C • do you find it challenging wor... 6 |
Wednesday Mar 7 |
| Yoga 35:00 [1] | |
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| Riding indoor (Trainer) 35:00 [2] | |
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| Phatty stole the quiet trainer so I had to use my old one which is soooooooo loud it gives me a headache. I only lasted 35 minutes and couldn't take it anymore (good excuse huh?) The resistance on it is also so low and won't change even when I am in the hardest gear so it is more like a light spin workout. |
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| C • Jigsaw Puzzle 6 |
Tuesday Mar 6 |
| Trail Running 20:00 [4] | |
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| Just missed Slowrunner heading onto the HVT so I had to hoof it to catch her. Picked it up a bit after we finished on the way home for lunch. More because I was hungry than anything else. |
| Trail Running 1:05:00 [3] | |
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| With Slowrunner on the HVT. Lots of sun, no wind, and some killer ankle rolling terrain and a couple of big snowdrifts. Fun to run with someone else so I think we are going to try to do this more often. |
| Power Walking 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Had to keep moving so my behind wouldn't freeze. It did anyways.... |
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| C • Gotta ask... 7 |
Monday Mar 5 |
| Riding indoor (Trainer) 50:00 [2] | |
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| Spun out the legs from the weekend! |
Sunday Mar 4 |
| Snowshoeing 4:30:00 [3] | |
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| Hit Algonquin Park with Phatty and my big Sis! While "The Bakes" went birding the three of us went south from the Western Uplands parking lot overland to hit some lakes. SLOW going in there and thankfully Phatty took the lead with his long legs because the snow was knee deep with snowshoes on. Hip deep in some parts. Absolutely gorgeous in there and to top it off we saw a large bull moose about 5 minutes in! Gotta love Algonquin. Sunny for most of the day and with the exception of one close call on a lake (shin deep slush) a perfect day. Found out there are lots of nordic trails in there too (found this out when we saw flourescent colours streaking by in the woods in front of us) - will have to go back for those. Tough on the hip flexors. |
Friday Mar 2 |
| Road Running 50:00 [4] | |
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| Hills - ugggh. Felt slow even though I was wearing my new "fast" tights. Windy and snowy which is okay when it's at your back! Had to be done. |
Thursday Mar 1 |
| Riding indoor (Trainer) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Nasty weather outside so I once again jumped on the bike and ramped it up on the commercials... |
| Strength training 15:00 [3] | |
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| Squats, abs, push-ups, and lunges followed by a couple of minutes of stretching. I am such a hypocrite!!! |