Training Archive: LeanimalIn the 7 days ending 2007-04-14:
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Saturday Apr 14 | ||
| Road Running 1:10:00 [3] | |
| Phatty and I headed out on the roads and railtrail of Orillia. I felt like doo-doo. The legs just don't feel strong. Maybe they aren't recovered from last weekend but that seems like a long time to recover.... | ||
Friday Apr 13 | ||
| Road Riding 1:10:00 [5] | |
| On my way to my dentist appointment - Friday the 13th -aaagghhh. It wasn't as bad as I thought - my new dentist is AWESOME!
One word for the ride on the way there - HEADWIND. I was in the easiest gear going downhill - fierce. | ||
| Road Riding 40:00 [4] | |
| Made it home a lot faster than on the way there. I actually felt like someone was pushing me up the hills. Felt good because my dentist said I have textbook perfect TMJ function. As a chiro I can appreciate the movement of a healthy joint!!!! | ||
| C • Your TMJ 4 | ||
Wednesday Apr 11 | ||
| Road Running 40:00 [3] | |
| Phatty and I headed out in the windy cold, blah weather to run off a bit of the leftover tightness from our weekends. My legs felt okay but near the end my hips and knees were a little sore. Hopefully the stretching that I am now going to be soooooo dedicated to will alleviate those pains. | ||
Sunday Apr 8 | ||
| Trekking 20:30:00 [2] | |
| Travelling across the ridges at night was difficult as some of the cairns are difficult to see and some people had REALLY CRAPPY headlamps (T-dot). You would think after 10 years of AR and numerous Eco-challenge and international races she would have a decent headlamp....So we had to spread out to search at points and with the fatigue setting in we were sometimes doing a half-assed job of searching so it took a while. The chatter mellowed during the night and it seemed that the pit stops were coming more frequently.
We spent a lot of time on ridges during the night because of the time we had to start but we did manage to get a couple of great views in as the sun came up and boy was that a pick-up! Not only that the sky was clear and the sun was warming us up..... I had the map and was impressed with the kms we were covering across the northern section of the trail and could see that as we started to head south on the map there was a large flat section on that I thought we would cover pretty quickly - WRONG! This section was drawn as a straight line on the map but was really tortuous once we got there. I started to give us time goals to landmarks so that we could stay focussed but when we were 1 1/2 hours off of our first goal we got a little deflated and realized we might be out after dark again - oops! A lot of new beaver dams and wet lowlands made for some long detours as we were trying to keep our feet somewhat dry (lost cause). Talk of our post-trek burrito feast had us motivated to pick up the pace and with T-dot singing songs of bacon and walking at a breakneck pace we covered a bit more ground.... FINALLY after almost 29 hours of trekking we reached the much anticipated bridge at the campground - thank god. Our trek wasn't over though as we searched for the trail to the main office in our sleep deprived state. Our feet and knees were throbbing and we were lost - in the campground. Eventually we found the cars, set up camp, made a fire and some delicious burritos and even had a celebratory beer! It still took a bit of time to fall asleep (for Slice and I anyway) as there was a vicious animal fight outside our tents. As soon as I confirmed it wasn't a bear to La Femme she was out cold but Slice and I continued to listen to what we thought was a rabid fox until we just couldn't stay awake anymore..... A great trip (more so after the fact) with amazing scenery (I have to go back and do this as a more leisurely hiking/camping trip) and spectacular company......at breakfast the next day we laughed hysterically over tales of the trip and even forgot the pain to say we would be back (or at least we would pick another adventure for our girls weekend) I will be posting a shot for the photo contest later today! Thanks ladies! | ||
| C • Impressive! 3 | ||