Training Log Archive: Leanimal

What an incredible day out on the Hockley Valley Trail. There was a large group of runners and a smaller group of us "hikers". Nice and sunny out with no wind and just a light dusting of snow in some places until the sun hit them. Followed the hike up with a great lunch across the road with some of the running group.....perfect day!

A great session in the HVT with KD before she came to the clinic for "bring your kid to work day". We figured with how much we look alike that nobody would question it. KD made all of the route choices and took the lead and did a fantastic job. Great way to start the day.

Warm up run to our start location for some orienteering practice.

I'll put this down as trail running as we did hit some trails but we also were on road, in parks, climbing over goal posts (not me), swinging on gates, going down slides, and climbing in buggies at the grocery store. All as part of a surprise "baby shower" that Coach LD, Annette and Rita planned for Phatty and I. Of course Phatty had to miss out on all of the fun because he is in Vancouver for the day but the best part was that despite an endless amount of times that I should have clued in to what was going on I had no idea until we were all on Annette's front lawn making human pyramids! That's the baby brain for you. It also speaks to the group of people that we hang out with that I thought nothing of Coach LD handing out maps with elaborate "poem based" clue sheets that had us running around town taking photos at various locations before getting to Zehr's and having to run into the women's washroom to take a photo of the change table and then hitting aisle three for another snapshot of some huggies diapers.....nope still didn't get the gist of what was going on here. Just another Caledon Navigator's training night as far as I was concerned. We ended with some great food at Annette's and an EXTREMELY generous gift from the group - an awesome pack for the kiddie with all of the bells and whistles (literally there is one on the chest strap!). What a great group and that is my kind of shower!!!!

C • was looking for the like button :-) 5

Nice brisk walk on the HVT! Had to wear a toque and mitts today but the sun was out and it was gorgeous.

Great orienteering session with Coach LD at the peak-to-peak at Mt. Nemo. We picked our routes wisely and became fairly proficient at identifying individual rock piles by the end. Beauty day!