Terrain running1:55:00 [3] 18 km (6:23 / km) +888m 5:07 / km
Long run with Henrik up towards Grouse Mountain. Started on some crazy mountain bike trails. Later came to the gravel road and ran up that. Eventually we came to where the snowclearing machine hadn't gone any further. Had to run on top of 2m deep snow. Hardpacked snow, only sank down about 10 cm. Still quite heavy running. Really wanted to make it to the top of the mountain, but there was no way we had enough time to do it. Turned around at 880m elevation, in heavy snowfall. Ran back down the road, and cut through the forest off trail. Made a mistake when we followed the Baden Powel trail the wrong way. Very nice run today!!
Video from yesterday:
Saturday Apr 5
Trail running52:39 [2] 9.62 km (5:28 / km) +340m 4:39 / km
shoes: New Balance crazy terrain runn
Training at SFU. Went a bit early to watch Henrik compete at the 1500 m track race. Afterwards we went for a nice run with Magnus around the mountain. Henrik set a new PB on the 1500m, 04:00:48:
Friday Apr 4
Running2:57 [5] 1 km (2:57 / km)
shoes: New Balance crazy terrain runn
Storm the Wall finals. Ran with my grippy runners instead of the flats, because of the rain. Benoit quite good on the bike today, catching about 20 secs on all the teams. Had a good run today, passed 4 teams. Henrik ran with me from 600m and in to make sure the pace was kept up. Jonathan said I had 2:57 min. Got pretty badly screwed on the wall, because they tried to put all 8 teams onto one wall. We didn't really have any space to get up, and the neighbouring team kept pushing and take up our space. Justin fell down because we couldn't get to him and help him in time. 14:45, and 5th place. Oh well, next year.
Running50:00 [3] 9 km (5:33 / km)
shoes: New Balance crazy terrain runn
Warm up / cool down with Henrik for Storm the Wall. Maybe 8 strides 5 to 15 mins before the race, worked well.
Thursday Apr 3
Running race 2:59 [5] 1 km (2:59 / km)
shoes: Asics MagicRacers
Storm the wall semi-finals. Quite a good race by us today, 3rd overall with 14:14, fastest in our heat, and 7 seconds behind the fastest time. Benoit performed well on the cycle, leaving me with no work, I suspect I'll have quite a bit of work tomorrow. After analysis Henrik's video we noticed that we lost around 20 seconds on the wall compared to the other team.
Coach Henrik's nice video:
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 5 km (4:00 / km)
shoes: Asics MagicRacers
Warm up for Storm the Wall.
Intervals4:31 [5] 1.6 km (2:49 / km)
shoes: John's Nike shoes
Intervals at the track with the track team. The others did 8 by 400m, I did 4 so that I'm not completely wasted for tomorrow's race. Kept quite good speed today, 68s, 68s, 67s, 68s. Henrik impressing by averaging 61.5 on 8 intervals. Henrik let me test run his Turbo Goast track spikes. Quite nice feeling.
Running warm up/down 55:00 [2] 10 km (5:30 / km)
shoes: John's Nike shoes
Various warm up / cool down / strides / etc.
Wednesday Apr 2
Running25:00 [2] 5 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: John's Nike shoes
Placing controls for the WET.
Tuesday Apr 1
Running50:00 [3] 8 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: John's Nike shoes
Checking control locations for tomorrow's WET.
Monday Mar 31
Running race 3:00 [5] 1 km (3:00 / km)
shoes: Asics MagicRacers
Storm the Wall Qualifying heat. Team whyjustrun.ca includes Meghan Molnar (swimmer), Petra (sprint), Benoit (the flying bikeman), Justin (veteran wall expert), and Cecilia (Petra's Swedish friend). Support staff includes Coach Henrik. Maybe I need to work on coach Markez?
Petra was #3 coming up the hill and knew it wouldn't take Benoit long to overtake the lead. Benoit left everyone in the dust and gave me a lead with over 30 secs. Didn't go all out, felt a little tired. Don't know what my time was. We did pretty well at the wall. Won by 1:50. Still around 20 secs slower than in 2006, but we have a few areas we can gain some time. The flying bikeman had already done one heat for a different team only 2 hours earlier.
