Sunday Sep 30 |
 | Cycling 45:00 [2] | |
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Saturday Sep 29 |
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 Loop |
Thursday Sep 27 |
| Cycling 40:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Sep 26 |
| Running 25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| To and from Prince Island Park |
| Running 16:50 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| FWOC Sprint Champs. More like I ran like a sprint chump! But joking aside I didn't come into it expecting much since I haven't had much raw speed over the past few years. 2 bigger boggles otherwise just was gased by the end. 1 min or so mistakes/tired since the other dude caught me between starting intervals. Otherwise pretty fun.
Wish I could have stayed for the spaghetti dinner at the Spaghetti Factory but have to do a test, read a chapter and come up with a scenario for my CPR class. Nuts, haven't done course work for over a year and half! I know if I don't do it, Maxine our instructor will have a caniption. A little off camber that one. |
Tuesday Sep 25 |
| Cycling 40:00 [2] | |
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Monday Sep 24 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 Loop. Felt like a fat kid chasing an ice cream truck - sluggish and desperate to get to the end. |
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| C • Zoolander 3 |
Friday Sep 21 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 Loop. Just letting out some steam at an easy pace, another grumpy day at the office. Pretty nice even though its 14C here. Crazy how fast the trees have turn colours and general cool weather here. Even snowed the other day briefly.
Nothing exciting this weekend. Likely some rest and catch up on errands I've been needing to do. |
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| C • Nothing Exciting This Weekend 5 |
Thursday Sep 20 |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
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| Running intervals 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| Tried to do some pyramid stair intervals. Tough with lots of people and couldn't get the length of it right. I think i know what to do next time to lengthen the time and intensity. But wow, I thought Chedoke was packed at times! |
Tuesday Sep 18 |
| Cycling 40:00 [2] | |
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| Down by the river...I shot my baby. |
Monday Sep 17 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 Loop |
Sunday Sep 16 |
| Cycling 1:20:00 [2] | |
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| Easy ride around the city. Route |
Saturday Sep 15 |
| Hiking (6hrs total ~3hrs of up) 3:00:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Montrail CD |
| Mt. Allan (2819m). 1.4K vertical gain in 7.3K to the top. Getting to the top of this wasn't too bad once on the ridge but the initial climb up to Olympic summit at Nakiska was a be-atch!
Time to climb like the sign man says. Big steps.
Looking on the ridge to the summit. Mid way up are the rock pinnicles.
Where's Meridian? Giant pinnacles.
Sherpa at work taking some photos of the clients
At the top. Surveyor marker at my foot. But I like the cairn better.
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| C • Captain Morgan 2 |
Thursday Sep 13 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 loop. Felt tired and probably visibly tired. Hammies and calves tight.
Needed rest day yesterday but all this lab moving is taking its toll. Maybe if i scream union or health and safety they'll hire someone to do a movers work. I guess this is what is meant under the job description "and other tasks". I'm tempted to fake a back injury and see what would happen, man would heads roll faster than a bowling ball.
On a good note thankfully my mom is good to go. All tests show that there isn't anything too wrong and hopefully some pills will control the problem they see and no surgery will be required. Apparently if they found something during the scope test they would have done open heart surgery right then and there. I can sleep much better now. Thanks to those who sent me personal messages, really appreciated them. |
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| C • Great News! 4 |
Tuesday Sep 11 |
| Cycling (commute) 40:00 [2] | |
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| To and from work. Either way have to get out of the Bow Valley to get to work decided to do it right from the start. Bad move. It hurt. |
Monday Sep 10 |
| Cycling (commute) 25:00 [1] | |
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| Dropped off the rental but decided to haul my bike to ride to work and back. This week is going to suck at work if it was anything like today. |
Sunday Sep 9 |
| Hiking (5.5 hrs total, 2hrs up) 2:00:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Montrail CD |
| So I decided to do a hike to summit Mt. Burke with the Strackersons after Saturday's doozy. So Mt. Burke is named after a Denis Charles Burke a former NW Mounted Police officer in 1919 who had a ranch below the mountain itself. In 1929 the Alberta Forest Service established a fire tower at the summit (2643m) which still exists today but was decommissioned in 1953. Poor horses that hauled that wood up there!
The hike itself started in a river valley but was ill marked. We unfortunately did aparallel error up the wrong creek (trust me it wasn't obvious with the trees) and added an extra 40 min to our adventure trying to find this route up the ridge. When we finally got started going up it gained in a hurry and had quite a dusting of snow at higher elevation. I even had time to practice some snow angels!
At the top it was picturesque as you can tell and the hut looked like a little sherpa shack in Nepal. Fun hike despite being tired.
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| Hammer - we went to this place called Marvello's Soda Shop in Butt-F nowhere Alberta. When i walked into this place I was like, where is Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace! The menu had stuff like, the Big Bopper Whopper, Peggy Sue, the La bamba, Buddy Holly burger etc etc. The waitresses were all dressed in the attire and everything. Trippy. But to top it all off they had a $4.00 shake, however I don't know if it was worth the 4 dollars |
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| C • $4 shake 12 |
Saturday Sep 8 |
| Running race 3:30:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Montrail CD (2) |
| Moose Mountain 29K. Going to try something different and do a little race report with pics. Was able to convince markg to come out but I guess he had other plans and decided to sleep in. The good old Aussie woke up 3 min before I rang his door looking pretty disoriented and dazed. But I think this was his ultimate plan (to come later). However, beer and greasy food at a Pub for me the night before is perhaps not the greatest thing to do. Needless to say we did end up at the race at a good time since it's really in the foothills of the Rockies. However we ran into these bad boys on the way in. That's Alberta for you. Superwes1000 where is the Beef bud;)
Prior to race start. We look happy for now.
The course basically starts out low and is a long gradual climb for the first 14.5K or so up to Moose Mountain with an elevation gain of 950m give or take - so not a walk in the park.
My strategy was basically to start slow build up and walk the inclines. In the end that proved to be smart since you could seriously mess yourself early in the race. First 5K was generally flat and boring along fire roads till you got to the Packers Trail where the climb started in a hurry. Fun switchbacks and the higher up you went to started to see snow! Been pretty cold here at night and the mountains had a wicked dusting of snow, but not bad here. Once at the top it was basically a ridgeline run to Moose Mountain on another fire road. MM is pretty gradual initially then turns to scree and switch backs. However the view was impressive looking down off its ridge
I lost sight of Mark after the first few Ks but found him barreling down as I was going up the final climb on the scree. The dude was rocking and ended up 7th overall in the end. So I guess it pays to sleep in! Perhaps a new strategy;)
The turn around was just below the fire tower (bottom base left just out of the pic) since its too damn steep to get up there.
Here is where I packed up the camera and sight seeing tour and started to pick up the pace. The downhill for most of it was a blastfest.
The switch to the downhill muscles wasn't too pleasant and started the good old twitch in the calves/hammies. Cramparoos. Thankfully managed to stave any bad ones and by the time I got back to the flats, it was just a slow painful grind to the end. Finished in the time frame I guessed 3.5 hrs. In the end was a brilliant race. Well organized by Jen Silverthorn, good food and a wicked buff as swag. Bang for your buck race. Great first "real" and not last trail race in AB. Treated this race as a long run with sight seeing and taking pictures. Good way to see things and a nice switch. IPod blasting and enjoying the ride. Was great to get the mind off my mom being in the hospital. Found out the other day she has a possible serious heart condition. Hopefully I'll find out what the tests show in the next few. Been a long few days. Oh no beer today but cappuccino in Bragg Creek.
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| C • m&m 7 |
Thursday Sep 6 |
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| Signed up for the Moose Mountain 29K this Saturday. Treating this like a training run since I have no idea how I'll handle a full on assult on a mountain, that and I've only ran a long run (i.e. 2hrs) once in the past 5 months. Should be a good challenge and fun.
As well signed up for Winterstart 5 miler in Banff in November which is a night run. Tara convinced me to sign up only due to the fact there will be a stay over including partying, dancing and drunken times to follow. Oh the life of these grad students. Pither, this could be the lab group of your dreams. Marshall's students are great. |
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| C • Fun 12 |
| Cycling 40:00 [1] | |
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| Very light ride. Just spinning the legs for maintenance. Light run tomorrow. Stuffing my face in between, haven't carb loaded in awhile. |
Tuesday Sep 4 |
| Cycling 40:00 [4] | |
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| A good old just give'er ride. |
Monday Sep 3 |
| Running 1:20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B-D12 loop. Very nice day out. Tired from yesterday, took awhile to warm-up. |
Sunday Sep 2 |
| Hiking 2:00:00 [1] | |
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| Burstall Pass in Kananiskis (15K roundtrip). Relatively easy hike but bang for your buck views. Only a little uphill to get to the pass itself. Crossed into Banff NP for a few K before stopping for lunch and heading back. Definately out of a Sound of Music environment, awesome alpine meadows, a crazy wetland, and great mountain views. Mt. Assinaboine looked cool in the distance at the top of the pass. Luckily beat the crowd up and down. Beers afterwards at Kananiskis Village. Life is tough. Half the time logged.
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| Was reading the latest Trailrunner Mag. Apparently this is actually a recommened run under their top trail towns list (Canmore). Was totally thinking that while hiking. |
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| C • yep 12 |
Saturday Sep 1 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Axiom 2 (Green) |
| B5 Loop. Easy run. Some hiking tomorrow. |