Training Log Archive: Bash

For the people who don't know Coco Love Alcorn from my Ontario playlist, she lives in Owen Sound. I first heard "Intellectual Boys" when she performed at the first Bruce Peninsula Multisport Challenge post-race dinner with JayXC (male champion), Ang (female champion), their friend Vincent and 'Bent. This is a very old, low-tech video and I dedicate it to my fellow nerds and the people who love them.

This was my first run in 8 weeks. I've been skiing a lot so I don't feel unfit but it definitely uses different body parts! I've been hoping that my right heel pain might magically vanish if I took a break. I kept it short today and we'll see how it goes. The heel is sore but not that much worse than my usual day-to-day soreness. At least that's been "usual" since just before the pandemic - bad timing.

Now that the snow is mostly gone in Caledon and it's too early for mountain biking, it's time to do more challenges in the CMTR Spring Scavenger Hunt. I did the Listen Local Musical Interlude badge, making a playlist of artists who live in or were born in Ontario: Bryan Adams, Barenaked Ladies, Tragically Hip, Les Stroud, Gordon Lightfoot, Coco Love Alcorn, Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and the Cowboy Junkies. Yes, I am that old!

Based on the small amount of snow in our yard, I'd imagined that I could run along Finnerty Sideroad to the north entrance to Palgrave Forest and return home on trails. Ha! Not a chance. I bushwhacked up a hill to a trail, hoping it would be OK but it was rock-hard glare ice - a job for Kahtoola Microspikes, not Spikecross. So I bushwhacked back down and made it a gravel road run.