Sunday Jul 27 |
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| I've been wondering who would be in a yellow jersey today - and to my surprise, it turned out to be Slowrunner.
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| Cycling (Single Track) 1:03:00  11 km (5:44 / km) | |
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| Recovery ride around Palgrave with 'Bent. The recent trail closures have left us with a nice single track bike trail - not super-long, but good to have close to home. The biggest impact is going to be on the XC skiing - the reason we bought our house here. Rats.
At one point, I heard a light thump behind me and looked back to see 'Bent's bike lying on its side on the trail. Squinting a little harder, I could see a disembodied leg with the bike shoe still clipped into the pedal, but the rest of 'Bent was nowhere to be seen in the tall weeds, and he wasn't moving. It turned out that he'd been surprised by a sudden fall after being clipped by a log, and he landed hard with his wrist bent backward. He didn't start moving immediately because it was so unexpected, and he didn't know how badly he'd hurt himself. I rode back, and fortunately, he scrambled up around the same time. No permanent damage, it seems.
Finished the afternoon with a nice shopping trip to Running Free! |
Saturday Jul 26 |
| Running long (Trail) 2:30:00 [3] 19 km (7:54 / km) | |
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| In case anyone has been wondering, my current training program is: nothing, nothing, nothing, great big long workout, nothing, nothing, bit o' yoga, nothing, nothing, great big long thing, etc. I'm not sure that it's working.
Today was the day for a great big long thing, and 'Bent and I were lucky to hook up with a fun group - Slowrunner, Rocky, Hingo, Goose and Vents - to run on a beautiful section of Bruce Trail west of Terra Cotta. Slowrunner and Rocky are just a few weeks away from the Trans Rockies Challenge in Colorado, and boy do they seem ready as they tear up those hills!
There was some tricky footing on slippery rocks, especially after the cloudburst that cooled us down nicely. Although Slowrunner had described the run as "not hilly", well frankly, she lied. That's OK though, because we got her back when 'Bent, Hingo and I headed off for iced lattes at The Shed Coffee Bar after the first 19 km of the run. She and Rocky had another 14 km loop to do, and I thought sympathetically of them out in the rain as I munched on my chocolate pecan tart on the comfy couch at the coffee bar. :-) |
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Thursday Jul 24 |
| Yoga 23:00 [1] | |
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| Rodney Yee's yoga for flexibility. On one hand, I was proud of myself for squeezing in some yoga when I only had 45 minutes left before going to a 3-hr meeting. On the other hand, I was mad at myself for letting my yoga lapse this summer, as I can feel that things are a *lot* tighter all over my body. There is still a niggling lower back thing that I may need to take to Leanimal. |
Monday Jul 21 |
| Cycling (Mostly Trails) 2:20:00  | |
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| I met up with Coach LD and VO2Max (home for a brief visit from Whistler) for a chatty ride at Albion Hills.
In spite of his nickname, he only had his VO2Max tested recently, and it was over 80 - wow! Coach LD and I kept offering to slow down in case we were tiring him out, but he managed to keep on pushing valiantly. It sounds like Whistler might be the most fun place on earth if your job is to train for outdoor sports with your friends. Glad VO2Max's coaching change is going well so far.
Our red Specialized Epic bikes looked great together!
On the way home, I stopped in to visit 2-time XTerra winner Crash and her very friendly menagerie.
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