Training Log Archive: Bash

'Bent and I headed out from my parents' place in Brantford for a quick-paced, windy tour of the Grand River waterfront trail system - mostly crushed gravel bike trails with a bit of dirt and pavement and a few kilometers of quiet road. Really nice - we often have a full vehicle when we come to visit, but this was so much fun that we'll have to find room for the bikes in future. Maybe we'll go further along the trail and drop in on Hammer, Etoile and AdventureGirl!

Our turn-around point was Mohawk Park where they were holding a huge Easter Egg hunt for kids. The hamburgers on the BBQ smelled awesome but I still have one more stubborn pound to lose, so we headed home to "enjoy" some carrot sticks instead. Also a few small torso pieces of the dark chocolate Easter Bunny my Mom and Dad gave me! :-)

Good Friday morning paddle down the Humber River with Goose and Coach LD. Started at their place in Bolton and went about halfway to Kleinburg in fantastic weather. It was soooo nice to be back on the water again! The GPS track for this one is fun to look at if you know the area.



Lunch break with Coach LD's yummy chia muffins.



Skeleton crew.

After a busy couple of days, my stoopid cold came back and my body didn't feel like doing much even though the weather was spectacular. I went for a short run around Palgrave West including a trip up Lookout Hill. Only one face plant after my shoe got snagged by a big stick.

Spent the afternoon looking over the Wilderness Traverse race course with Getawaystix, and NO, I won't be giving any hints. I will spill the beans just enough to say that it will be an awesome way to explore a beautiful area. Very disappointed to miss it!

Glorious day! I did an easy run around the Palgraves with BulletDog to see how my cold is doing. Lungs are fine, throat still a little sore - especially since I had to yell "Mocha!" every couple of minutes since she got distracted by all the spring smells. Trails are sooo muddy right now! Decided it was time to take my colourful new SLAB-2s into some goop. They were great.

I'm having too much geeky fun with my Forerunner these days. Here's the Palgrave East portion of my run. (To make it larger, click on it then click on the little magnifying glass in the upper right. Click and drag to move around map.)

Near Futile Quest for Tiny Cell Phone (Needle) in Big Woods (Haystack).

'Bent lost his toque and cell phone while doing some orienteering practice yesterday. The phone was turned off so we couldn't call the number and listen for the forest to start ringing. He found the toque near control #2 before work today, then e-mailed a map with the rest of his route drawn on and an arrow pointing to a suspicious area where he'd bushwhacked through thicker brush.

I'd planned to stick to the Great Indoors on this grey day to recover from my cold, but because I am a devoted wife - the kind of wife who is willing to put her husband's carelessness with "zippered" pockets ahead of her own health - the kind of wife who is satisfied with nothing more than a fire in the hearth, a quiet evening with my family and, oh, say, a Salomon XT Wings softshell jacket size Medium in Atol Blue - well, of course, I headed out into the chilly, wet woods to help my husband.

After scouting the forest floor for several kilometers and seeing nothing but animal poop, mud and dead leaves, I discovered 'Bent's phone lying open (?) by a rotten log in the midst of some thick conifers. I'd really thought it was a lost cause so this was a happy surprise. Looks like it will recover from its night out in the rain.

Thanks also to Crash and Skyerocket for searching along the trails in Palgrave West!