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Friday Oct 30, 2015 #
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slept:8.5 (sick)
Spent an hour coughing in the middle of the night. Ugh.
Thursday Oct 29, 2015 #
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slept:8.0 (sick)
Not looking good for Saturday's race. :((
1 PM
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Not everyone is on Facebook so here's a little Hallowe'en atmosphere!
Here's my younger brother Dave and me playing with knives. Looks like I'm about 8 years old.
Dee, Mrs. Gally, me and Virginia at last weekend's Virginia vs. Bruce celebration party. She's a Super Woman and we are her loyal sidekicks!
Here's my younger brother Dave and me playing with knives. Looks like I'm about 8 years old.
Dee, Mrs. Gally, me and Virginia at last weekend's Virginia vs. Bruce celebration party. She's a Super Woman and we are her loyal sidekicks!
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015 #
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slept:5.0 (sick)
Relapse. Also, I couldn't sleep. :(
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015 #
7 PM
Strength & Mobility (Boot Camp) 55:00
slept:7.75 (sick)
The combination of cold remedies seems to be helping so I took a chance and attended the first class of Caron's new boot camp.
If there was any doubt that I've lost fitness over the past few months, it can be banished now! I felt so so weak but at least I wasn't alone. Great class, very well attended and free with my C3 membership. Looking forward to more!
If there was any doubt that I've lost fitness over the past few months, it can be banished now! I felt so so weak but at least I wasn't alone. Great class, very well attended and free with my C3 membership. Looking forward to more!
Monday Oct 26, 2015 #
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slept:9.0 (sick)
My immunity is still feeble - sore throat and sniffles again. Only a few days left to recover for a 50K
Sunday Oct 25, 2015 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:56:49 *** 11.15 km (10:28 / km) +410m 8:51 / km
slept:3.5 shoes: Salomon S-Lab Fellcross 2
DontGetLost Peak-2-Peak Adventure Run
I was exhausted after last night's Virginia vs. Bruce celebration in Horseshoe Valley, mostly because of coffee that kept me awake for the drive and a few hours afterward! I briefly considered just staying in bed but I'm glad I went to Ancaster to enjoy such a beautiful day in the woods. Nice to see so many AR and O friends too!
Not surprisingly, my fitness and navigational sharpness have been better at other times but I did OK. I made a major error at double black diamond control #60 when I marched up the wrong spur and went much higher than I needed to. I'd turned off the trail early to save climb but the attackpoint wasn't solid enough so I ended up climbing considerably more. Lesson noted. I made a similar error on a much smaller hill while chatting with Harps' neighbour and demonstrating the proper way to screw up a control.
In my sleepy state, I also forgot about the extra dummy flags at the Vertigo control. As in, totally forgot. I noticed that the flag was in the wrong place but that's OK - at least I'd found it. Then when I got there and realized there was no control to punch... "Oh right!"
Otherwise, it was relatively uneventful other than another ankle twist while bushwhacking - just a 3/10 this time so it won't prevent me from running.
DoubleDown, Gally and I enjoyed a post-race "Dirty Southern Lunch" - a double decker sandwich with chicken, BBQ sauce, arugula, maple syrup and waffles instead of bread. Tasty but I could do without the waffle in this case. Coincidentally, on my drive today, I was listening to a This American Life podcast about a team that invents crazy sandwiches and burgers. Apparently, the key is to have a good story that explains the food item; it's not sufficient for the combination of food items to taste good.
I was 1st old lady and top 15% overall with 540 pts. I probably couldn't have made it past 600 pts but my strategy near the end left something to be desired. Next time!!
I was exhausted after last night's Virginia vs. Bruce celebration in Horseshoe Valley, mostly because of coffee that kept me awake for the drive and a few hours afterward! I briefly considered just staying in bed but I'm glad I went to Ancaster to enjoy such a beautiful day in the woods. Nice to see so many AR and O friends too!
Not surprisingly, my fitness and navigational sharpness have been better at other times but I did OK. I made a major error at double black diamond control #60 when I marched up the wrong spur and went much higher than I needed to. I'd turned off the trail early to save climb but the attackpoint wasn't solid enough so I ended up climbing considerably more. Lesson noted. I made a similar error on a much smaller hill while chatting with Harps' neighbour and demonstrating the proper way to screw up a control.
In my sleepy state, I also forgot about the extra dummy flags at the Vertigo control. As in, totally forgot. I noticed that the flag was in the wrong place but that's OK - at least I'd found it. Then when I got there and realized there was no control to punch... "Oh right!"
Otherwise, it was relatively uneventful other than another ankle twist while bushwhacking - just a 3/10 this time so it won't prevent me from running.
DoubleDown, Gally and I enjoyed a post-race "Dirty Southern Lunch" - a double decker sandwich with chicken, BBQ sauce, arugula, maple syrup and waffles instead of bread. Tasty but I could do without the waffle in this case. Coincidentally, on my drive today, I was listening to a This American Life podcast about a team that invents crazy sandwiches and burgers. Apparently, the key is to have a good story that explains the food item; it's not sufficient for the combination of food items to taste good.
I was 1st old lady and top 15% overall with 540 pts. I probably couldn't have made it past 600 pts but my strategy near the end left something to be desired. Next time!!
Saturday Oct 24, 2015 #
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slept:10.0
No time for my planned workout. I've had the interesting pleasure of spending most of the last three days "with" my Dad. Several organizations are jointly nominating him for induction into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame, which is very touching.
It turned out to be easier for our family to fill out most of the sections of the nomination form as a first draft for the nominators. Some stuff was easy, like "Education". Some checking of details was challenging, given that most of Dad's major contributions to agriculture happened before the Internet.
Amazingly, we stumbled onto information that we hadn't expected to find by Googling - an industry journal article about Dad from 1971, some details on North America-wide conferences he helped to organize in 1972 and 1985, lists of past presidents that included him, and newspaper articles that mentioned his name. There weren't any real surprises but there were things that we'd forgotten. Now that we've passed our work back to the nominators and the sense of urgency is gone, I look forward to doing more Googling to see what else I can find.
As has often happened during this journey of the past ten months, I've thought of so many things that I'd like to discuss with Dad. But since that's impossible, I will at least enjoy finding his stories, nuggets of information and photos.
It turned out to be easier for our family to fill out most of the sections of the nomination form as a first draft for the nominators. Some stuff was easy, like "Education". Some checking of details was challenging, given that most of Dad's major contributions to agriculture happened before the Internet.
Amazingly, we stumbled onto information that we hadn't expected to find by Googling - an industry journal article about Dad from 1971, some details on North America-wide conferences he helped to organize in 1972 and 1985, lists of past presidents that included him, and newspaper articles that mentioned his name. There weren't any real surprises but there were things that we'd forgotten. Now that we've passed our work back to the nominators and the sense of urgency is gone, I look forward to doing more Googling to see what else I can find.
As has often happened during this journey of the past ten months, I've thought of so many things that I'd like to discuss with Dad. But since that's impossible, I will at least enjoy finding his stories, nuggets of information and photos.