Training Log Archive: Bash

A combination of snow and ice shovelling after finding water in our basement, dragging an old couch a few hundred meters across the snow for garbage day, plus some foothab.

With freezing rain, rain and warm temperatures in tonight's forecast, this could be the last day of true winter skiing for the season. Timato, Mrs. Tiny and Teeny Tiny are visiting for the weekend to kick off March Break, and we headed over to Highlands Nordic to enjoy the amazing ski conditions. It was awesome.

As we were getting ready to go skiing, Teeny sighed and said, "I feel like I'm the only one who's trying to look good around here." She was right.



This track was the first couple of loops with Mrs. and Teeny. Elapsed time was about 55 minutes. Teeny Tiny showed off the skills she's been learning in her lessons.

Then I went for a loop on my own. It warmed up and I had great glide with very little grip, which meant extra upper body exercise. It was spectacular.

I switched to waxless skis for a final short loop. Halfway around, I met 'Bent, Timato and Teeny Tiny so I skied back with them and took a few photos.

Skied around Scenic Caves on a bluebird day. Goose, Coach LD and 'Bent were skate skiing so we crossed paths occasionally. At this time of year, it's so nice to have excellent winter conditions. It would have been great to have them in January too but we'll take what we can get! Thanks to Coach LD for making us a yummy dinner afterward. :)

Forgot my GPS due to the excitement of slicing the palm of my hand open in a household accident shortly before we went skiing. Looks like I'm going to live.

Target every muscle group!

Major snow shovelling and ice-breaking-upping in advance of the site meeting in our back yard.

This was a good run focusing on shorter strides but it didn't cancel out the chocolate buttertart I ate earlier to prepare myself for the latest site meeting with the Town building inspectors and the contractor team. So far this has been going on for 18 months. I haven't counted the buttertarts. It seemed like progress was made today but I don't want to get my hopes up too high. Ka-CHING! :(

Foothab + 1-legged deadlifts - all I could squeeze in after a day with Mom and an evening in an Orienteering Ontario conference call.

Ski around Palgrave West in terrific conditions. For about half the distance, I was breaking trail through powder that sometimes poured over the sides of my boots. Note to self: Wear taller socks!

I saw snow squalls nearby but they missed me, unfortunately.

My body is tired and happy after an active weekend so I just did a few strength exercises today, including a short test of my new TRX kit.

I saw Dr. Thumbs-of-Death this morning and told him about the invisible-lacrosse-ball-hitting-my-hip-flexors-during-lunge moment last week. I had hoped he would start nodding as I told my story, then explain what happened. In this imagined conversation, he would tell me it was completely harmless, then we'd laugh about how worried I'd been. But he was mystified too. This explains why Dr. Google didn't have much to say about it.

Dr. ToD thinks it was probably hip flexors snapping over bone causing a popping feeling, which was my most recent theory. He worked on my tight hip and found one very sore point on the sartorius tendon near its attachment point to the pelvis. But other than that minor strain, things seem normal with that hip so whatever happened, it seems to be fine now. Phew!!