Training Log Archive: Bash

'Bent joined me for a birthday run around the Hockley Provincial Park Loop - the extra hilly version. It was a beautiful day in the woods - not too hot or humid. It's clear that I'm getting old because I still feel pain in some muscles that I pulled a while ago. It's two weeks until race day so I don't have time for my muscles to mess around! Other than that, I felt OK running but I certainly didn't set any records.

Then we had a lovely dinner at the Bluebird Cafe in Orangeville with our old friends Jan and Neil. It's my first birthday without my parents, which was tough, so it was nice to have a "family" meal. You know it's a nice group when everyone fights so hard for the cheque that they actually break a full water glass!

Wonderful life celebration for Pops (Goose's Dad) today.

Yahooo!!! After 4.5 months of not being able to drive with a front seat passenger, my Subaru Outback has a new type of air bag that apparently won't spray shrapnel into the passenger compartment if there is a collision.

'Bent and I met Mrs. Gally and Dee at Georgian Peaks for some ski hill repeats. Each of us was on a different schedule today but the ladies went up and down together a couple of times. Early on my 2nd repeat, I started to feel super fatigued and a little lightheaded. I toughed it out for a while since I was aiming for 1,000 m of vertical but eventually I decided that would probably do more harm than good.

Not sure what was wrong. Toward the end of yesterday's long run, I was congratulating myself on how good I felt. My legs haven't felt 100% recovered this week after carrying very heavy loads on our canoe trip so maybe the last two days of running piled on more load than I could handle. Or maybe I was dehydrated or overheated. Or maybe it's the two drinks I had yesterday - not much but more than I usually have. Or the poor sleep before yesterday's early long run. Hmm. It took hours until I felt sort of normal.

(Elapsed time was considerably more!) 'Bent and I went for an easy paddle around Collingwood Harbour to check out the action at the Harbour Festival, aka Sidelaunch Days. The highlight was the kite festival, which we also saw from our kayaks last year.







These things are huge!





Mrs. Gally was hosting Jerrick's fishing birthday party there, and Dee and kids were in attendance. Mrs. Gally sure knows how to throw an impressive party! :)

Early run starting with the Tarnos at Pretty River. I ran the first hour with Jackie, who pushed me by running a lot of uphill to the high point of the Bruce Trail. I would normally wimp out and start hiking briskly a lot sooner than she did.

Jackie headed home so I had an hour on my own before 'Bent and Tarno were done. I went back up to the Bruce Trail high point and came back down to the road.

Then 'Bent joined me for 2.5 hours to stretch it into a long run. There was plenty of climb and technical running so we didn't cover a big distance but it was hard work. I had two hard falls, one of which made the meniscus in my right knee click - ugh. I was able to keep running without pain though. A few hours post-run, my right Achilles - the healthy one, - was pretty sore. Not sure what that's about. Fingers crossed that I'll wake up pain-free tomorrow. Race day is less than 3 weeks away.