Training Log Archive: Bash

Around Palgrave West on a warm, humid day. It's dry and crispy out there; I hope we get the rainstorm in tonight's forecast. On the bright side, ticks prefer wet weather and we haven't seen any of them for a long time.

I tried thicker socks in my new Speedcross 5 shoes, which are wider and better padded with a larger toe box than earlier Speedcross. I think I'll love them eventually but I haven't got them figured out well enough to risk using them in the Alps. I'll stick with my older Speedcross even though the wider toe box of the new model could prevent blisters.

Even though I can't be at Wilderness Traverse this year, I'm still the assistant RD, and there is a ton of work to do to prepare this year's HQ staff to manage the race. We've got some very talented people on the operations side but over the past week, we lost the two social media people who were going to be at HQ. (They're not totally gone but they'll be working remotely.) If anyone would like a front seat for the action this weekend as a race reporter on social media, please get in touch!

'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.