Monday Jul 7 |
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| slept:7.75 (rest day) |
| Unplanned day off - decided to eat breakfast, since it was free at the hotel, so I couldn't run before we checked out. We spent a few hours at the Ontario Science Center, then the trip home took longer than planned - nasty traffic from Toronto to Hamilton, even though we were well ahead of rush hour. Only 30 minutes at the Rainbow Bridge (after I collected my windbreaker from the hotel in Niagara Falls), but it got late enough that I decided we had to extend our vacation by stopping at Pontillo's in Batavia for pizza and wings, ending any hope of running, since I am not as tough as Chelsea. |
Sunday Jul 6 |
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| slept:6.0 (rest day) |
| Planned rest day - spent the day at Canada's Wonderland, which was quite fun and exhausting. |
Saturday Jul 5 |
| Running 1:11:58 [2] 9.0 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| Ran along Lake Ontario from Ontario Place west a little past where the trail ended, trying to time my turnaround to catch Chelsea - after running nearly 2 miles with her, I went ahead. I noticed measured kms on the path and went 4:44 near the turnaround, then 4:34, 4:39 and 4:36 on the way back (about 7:25 pace). I spotted Chelsea about a minute ahead with under a mile to go, and caught her just after she started walking in the parking lot.
I needed about 2.2 more miles, so I went out and back the other way.
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Friday Jul 4 |
| Running 35:42 [1] 3.7 mi (9:39 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 |
| Ran real easy with Chelsea, since we had to run before lunch, according to the vacation nazis.
Did a loop up Lundy's Lane, left, then back mostly side streets. |
Thursday Jul 3 |
| Running 52:19 [3] 6.96 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| slept:5.75 |
| GTA run - nice turnout again: 11, including Michelle, in the main group plus 4 in the ladies aux. Here's our route. I was OK on the first surge, just dropped back a bit - the timed and measured section was 1.1 miles at 6:29 pace. That wore me out, but I was able to hang on pretty well for the second surge - the next 0.9 miles was at 7:00 pace. Then I started feeling it, plus I had some waves of intestinal discomfort, so the next 1.3 was at 8:00 pace and the last 2.2 were at 7:45, even though I did 5 x 1:15 of quick turnover (never making it much above 200, or 160/min) to try to keep myself going, since I was on my own at this point.
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| Golfing 18:00 [1] | |
| spiked:3/18c |
| Took Scott out to PCC after the run - he missed it so Michelle could go. The tight hamstrings affected my game early and the heavy rain affected my game late, so I shot a lame 92, to lose by 10 strokes. |
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| Nate made his European orienteering debut in Sweden today, at the JWOC spectator race. It was baptism by fire, as his mean old dad made him run H21. He actually had a pretty decent race, other than the nearly 15 minute error on the 4th control. He actually won the final split!
The results are here. Winsplits are here.
Tomorrow he gets to run H16, so we'll see how he stacks up against the young European studs. Andrew held his own against them today, placing 11th out of 24. There are 56 entered in H16 tomorrow, a 3.37K Middle race.
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| Running 30:23 [2] 3.38 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
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| Went out for another run just before 11pm, so that Chelsea could get her run done. We ran from our hotel in Niagara Falls (ON) and paused a couple of times to check out the falls at night, with all the lights. I'm not sure when I last saw the nighttime version.
It was nice to be able to enjoy the mist. The last 2-3 times I ran here were during Zach's hockey tournaments, and it was cold! |
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