Training Log Archive: Yukon KingIn the 31 days ending Mar 31, 2007:
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Saturday Mar 31, 2007 #
walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km)
first day on Galiano - marched about on the Bluffs over Active pass, where the ferries go thru - cold air that stayed w/ us over our whole vacation made its first impression. later in the (still sometimes chilly) sunshine G & I wandered around Driftwood Village & the woodlot above it - saw these beautiful wild lily-things, maybe a dog's tooth violet - while D took photos.
Friday Mar 30, 2007 #
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slept:8.5 weight:57.8kg
don't like this slumpiness in my weight. Eat more cheese more regularly. Countdown to vacation - packing food, packing dog, packing self. Also transfusion, so trip downtown this afternoon, sign up for HP book 20% off, drop off stuff for Alfie & see how knee is. Much walking today followed by takeout yay!
walking 1:10:00 [1] 3.6 km (19:27 / km)
1.2 sunshiney loop, out to Poo Hill w/ daffodils & forsythia, cut between daycares & school & around base of Taylor Park to annihilate one nasty spider-monkey nest w/ much schnorting & vigorous nose-tunnelling. (First walk aborted after a hurka-hurka in the elevator - did not want to jiggle Miss Explodey too much)
Off to Alfie's 0.4km/0.6km & then downtown (1.0km/0.4km) Cherry blossoms are out at Burrard station. On the way home I saw a teenager wearing camo-pattern tights trimmed w/ turqouise lace, bright orange runners, a teeny jean skirt in rags, & a shorty parka w/ a truly amazing huge red plaid pattern. I believe the correct term is Yowza...
off to the islands, off the net, off the continent, outa touch yeah...PS ate a maple donut at Tim Hortons to gain weight. yum.
Off to Alfie's 0.4km/0.6km & then downtown (1.0km/0.4km) Cherry blossoms are out at Burrard station. On the way home I saw a teenager wearing camo-pattern tights trimmed w/ turqouise lace, bright orange runners, a teeny jean skirt in rags, & a shorty parka w/ a truly amazing huge red plaid pattern. I believe the correct term is Yowza...
off to the islands, off the net, off the continent, outa touch yeah...PS ate a maple donut at Tim Hortons to gain weight. yum.
Thursday Mar 29, 2007 #
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slept:7.5 weight:58.2kg
yow! my back hurts like crazy! what's up w/ that!? but my joints arent buggin' me... I guess if not one thing then another, oh well, time for coffee & a bit of natural history - Hey, I decided to sign up for the last Potter book - downtown they'll give you 20% off. So I'm gonna re-read the first one on Galiano, only 4 months to go heheheh...
Yellow Dog Yoga 20:00 [1]
twenty minutes of frail & brittle yoga, very weird feeling...mostly floor, trying to see if back would be happier. (it is happier this afternoon.)
walking 20:00 [1]
late morning walk in the spring sun, G is boggled by unprecedented heat of 11 degrees Celsius - being born in late October, she only knows winter. Puzzled by cherry blossoms on the lawn. We changed direction about every 100 meters, stayed close to home but covered ground surprisingly. A fridge-cleansing stirfry, broiled salmon w/ sherry-mushroom-butter sauce (I invented it this afternoon to further cleanse the fridge, & I want to bathe in it, yum!) And some oatmeal cookies that have what I fear is an irreproducibly delicious aroma.
walking 25:00 [1] 1.2 km (20:50 / km)
over to train station under a weather-is-changin' kinda sky - then under the overpass which was creepy & shan't be repeated. Met Happy three times.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:58.6kg
downtown today for celebratory lunch with (ex-) work buddy - soon both Robin & I will have left the Man behind, & will be carousing out in Burnaby. We will be able to have 8-hour lunches...on the other hand, I do hope the Man remembers to issue me a check sometime for the work I did do.
walking 1:05:00 [1] 3.6 km (18:03 / km)
puppy loop AM (1.1 km) up to store & then down the creek on the footpaths; PM loop (1.0 km) up to the store via the bikepath/construction site, encounter w/ Kal the Masteful (G pees her pants, which placates Kal), followed by play session w/ Gizmo, Tisha, & Gypsy's Local Fan Club - G now exhausted by unusual heat & so much fun. And the unusual efforts of self-control - she doesn't get to meet dogs unless she can sit & be calm about it.
Lunch downtown was a ball, stalked husband at safety conference but just missed him. (0.4km, 0.7km, 0.4 km). Definitely feeling better today, hip & feet grumpy but OK given distance...
Lunch downtown was a ball, stalked husband at safety conference but just missed him. (0.4km, 0.7km, 0.4 km). Definitely feeling better today, hip & feet grumpy but OK given distance...
Tuesday Mar 27, 2007 #
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slept:8.5 weight:59.2kg
starting to feel stronger, almost normal; have I been carrying a buggie without noticing it the last few days - had that nasty night a few days ago... Anyhooo, gonna start cookin' up a storm! We are off to Galiano this weekend for a vacation at Driftwood Village (or sumsuch) so gonna make cookies & waybread for that, ordered posh breads & local artisanal cheeses from SPUD, and am gonna hussle thru homemade pasta for tomorrow as well as today's tempeh & noodles experiment. I love food and the sun is shining!
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
was that a great walk or what!? out for about 1.25 hr, did dog soccer at the rink, around the base of Taylor park in the sun looking for spider monkey nests, and THEN wrestled w/ Sophie the bedlington terrier for 15 minutes at the end !! G is puffing on the kitchen floor trying to cool off, hahaha! Teatime for me. Started a book on trains, its great! Oh yeah, and ice on assorted body parts, mmmmm, feet are starting to dig it.
walking 20:00 [1] 1.1 km (18:11 / km)
up to the store & under the train tracks, checked the creek for skunk cabbage, feral cherries in the woods look great in the sunshine. Puppy class tonight. Printed a shot from google-earth of the neighborhood to get another look at distances (too lazy to carry GPS every time so I guestimate from certain legs I have measured) - looks like I usually slightly underestimate.
Monday Mar 26, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:59.2kg
The ice is on the hip... the sun is shining in the sky! haven't seen the swallows yet.
walking 22:00 [1] 1.2 km (18:20 / km)
springtime gambolling for an hour with puppy - down the top of Stairmaster, played w/ Whistler, & then into the woods - turns out I'd just rather be outside looking at salmonberry blossoms & lil birdies in the bush, even tho I love our beautiful apt... hip aches, oh well, gotta live now to some extent. Some days I'd cheerfully trade the rest of my life for this one hour, some days I'm a bit more sensible and try to figure out how to amortize the pain a bit. Practiced sitting in the sun for 20 minutes as at an O-meet. Gypsy seems to like it just fine. Now its time for some tea & an icepak.
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
over to train station to see if we could meet D getting off the train from downtown, but he's having too much fun talking avionics or sumthin. Met some dogs, tried to eat alotta garbage, very nonchalant re hyper-urban environment, excellent! Malaysian curry for dinner tofu-cashew-coconut milk connection, w/ broc N carrots, AND the last of Alfie's carmel-apple pie! Almost O-food...hip OK, I think we are better than yesterday.
Sunday Mar 25, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:59.2kg
woke up very slow, but was happy to see sunshine & the swallows are back!! wernt for dimsum, then Granville Island, & then R hip started hurting so bad! Yow. scared me a bit. Tylenol, rest, & ice all afternoon.
Saturday Mar 24, 2007 #
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slept:7.5 weight:58.6kg
last AM pee-walk. Yay!!!! Off to drink port (?!) and eat cheese downtown. Quickie walk for O-dog, 20 minutes no significant distance in continued pouring rain. Went out for bright-colored slushy/girl & martini-drinks in the evening. Guest-drinker did not drink hardly at all - I'm sure his parents will be encouraged...
Friday Mar 23, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:58.2kg
4AM Pee-Walk felt horrid, nausea & "other symptoms" - was the chinese takeout bad?! staggered out of bed late this morning, will ice & elevate feet & do not-too-big walks. Kellington kids arrive this evening, to do a weekend of drinking w/ their parents' Canadian friends, weird huh? but it'll be fun, colorful girly martinis downtown, dunno what else. Hopefully the 19 yr old will take home the message that drinking is silly & expensive, & thereby bypass that awkward "disturbing the peace" drinking phase.
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
despite assertions she is not an Aqua-Dog, G marched around the block for a km of wading thru the Everglades-style river-lake that Burnaby has become. Creek is really up, almost swamping bright yellow skunk cabbages. Feral cherries blooming like mist in the forest, gonna be gorgeous in the sun! feet good. time for tea and Jurgen Goethe in front of the fire....
Thursday Mar 22, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:58kg
nothing to do today! chinese takeout for visit to Alfie tonight. raining hard, so maybe we will do some training in the bikeroom instead of a full outdoors walk. Am wondering about new laundry product - in trying to be less heavy on planet, I bought a "green" product w/ no phosphates blablabla, but now I do more research I think I may be washing our clothes in nicely alkaline water. Perhaps we stink. Perhaps the Kellington kids will tell us this weekend.
walking 10:00 [1] 0.4 km (25:00 / km)
pouring, dumping, flooding rain, I never bin so wet in ma life !! Gypsy neither. She did a Perfect Sit for introducing to another dog, and we met her friend Kelly. Hey! we tested Catching Features last night, I wanna learn to play!
walking 10:00 [1] 0.6 km (16:40 / km)
more amazing rain, quicker loop up to store & back thru woods. Nice to just have a rest day today, feet are happy about this.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 #
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rhr:58 slept:7.5 weight:58kg
hmmm, just came to me cassia is a cousin of cinnamon not of vanilla - but the faintly vanilla-scented hoisin beef was a hit yesterday anyways! In other news, D was NOT pissed I cut all his maps out of their plastic cases & stuck them in a neat reference binder, he liked it !! Plus I explained we got big ziplocs if he needs to run them around again.
Icing my feet this morning, surprisingly traumatic, usually my body parts love ice paks...feet will figure it out soon I bet. see how first walk goes. Stars from 3am pee-walk gone, clouds came back in...
Risotto for dinner, spicey sausage, onion-tomato-red wine connection... maybe some non-sequitor gai-lan w/ oyster sauce just to finish the bag off...
got the O-log out to start recording our 2007 adventures, so fun!!!
Icing my feet this morning, surprisingly traumatic, usually my body parts love ice paks...feet will figure it out soon I bet. see how first walk goes. Stars from 3am pee-walk gone, clouds came back in...
Risotto for dinner, spicey sausage, onion-tomato-red wine connection... maybe some non-sequitor gai-lan w/ oyster sauce just to finish the bag off...
got the O-log out to start recording our 2007 adventures, so fun!!!
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
convoluted puppy loops in moderate rain (we are soaked!) 40 min. down the creek-walk (did perfect sit-stay for a runner, yah!) & round about the parkway & Stairmaster, thru woods, etc. Beautiful pink camellia. Did some heel plus good arm signals for focus-come-sit.
YDY 23:00 [1]
split yoga off from (remedial) strength & range of motion as I've added too much of the latter to the yoga which is pretty much getting lost - so will do & report separately. Plus I see from log I tend to do both for too long, & then that day I get tired. This was the strength/range stuff. mostly floor.
Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 #
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slept:7.0 weight:58.4kg
Hoisin beef w/ onions & broccoli for dinner on organic brown rice, a fruit salad & lil tings beside. A crockpot adaptation (which I hope goes well) so I can lollygag around & visit my dad-in-law & eat apple pie with him. Second puppy class tonight.
Made an orienteering present for husband - hope he likes it !!
Made an orienteering present for husband - hope he likes it !!
walking 55:00 [1] 2.8 km (19:39 / km)
1.2km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km = 2.8km; excellent puppy loop down the Stairmaster & then up in a meandering way past Stoneledge & the parkway, had magnificent play session w/ micro-dog Cassie. Then galloped off in wind & sunshine for tea w/ Alf & a nice apple pie, but Ooooooh, my feet hurt even w/ a 650 mg tylenol in there, will elevate and ice, yowie! Second walk will be minimalist w/ sitting in sun by gate.
Monday Mar 19, 2007 #
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slept:8.5 weight:58.6kg
donuts, cheesecakes, & big breakfasts on weekend have effortlessly pulled me up from 57kg zone, yay!
Yellow Dog Yoga 40:00 [1]
half an hour of floor things; L-reaching supine twist is getting better. Worked a bit on L hand as numbness is (thinking about) coming back into outermost fingers. Then 10 minutes of standing yoga - warrior, tree...
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
rather brisk (50 minutes out total) walk on tortuous route w/ a bit of everything from dog-encounters to bush to sedate sidewalks. A bit of rain, lotsa violets in one part of the woods. L foot hurting rather alot - will elevate a bit in the afternoon & evening. Started Living Planet - vivid description of the Kali Gandhaki right at the beginning - makes me wanna go there!! Chili & quinoa, a walnut/bleu cheese salad W tomatoes...maybe a ficelle loaf and some more bleu mixed into cream cheese to dollop onto that. Fruit salad - odd lil oranges at Choices, kiwi, mango. But time for tea first!
walking 15:00 [1] 0.7 km (21:26 / km)
second puppy loop of the day over by the daycares, wow parents have it TOUGH! I was thinking that I was getting a flare (hips, elbows) but then realized I was jumping my meds forward half a day & this was just the med trough. Ow.
Sunday Mar 18, 2007 #
walking 35:00 [1] 1.8 km (19:27 / km)
One km on the UVic campus as D orienteered about, getting the O-dog used to the concept of Many Rabbits. She wanted to be friends with all of them. Plus their poo seemed to be scrumptious, but I managed to keep her from eating more than about 10 pellets, she is like greased lightning when it comes to picking up nasty stuff. (Note: no apparent ill effects from her odd diet, at least not during the critical ferry ride) Fun to watch the kids gallop around on the baby course.
The other bit was Gypsy's first salt-water beach experience in watery sunshine on the way back up to the ferry terminal - sand, waves. & undrinkable salty water.
Feet seem to be fine, yay!
The other bit was Gypsy's first salt-water beach experience in watery sunshine on the way back up to the ferry terminal - sand, waves. & undrinkable salty water.
Feet seem to be fine, yay!
Saturday Mar 17, 2007 #
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rhr:56 slept:8.0 weight:57.4kg
off to Victoria to orientate at UVic on Sunday! O-dog meets my parents and goes for her first big-ferry ride. I think I am gonna start eating more cheese or sumthin cuz this is enuf weight loss. BMI yesterday was just under 20 & that is a satisfactory goal. Cheese ! mmmmm...
walking 40:00 [1]
two km with pup in pouring rain for first two walks & then last walk after dark w/ parents in Victoria. Great!
Friday Mar 16, 2007 #
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slept:7.5 weight:57.6kg
have decided to devote half a cup of coffee each morning (or somesuch) to reading random AP logs to get more familiar w/ different types of crazy athletes. Almost done Life on Earth (turns out I need narrative as well as information so have mixed in a Sayers novel as well) & may do Attenborough's second natural history book after. Then HP is coming out in July, I'll have to re-read the series starting...sometime...
Maybe vietnamese noodles w/ gailan tonite? or takeout? Meg's persian chickpea stew ? Going to cycle the earthquake pack soon too, fresh meds, fresh cans, fresh water...
Maybe vietnamese noodles w/ gailan tonite? or takeout? Meg's persian chickpea stew ? Going to cycle the earthquake pack soon too, fresh meds, fresh cans, fresh water...
walking 1:05:00 [1] 3.3 km (19:42 / km)
two puppy loops approx. 1km each, one urban around the block, & second to offset squishing down the soggy forest path right along the Creek & then briskly back up the tarmac path. Also did a session of Narcotics Search Dog (toilet paper cylinders set up all over the livingroom with "narcotics" hidden in a few of them - all I can say is she is slow but scores 100%, those drug smugglers better watch out...
And banking downtown, 1.3 km total. Feet Ok at end of day, hurting but not bad, will elevate a bit.
first wave of cherry trees, star magnolias, & red maple keys are showing up AOWN.
And banking downtown, 1.3 km total. Feet Ok at end of day, hurting but not bad, will elevate a bit.
first wave of cherry trees, star magnolias, & red maple keys are showing up AOWN.
Thursday Mar 15, 2007 #
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weight:58kg
hydration exercise yesterday satisfactory so will continue that. re feet, let's do smaller puppy loops for a day or so til the feet stop hurting so much, at least today. And elevate a few times a day. Maybe tomorrow go to downtown bank cuz it is much closer to train station. Ok, elevate, elevate!
walking 12:00 [1] 0.6 km (20:00 / km)
half hour walk W/ Gypsy, feet were fine. Elevated feet for 15 minutes. around 2pm feet twinging just a bit just from tramping around kitchen/laundry etc, so a setdown w/ tea & a bit more elevation before second walk. Setting up dog-pack for her first over-night trip this weekend to UVic orienteering, also refreshing the back-of-the-jeep TP-&-isopropanol-kit for more "back-country" destinations....
walking 15:00 [1] 0.8 km (18:45 / km)
yikes! my doggy is an Explodey Dog ! (well, she was, and now she is a Tired But Empty Dog) My fleece & my jeans are in the wash, & I scrubbed down the elevator. This means that we don't need to do lotsa walking now since her energy is very low. So my feet are gonna recover nicely for the rest of the day. Another round of elevation...
7pm stroll after a cautious meal - seems to be sticking... feet achey a little by end.
final walk up & down the block at 9pm -she is perky again! My feet hurt some but not bad, amybe about like usual... one more elevation tonight & then take it a bit easy tomorrow as well. Lower back hurts-tension?
7pm stroll after a cautious meal - seems to be sticking... feet achey a little by end.
final walk up & down the block at 9pm -she is perky again! My feet hurt some but not bad, amybe about like usual... one more elevation tonight & then take it a bit easy tomorrow as well. Lower back hurts-tension?
Wednesday Mar 14, 2007 #
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slept:6.5 weight:58kg
Very tired today, may be dehydrated. Will work on it, take it easy today, sit outside in gorgeous sunshine & watch for squirrels w/ O-dog. Thai-style tofu.
walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km)
two puppy loops in the sunshine, cherry blossoms & all kinda lil green tings in the woods. So nice! Feet hurt so bad toward end of day, think this thru lil missy, what is this log for? Get a plan...
Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 #
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weight:59kg
it's snowing! off to make pasta w/ the ladies today, will bring some home to serve w/ a candied-salmon & scallion cream sauce and a big ol' stirfry of cauliflower, broccoli, carrot & chard.
walking 55:00 [1] 2.8 km (19:39 / km)
1.2/0.4/0.4/0.4/0.4 = 2.8km total of long puppy loop (really nice at the time - down the creek & up the Stairmaster) & commute over to pasta-making - too much, feet & legs just HURT. Must take it easy tomorrow.
Yellow Dog Yoga 45:00 [1]
did 25 minutes floor stuff & then 10 minutes of the more overtly yoga standing things (warrior, tree, triangle...) inside to a nice tibetan bells thing, very calming. And 10 minutes stealth yoga/strength in the woods while waiting for pup.
Went to first "puppy class" w/O-dog - frankly disappointing in its crass commercialism - a few platitudes like Be Consistent & then some Really Obscure Commands to work on - "focus" and "off"? Huh?! these are bouncey babies who mostly don't even know where the end of their leash is...G dealt by lying down and carefully doing nothing much at all until we gave her a treat periodically. gotta think how to extract goodness from that situation.
Went to first "puppy class" w/O-dog - frankly disappointing in its crass commercialism - a few platitudes like Be Consistent & then some Really Obscure Commands to work on - "focus" and "off"? Huh?! these are bouncey babies who mostly don't even know where the end of their leash is...G dealt by lying down and carefully doing nothing much at all until we gave her a treat periodically. gotta think how to extract goodness from that situation.
Monday Mar 12, 2007 #
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weight:58.8kg
vegan attack on heap-o-vegies - adobo-style stirfry of mushrooms, tofu, & snowpeas. Add on some gai lan, and we're close to under control brassica-wise. And lemon meringue pie from Alfie's last night to finish up...
walking 50:00 [1]
1.2km/0.6km/0.8km, two puppy loops in the sunshine & wind, off to both parks to check out the enclosed street hockey rinks for puppy-off-leash fun. And a quick whisk over to grocery for various necessities...
Sunday Mar 11, 2007 #
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weight:58.4kg
last few days I am on a weight ramp losing 200 grams a day. How fun is that? No O-food today, gonna take chinese takeout over to dad-in-law's whose knee is not-so-good. Super rainy & misty. Time change done, nnngghh...
italianesque vegetable soup reduced veg pile a bit at lunch.
italianesque vegetable soup reduced veg pile a bit at lunch.
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
normal distance puppy loop (YAY), forgot snorkel gear, dang. Again, surprisingly no other dogs out to play with. Our dog is small but Really Hardened Up.
Yellow Dog Yoga 35:00 [1]
fell asleep on couch & felt like cr*p upon waking as usual so tried floor stuff (been doing only stand-up things during this last week's stealth yoga in forest how 'bout that) - first thing that I noticed is everything really hurts! so modified just about everything, did mostly passive-gravity range of motion positions, only a bit of strength. R shoulder, R elbow partly locked, gonna have to work on them. nggghngnnn...anyhooo, off to Alfie's, tralala !!
Saturday Mar 10, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:58.6kg
continuing anti-vegetable campaign - created big pot of chili with extraneous vegetables added. Boy does it taste delicious and it is all bright colors, so pretty. And cleansingly fibrous too. not vegan though...overall O-food, I think.
walking 15:00 [1] 0.75 km (20:00 / km)
slightly longer puppy loop in absolutely pouring rain. Oddly no other doggies out to play with. VERY tired today, what's up with that.
Friday Mar 9, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:58.8kg
walking 40:00 [1] 2.2 km (18:11 / km)
0.7km/0.4km/0.7km/0.4km is 2.2 km total - a slightly longer puppy loop (I think her leg is getting better!!) & scampering around Metrotown to bank, pick up meds, latte, & some marrow bones for puppy & gai lan for us.
Now at home I realize I have a "problem" with vegetables - the two drawers are stuffed and so now is the lowest shelf of the fridge. (1) I must stop buying vegetables & fruits and (2) we must start eating them at maximum speed. Accordingly, huge onion-asparagus-mushroon stirfry, peppers & carrots to crunch, & mango-kiwi-orange fruit salad (along w/ quinoa and baked beans) for dinner. It was so good! and completely O-food in the same vein as cinnamon & apples....
Now at home I realize I have a "problem" with vegetables - the two drawers are stuffed and so now is the lowest shelf of the fridge. (1) I must stop buying vegetables & fruits and (2) we must start eating them at maximum speed. Accordingly, huge onion-asparagus-mushroon stirfry, peppers & carrots to crunch, & mango-kiwi-orange fruit salad (along w/ quinoa and baked beans) for dinner. It was so good! and completely O-food in the same vein as cinnamon & apples....
Thursday Mar 8, 2007 #
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rhr:58 slept:8.0 weight:59.2kg
D's photo class tonight so the girls will party, but only slightly so Gypsy's leg continues to heal...these small walks are purgatory. Heavy rain. Yesterday I found out bro is getting married October, Derek got a promotion, & Robin is taking a year's leave. Yoicks!
walking 20:00 [1] 1.1 km (18:11 / km)
two puppy loops - 0.5km/0.6km. She is losing her baby-teeth & boy is she annoyed. Tore up a room full of cardboard box-toys, keeps going into the bathroom and bringing me rolls of toiletpaper (knows she isnt supposed to tear them up, so she carries them like baby ducklings) but now I gave her a softened rawhide to chew on...kinda like gum. Spent most of the day working out logistics for N Island, W States, & Barebones - dog-friendly accommodations, 500km daily legs, canoeing destinations...
Yellow Dog Yoga 10:00 [1]
forgot to add in the stretches etc I do to keep feet from hurting during the 2+ hrs I am outside (these puppy-healing days) with only about 20 minutes equivalent of walking. Very mellow.
Wednesday Mar 7, 2007 #
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rhr:58 slept:7.0 weight:59kg
rainy today again. Leftover salmon, wild rice mix, carrot and asparagus, & a salad of parched corn, tomatoes & cilantro. Maybe sumthin w/ pumpkin & the leftover ricotta? pretty much O-food.
walking 30:00 [1] 1.6 km (18:45 / km)
0.6km/0.5km/0.5km two puppy loops & a quick trip for bread.
Tuesday Mar 6, 2007 #
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rhr:60 slept:6.5 weight:59.4kg
time to cook for the dad-in-law, Alfie's comin' over w/ an apple pie - so, salmon w/ Mr. Pepin's oriental touch (half a salmon has been gently bathing since yesterday in fridge in soy, garlic, ginger, sugar, scallions, & sesame oil), rice, broccoli N oyster sauce, carrots in sweet butter, bleu cheese & pita crisps, & an asian salad w/ tahini dressing, should be sweet!
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
two teeny puppy loops in the warm spring-like neighborhood, Gypsy was low-energy for the noon walk, slept in front of fire or in her lil bed before and after, but she did eat her lunch. Much perkier for 4:30 walk, now she is destroying a cardboard egg carton with two kibbles inside (cheap toys, heheh). I need to HTFU about this limping thing. Vet visit on Sat, if it doesn't correct on its own.
Yellow Dog Yoga 10:00 [1]
snuck in a few minutes of stretches etc while Gypsy teethed on sticks, bark, & pinecones out in the forest.
Monday Mar 5, 2007 #
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slept:8.0 weight:59.4kg
oooh, that is what a weekend involving pizza, Coke, a visit to an establishment called the "Kansas City Bar-B-Q Shack" and Dairy Queen will do for ya! what fun! (oh yeah, preceded by a whole chocolate bar & a bacon cheeseburger on Friday, what a run)
Had a touch of fever last night but it broke aorund 4AM after the puppy walk, felt much better but will take it easy today...
Had a touch of fever last night but it broke aorund 4AM after the puppy walk, felt much better but will take it easy today...
Yellow Dog Yoga 10:00 [1]
more stealth yoga-stuff in the forest as we stare at the bush where the black squirrel went.
walking 30:00 [1] 2.7 mi (11:07 / mi)
0.7km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km/0.8km, total 2.7 km, two very slow puppy loops (snowdrops, liverworts, mosses), visit to Dr., latte, Esprit sales center...I have successfully duplicated red Thai curry (NOT O-food, too much luscious coconut milk!) and Libby's baked beans (what a triumph! and it qualifies as fibrous O-food as well!)
Sunday Mar 4, 2007 #
Yellow Dog Yoga 15:00 [1]
slept:7.5
did some of the less overt standing stuff, while meandering with puppy for 40 minutes over 0.4km, which works out to an average speed of 2 feet per second, (I think) very fast for... a mouse.
walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km)
0.4km/0.4km/0.7km, groceries, two puppy loops, longer one with D, still trying to minimize exercise and help her get over her limp. As noted, the 0.4 Puppy Classic, took a magnificent 40 minutes with much sniffing and mauling of vegetation. It was relaxing.
Saturday Mar 3, 2007 #
walking 15:00 [1] 0.8 km (18:45 / km)
slept:7.5 weight:58.6kg
gentle meander around the misty neighborhood to protect Gypsy's (improving) bones, after an exciting morning of dimsum and birthday cake (mmmmm). Completed research on Banff area lakes as potential canoeing add-on to the Canmore Barebones in late Aug/early Sept. looks good, at least 5 lakes.
Friday Mar 2, 2007 #
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rhr:58 slept:7.5 weight:58.4kg
Finished LOTR a few days ago, fiddled w/ Silmarillion for a few days, tried Dickens & then Steinbeck, & then settled on some soothing natural history by Attenborough. Off to downtown for transfusion today, so lotsa walking. Pup still a bit tender in L front leg, so her walks will be a bit shorter. Researching possible canoeing vacation after/before North Island O-meet, Quadra Island looks good!
walking 1:05:00 [1]
0.4/0.5/0.4/0.7/0.3/0.4/1.0/0.4....hmmm, OK what is that, 4.1 km, or thereabouts - butter-latte w/ Annie, two short walks w/ the O-dog (second one I carried her back cuz she was so pathetically limping, but now she is fine?! - panosteitis = growing pains?!) & then downtown as mentioned. Pizza & two litres of Coca cola awaited me - what a Friday night!
Yellow Dog Yoga 8:00 [1]
was down on livingroom floor cleaning up after destructo-dog & did some of my nasty situps just for fun, plus checked on toes & elbow mobility...
Thursday Mar 1, 2007 #
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rhr:54 slept:8.5 weight:58.8kg
well. it snowed again. just a bit. We had snow-chomping fun on the 3AM Puppy Pee Break. In other news, I did reserve at the Vidette Lake gold-mining camp for the Sage Stomp in May, no power up there so kerosene lanterns & fireplaces are used. Very gold-mining-campish, I am very pleased. And we can canoe on the lake to balance D's upper & lower body wrokouts.
walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
puppy is stiff-upon-rising, in her left foreleg, no squeaking upon massage so we shall see, but I am gonna take it very easy on her today. She is stiff & reluctant to eat, I am jittery & flailing, uncertain what to cook or do (too much coffee?). Gonna grab hold and clean the place, clean the fridge, & then make a malaysian curry out of the stuff I get out of the fridge. hmmmm, yum, I think/hope.