Training Log Archive: Yukon King

0.5km/0.4km/0.4km, rests not quite what I like and I could feel like, but OK. Tired. Asian medley, quite O-food-like.

Really did have fun (too much fun) today - my one day of Christmas shopping each year occurred today - went up to Highgate, got the requisite pumpkin spice latte, pulled out The Hobbit (finished the obscure Moonstone and Tale of Two Cities so changed gears for a few days w/ Tolkien before going back to late 1800's authors with 1000+ pp of Sherlock Homes over Xmas) and joyously got into line at the post-office. Next to grocery to buy expensive cheeses and stand in another line, was so thrilled that I gratuitously scampered over to liquor store for dream-quality encounter with most perfect wine-person - I said the word "muscat" and got tour of every muscat ('classic Italian", "lovely spanish a leetle dry", "ooh, now thees ees VEEERY interesting modern Italian effort" and so on) in the store. I can hardly wait for the 26th to try it. ("Classic Italian, a leetle frizzante".... or something...)

0.4km/0.8km/0.4km - rests insufficient and I can tell. But what does not kill you, something or other blablabla... I think puppy's "flora" are waging all-out genocidal warfare against my "flora" inside me, kinda uncomfortable feeling. Now I have had time to view the details of her hygienic activities, I feel sorry I ever let her kiss me. Puppy kisses form now on will be less sharing but still meaningful. O-food is beef stew with yummy organic broccoli alongside, and a home-bake ficelle from ecco il pane with that fabulous balsamic vinegar dip from Summerland. 2 glasses water. Stat bikes got partly figured out still dunno how to adjust resistance but realistically that is not much of an issue.

Both Dennis and I appear to have joined the G-for-Gypsy weight-loss program...yoga today much better, did it to non-New Age combo of Na Leo, IZ, Imua, & Keali'i Reichel, very nice tho. Back still twinges a bit. Dealer's choice tofu for dinner tonight, maybe the yummy Malaysian curry w/ coconut milk, & since delivery comes today, any kind of fruit might appear in the fruit salad... How many lifts of a two-pound puppy constitutes a loggable activity?

Ok, thinkee time... not tracking "injuries" cuz mine would seem to skew O-peoples' injuries, since mine tend to correct real fast. More the story that seems to be most useful to me at this point, which I will log. Re canoe getting-out-of movement, Keith says gluteals need to be strengthened - warrior one (he will coach), shalabhasana (keep it IN gluteals & NOT in the spinal erectors, yeah I think I can feel that), and stat-bike (knees in same plane, hi-resistance, lo rpm, hhmm yeah, we'll see if I can do that on the bikes downstairs, ...yeah). Also vastus medialis, again bike action. OK bike visit obviously in order.

Gypsy did 4 yowl sessions none of which we responded to except by being awake, nnggh, sleep dep is not my forte... Today she is happy & FASCINATING. I am groggy, and, I think, dehydrated, which I am working on. Dennis went to a meeting. Gypsy is napping, I am listening to Na Leo and in the most dramatic part of Tale of Two Cities, just before the part that makes me bawl my tear ducts clear. Sunny, windy, maybe when G wakes up I will introduce her to a bit of yoga before going for a "walk" with her (her legs are like about 6 inches long, & attention span two seconds, so we're not goin' far. O-food ? Ha. ummmm, OK, I got walnuts, cream, parmesan, & some spinach-sun-dried tomato whole wheat agnolotti, we're eatin' that & it aint O-food...

yoga with amazingly little joy in it until I did my usual Tree of Humbleness (ie the "yes, look I can't do it except sort of half-way" type of vrikshasana) and felt a bit better. Strong tea, turn on Xmas lights, revisit Important Candy Discussion to broaden horizons.

0.4km/0.7km/0.6km, not quite the right rests in between but OK. Wandering neighborhood, returning faucet, getting pumpkin spice latte, looking at post office line & deciding NOT to mail my freakish globbet of hair to the cancer wig people, picking up contacts (invoked my new tough-girl haircut to ride that nasty glass elevator, oooh, phobias suck! but I survived in a sweaty sense) too tired to face stairs so cunningly walked home the long way thru the sunny woods - grey squirrel, LOTSA knockdowns from yesterdays storm, stream runs high but clear. O-food tonite amounts to vegan effort to use dollops of toban jian to encourage further assault on mounds of organic vegetables in house. Along with tofu, mmmmm. Gypsy arrives in about 5 hours, arrggghhh! 1.5 hours total ice on alternating hips, feels good.

0.4km/0.6km/0.6km/0.4km/0.5km w/ +20 minutes rest between. Felt so good! My hair is SHORT! Pumpkin spice latte and a nice seasonal walk up South Granville, best shopping street in ...Canada in my opinion, chocolate, shoes, pies, luxurious unguents, art, Italian clothes, fine cured hams, porcelain, shabu-shabu, the Old Stanley, cafes & coffeehouses, linen, posh groceries, posh housewares...then bank for puppy ransom, & coffee w/Steve downtown while inspecting gingerbread houses at the Hyatt. Huge storm in progress the whole time, wind, rain, the works. Oddly sour coq-au-vin will attempt to transformerize into more acceptable chicken cacciatore tonight. No hydration to speak of. Interesting ideas re butt exercise, gotta think a bit on it - stationary bike?

nnnghhnngh...ice cream for breakfast to compensate for what is either flare or forgotten meds last night. oooh, no experiments/swimming today. Ice everywhere. Drink water. Coq au vin in crockpot for dinner, along with some sort of assault on heap of organic vegetables.
Ice felt great, nothing nicer than half a day in bed covered w/ icepaks, mmmm... and by late afternoon flare subsides enuf (I notice flares now very rarely go over 2 days vs. 5-6 days previous to 2+ years ago, managing things better?) so I do a very slow version of the House-Gerbil-Dance - repopulated hall with all its junk now floor is cured, did up puppy's domain completely, & made up two frozen dinners (chili & spaghetti sauce) for our island retreat christmas in 2 weeks... 4 glasses water, how do people DO this hydration thing??! Was washing my hair for last time in prep for cancer-wig hair donation thing tomorrow when I realized I wasnt washing MY hair anymore, I was really washing someone else's hair. Cool. (MY hair is gonna be REALLY short)